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  • The Pebble First Guide to Penguins

    Katy R. Kudela

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2009)
    Fuel emergent readers interest in the natural world with carefully leveled guides designed just for them Clear photos and range maps accompany easily digestible information in a field guide format Now even your youngest readers can become experts on their favorite topics
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  • Getting to Grips with Grammar

    Martin Manser

    Hardcover (Brighter Child, Aug. 5, 2003)
    The First Guide series of books helps explain the answers to the questions all kids have about important life skills all with an extra helping of humor for good measure! Don’t Slurp Your Soup! covers such topics as letter writing, e-mail etiquette, table manners, and good sportsmanship. Getting Down to Business tackles the topic of money—how to earn it, how to spend it, how to budget it, and how to save it. Getting to Grips With Grammar is a straightforward approach for teaching kids the basics such as parts of speech and how to use them properly. Getting to Grips with Grammar supplements school curriculum in language arts; Getting Down to Business supplements school curriculum in social studies; Don’t Slurp Your Soup supplements school curriculum in character education.
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  • Stamp Collecting

    Neill Granger

    Paperback (Millbrook Press, Oct. 1, 1994)
    Explains why stamps were created, notes their values, and offers advice on setting up, building, and displaying a collection, while relating some of the interesting facts and figures of stamp history
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  • My First Guide to Paper Airplanes

    Christopher Harbo

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2015)
    For years people have folded paper into planes. But the recent introduction of origami folds results in unique planes that truly take off. Step-by-step photo-illustrated instructions walk young readers through each stage. In no time they’ll be challenging one another to see whose plane flies farthest.
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  • The Pebble First Guide to Dinosaurs

    Sally Ann Lee

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, July 1, 2009)
    A basic field guide format introduces 13 dinosaurs. Includes color illustrations and range maps.
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  • My First Guide to Magic Tricks

    Norm Barnhart, Steven Joseph Charney

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Step-by-step instructions and photographs guide students through easy magic tricks. Readers will learn how to impress audiences with tricks that require minimal, inexpensive props such as a deck of cards or a single coin. Helpful tips ensure the success of even the youngest budding magicians.
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  • My First Guide to Robots

    Kathryn Clay

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2015)
    From huge industrial robots to robotic arms in space, our world is filled with robots. Give readers an up-close look at the history of robots, robot competitions, and how robots work. Fact boxes and full-color images of robots in action will engage young robot enthusiasts.
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  • Peterson First Guide to the Solar System

    Jay M. Pasachoff, Roger Tory Peterson, Wil Tirion

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 1, 1999)
    Budding astronomers--backyard or armchair--will learn not only where to look for the planets in the nighttime sky but also how space missions to the planets and their moons have increased our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere, and the moon.More than 100 spectacular color photographs, including views from the Hubble Space Telescope of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as the latest Voyager photographs of Neptune.The latest scientific information on other solar systems and extraterrestrial life, charts showing where to find the planets in the night sky, and much more.
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  • The Pebble First Guide to Snakes

    Katy R. Kudela

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2009)
    Fuel emergent readers interest in the natural world with carefully leveled guides designed just for them Clear photos and range maps accompany easily digestible information in a field guide format Now even your youngest readers can become experts on their favorite topics
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  • My First Guide to Duct Tape Projects

    Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt (author) Marne Ventura (author)

    Paperback (Raintree, March 8, 2018)
    The My First Guides series offers introductions to a broad variety of high-interest topics. Detailed step-by-step instructions supported by photos and illustrations ensure young readers will be successful with hands-on activities such as folding paper aeroplanes, constructing duct tape projects, and performing magic tricks. Close-up photos and fun facts introduce readers to military vehicles, fast vehicles, robots, and other topics that even the youngest readers are clamouring to learn more about. All topics are presented in a brief manner to support comprehension for young readers.

  • My First Guide to Military Vehicles

    Kathryn Clay

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2015)
    From giant aircraft carriers to speedy fighter jets, the military uses many vehicles to defend our country. Give young readers an up-close look at planes, tanks, and ships and the ways the military uses them. Charts, fact boxes, and full-color images of vehicles in action will entice budding military enthusiasts.
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  • A First Guide to Birdwatching

    Chris Harbard

    Hardcover (Oxford University Press, )
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