Books published by publisher Pacific Learning

Jump into literacy with an exciting new series of nonfiction, multicultural leveled readers. Brought to you by a team of academic intervention specialists who know what children need for language and literacy development. Hopscotch books engage children with their homegrown look, reminiscent of a family photo album. Children are excited to read and talk about the familiar characters and places featured in the photographs.This series features:

Jump into literacy with an exciting new series of nonfiction, multicultural leveled readers. Brought to you by a team of academic intervention specialists who know what children need for language and literacy development. Hopscotch books engage children with their homegrown look, reminiscent of a family photo album. Children are excited to read and talk about the familiar characters and places featured in the photographs.This series features:

Kayla spent the last of her money buying that battered old lamp, and she can't understand why someone as rich and important as Mr. Moneygrubber would want it from her. Then she meets the genie -- and starts getting EVERYTHING she's ever wished for. Of course, such luck is too good to be true, and when she finds out she has to pay for it all, she needs to get rid of the lamp -- and fast. Luckily, greedy Mr. Moneygrubber is happy to take it from her, and Kayla finds out her own life is pretty good after all.Text Type: Fantasy FictionTheme/Topic: Adventure, Argument, Opinion, and Persuasion

Jump into literacy with an exciting new series of nonfiction, multicultural leveled readers. Brought to you by a team of academic intervention specialists who know what children need for language and literacy development. Hopscotch books engage children with their homegrown look, reminiscent of a family photo album. Children are excited to read and talk about the familiar characters and places featured in the photographs.This series features:

The tomb of Tutankhamen - Carter was sure that the boy pharaoh was buried somewhere in the Valley of the Kings. But where? Time and money were running out and he had found nothing...until the waterboy saw some stone steps, leading down. Wild with excitement, Carter began to dig. Was this the entrance to the tomb, sealed for two thousand years?Text Type: ExpositoryTheme/Topic: Human History, Art and Music

Jump into literacy with an exciting new series of nonfiction, multicultural leveled readers. Brought to you by a team of academic intervention specialists who know what children need for language and literacy development. Hopscotch books engage children with their homegrown look, reminiscent of a family photo album. Children are excited to read and talk about the familiar characters and places featured in the photographs.This series features:

Steven is used to getting pushed around by school bully Meatball. Then one day he meets self-described genius Neil Katz. Neil invents a machine that will stop the bullies once and for all -- by shrinking them! After Steven sees the machine in action, he tries to stop Neil. Unfortunately, Neil decides Steven is against him too, and shrinks him as well. Eventually, Steven convinces Neil to return everyone to their normal size, and while doing so, learns an important lesson about sticking up for himself and courage.Text Type: Fantasy FictionTheme/Topic: Conflict and Challenge, Physical Science

Beagle and his friends are helping their teacher, Ms. Olesky, clean up a local pond. As they work, the friends are bothered by an older boy with a scary, sharky smile. Then Wesley falls in the water and discovers a silver dollar. When an elderly neighbor helps Wesley get cleaned up, he learns she has just been robbed. The friends put two and two together and learn the boy with the smile of a shark did the deed. With a little help from Ms. Olesky, they return the stolen property and make everything right.Text Type: Realistic Fiction, MysteryTheme/Topic: Conflict and Challenge, Adventure