Books in Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: Prehistoric World series

Describes how various animals use their skin to help them hide and fight off other animals, including chameleons, frogs, and fish.

Takes a look at the things that the Presidents do as part of their job, where they work from, and what they do when they are not working.

Describes how various animals use their teeth to chew, bite, and find food, including beavers, snakes, and sharks.

Describes how scientists determine whether a fossil is from a dinosaur or from some other type of animal.

Simple text and colorful pictures describe what rain is, when it can fall, and the good things rain can do.

With exciting brilliant photography readers discover the life cycle of living things. Learn how chicks grow up to become roosters or hens, how some sharks come from eggs while others do not, how some turtles' hatchlings find their way to the ocean, and much more.

Presents information on the food served at the White House, the favorite dishes of some presidents, and the chefs that work there to feed the Presidential family and their guests.

Explains what mammals are, using monkeys, wolves, and cheetahs as examples.

Describes how current methods of trash disposal lead to pollution, and suggests how reducing, reusing, and recycling materials can lead to less waste becoming trash.

Introduces the ecological features of a rain forest and the different types of animals that live there, including jaguars, sloths, and red-eyed tree frogs.

With lively content and colorful photos, "Kids Like Me" celebrates global diversity and the universal things all children have in common whether they eat with forks or chopsticks, travel to school on a bus or a boat, or live in a big city apartment building or a mud house in Nigeria.

Explains what sunshine is and why it is important to plants, animals, and people.