Books with author Lynda Arnaz

From washing our hands to brushing our teeth, the ways people stay clean are easy enough for even young kids to do. With a fun, encouraging tone, the main content of this book focuses on the age-appropriate ways readers can be responsible for keeping their own bodies clean. Including cooperating with parents, this book is written for new readers' cognitive development and reading comprehension development. Full-color photographs support the text and provide real-life examples to inspire readers to keep clean.

Traveling to live in a new country can be terrifying, especially to a child. Leaving behind family, friends, and places you know and love is something everyone can relate to. In this book, readers board a boat with an immigrant child going to the United States for the first time. The first-person narration introduces readers to Ellis Island and the many immigrants coming to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s, including their reasons for doing so. Historical images and fact boxes add context to this important social studies topic.

Shortly after the birth of the United States, many people headed west to settle the new territory of the frontier. They journeyed by wagon for months on end and faced bad weather, sickness, and fears of hostile Native Americans. Historians know a lot about these wagon train journeys because of the many diaries kept by travelers! Readers meet a young wagon train traveler and, through this first-person account, learn about life on the Oregon Trail. Informational fact boxes add historical context to this narrative while images from the time period enhance the main content.

For the native peoples of the Great Plains, history is broken into two periods: before horses arrived and after. The Spanish introduced horses to these native groups around 1540, and their lives were heavily impacted. No longer did they have to hunt buffalo on foot. They could ride the speed of the herd through parts of modern-day Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and more. Readers learn much more about the lifestyles of the native peoples of the Great Plains, including their societal structure, relationship with early European settlers, and more. Historical images and full-color photographs illustrate the main content while fun fact boxes add even more social studies information.

All family pets need to be fed, given water, groomed, possibly walked, or simply played with. These can be great jobs for younger kids just starting to be given some responsibilities. Complemented by full-color photographs, the main text describes the ways pre-K readers can take care of different kinds of common pets, from dogs to birds. Age-appropriate, relatable examples inspire readers to offer their help while language written for beginning readers allows them to navigate the content with confidence and increasing reading independence.