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Explores an individual's relationship to family, friends, and even pets.

Presents wacky, fanciful explanations--some with a kernel of truth--for rules that parents impose on their children, including reasons for eating vegetables, not jumping on the bed, and combing one's hair.

Presents a child's perspective on the Civil War covering industrialization in the North, agriculture and slavery in the South, and daily life in both areas.

Explains what a hospital is, what happens there, and when a patient can go home.

Designed to enhance children's interest in reading, this cookbook features recipes for various food eaten by characters in children's literature.

A collection of poems and antique photographs depicting children of many different nationalities.

Explains for young children how to eat healthily, covering such topics as vitamins and nutrients, calories, digestion, and the importance of eating breakfast.

Describes the key elements and procedures of guided reading; provides a list of books, arranged by title and by level; and includes practical suggestions to help teachers implement guided reading in kindergarten through third grade classrooms.

Multiple-choice questions about the right thing to do in different situations.

A collection of inspirational poems, prayers, and other writings grouped, "For the day, For the home, For the earth, and For the night.

A collection of speeches and essays in which award-winning author Katherine Paterson shares her passion for reading and explains where she draws her inspiration from.

Explains why reading aloud to young children has such an impact on their ability to read and their entire lives, and also discusses male readers, phonics, and the three secrets of reading.

Provides an overview of economics and money, including earning, spending, saving, checks and credit cards, banks, and the history of money.

Draws from first-person accounts, journals, interviews and other primary sources to tell the true stories of over seventy young people from a variety of cultures who played a role in the making of the United States, including explorers, patriots, rebels, slaves, miners, and activists.

Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.