Books in Emergency Response series

SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics will introduce readers to challenging content related to the job duties required of our elite police and military forces. This 32-page title helps build reading comprehension skills with engaging visual aids, interesting informational sidebars, before- and after-reading activities, and more.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In Police: Protect and Serve, young readers will examine what it takes to help keep everyone safe. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this title gives an in-depth view into the training, politics, equipment, and more that it takes to become a police officer. With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In Hazmat: Disposing Toxic Materials, young readers will learn what it takes to be a part of the team that is responsible for cleaning up hazardous materials. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this title offers readers an in-depth look at the training, techniques, and equipment these brave men and women use on a daily basis.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In Firefighters: Battling Smoke and Flames, young readers will learn what it takes to be a first responder. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this book give an in-depth look into the rigorous training, dangerous conditions, equipment, and commitment of these brave individuals.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In FEMA: Prepare, Respond, and Recover, young readers will learn about the agency that responds to natural disaster relief. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this title offers an inside look into how FEMA offers help to people in need.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In Bomb Disposal: Diffusing Danger, young readers will learn exactly what bomb disposal experts do every day around the world. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this title engages young readers to understand the emergency response field. With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

In Search and Rescue: Imminent Danger, young readers will learn what it takes to be a part of this elite team of emergency responders. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this title gives an in-depth look into the training, equipment, and missions that rescuers come across―and what these brave men and women do to help save the lives of others.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

Police have the duty to uphold and enforce the laws of the town, district, state, or even the country in which they work. Police serve alongside firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, as first responders. They risk their lives every day in dangerous situations to protect the public from crime. Learn all about the training, ranks, politics, equipment, and skills needed to be a police officer, as well as the history of how the police force was established. This book will allow students to analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

In EMT: Crisis Care for Injuries and Illness, young readers will learn what it takes to be a first responder. Featuring 32 pages of real-life photographs, a glossary, websites to visit, and more, this book gives students an inside look at the intense training, commitment, and dedication of these highly trained individuals who save lives every day.With vivid photos and engaging text, the titles in the Emergency Response series offer high-interest topics for students in grades 4–8. Readers will understand the dedication, expertise, and risks undertaken by the brave individuals who protect our U.S. citizens at home. Readers will discover the historical aspects of each job through timelines and gain reading comprehension skills with before- and after-reading activities, and more.

A SWAT team is called in when criminal emergencies become too dangerous for regular police officers. Although most SWAT team members are police officers, they are trained in the use of powerful firearms and military tactics, and only used in very high-risk situations. The skills, equipment, training, and courage of these individuals are all discussed in this book, as well as how SWAT teams originated and have become one of our biggest defenses against terrorist attacks. This book will allow students to determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

Firefighters are first responders. When someone calls for help, firefighters will often be the first ones to arrive. With more the 350,000 fires in the United States each year, firefighters must be ready at all times of the day and night to protect and save lives, homes, and land from the devastation a fire causes. The rigorous training, dangerous conditions, equipment, and commitment of these brave individuals are all detailed in this book. Next time you hear the roar of a siren, stop and think about these life-saving heroes who protect us every day! This book will allow students to cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

FEMA stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Learn all about how FEMA responds to earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes, and brings relief and help to the people in need. During a tragedy FEMA responds by helping people find lost family members, friends, and even pets. Offering loans to rebuild and counseling victims, this federal agency is a life saving tool to people in need. This book will allow students to refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.