Books with author Tom Greve

While reading Angel Island, students will learn about the history of the island, as well as the immigrants who passed through in hopes of becoming American citizens. This 32-page title uses a variety of teaching components to help young readers strengthen their reading comprehension skills. The Symbols of Freedom series will allow students to explain events or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause versus effect. Each title features photographs, maps, and informational sidebars that work with a Show What You Know section to help readers build their understanding of the topic.

A Listen to Rock 'n' Roll introduces young readers to one of the most loved genres in the history of music. With beautiful real-life photographs, informative text, comprehension and extension activities, and much more, this title gives students the opportunity to explore rock 'n' roll greats, and how rock music developed into a cultural phenomenon first in the United States of America and later across the globe.The Art and Music series introduces young learners to some of the most moving genres of music while supporting an emphasis on increasing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) content for young learners. Each 24-page title in this series 24-page title in this series allows students to refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Plants, trees, grass, or anything that grows from soil is just as alive as we are! Botanists study the life, and biology of plants. Their work plays an important role in understanding the complex relationships among Earth’s plants, as well the relationship between plants, animals, and people. Their research helps us to understand the beauty that surrounds us and their work helps to preserve and protect all the plants that keep us breathing, and help feed the world. This title will allow students to support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.• Diagrams• Bold keywords with phonetic glossary• Text based questions• Content sidebars

Those who study space, the planets and stars, and the infinite realms beyond our own solar system are astronomers. They play an important role in understanding our Earth, and its place in a universe so vast, it can sometimes defy our understanding. Modern astronomy allows people to see places no human can ever expect to touch, at distances no human could ever expect to travel. It also begs the question: could there be life on another planet? Learn all about the early astronomers and the techniques and tools they used to further the science of astronomy. This title will allow students to understand that natural objects exist from the very small to the immensely large.• Diagrams• Bold keywords with phonetic glossary• Text based questions• Content sidebars