New Releases by JENNIFER DUSSLING

Offers facts about lightning, the planets, volcanoes, tornadoes, and sharks.

Describes the equipment used on a building site and for fighting fires, various types of automobiles and airplanes and how they developed, and the lives of pirates and the cowboys of the Old West.

Este libro ilustrado para niños muestra algunos insectos cazando y comiendo a otros. Se incluyen avispas, mantis religiosa, hormigas, libélulas, chinches. También habla de las defensas naturales de algunos insectos.

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math. All the kids get bigger allowances than Marco. And they do fewer chores! It''s just not fair! How can Marco convince his Dad to give him the raise he knows he deserves? With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Bar Graphs)

Solve kid-sized dilemmas and mysteries with the Science Solves It! series. These fun books for kids ages 5–8 blend clever stories with real-life science. Why did the dog turn green? Can you control a hiccup? Is that a UFO? Find the answers to these questions and more as kid characters dive into physical, life, and earth sciences. While telling ghost stories at camp, Peter secretly uses a magnet to make a trunk slam shut and a spoon move across a table. Books in this perfect STEM series will help kids think like scientists and get ahead in the classroom. Activities and experiments are included in every book! (Level Two: Science topic: Magnets)

Solve kid-sized dilemmas and mysteries with the Science Solves It! series. These fun books for kids ages 5–8 blend clever stories with real-life science. Why did the dog turn green? Can you control a hiccup? Is that a UFO? Find the answers to these questions and more as kid characters dive into physical, life, and earth sciences. Colors on the loose! Annie and Mike are making a box fort when a bunch of little rainbows mysteriously appear on the family room wall. Are they from a sprinkler? A gas puddle? A necklace? Annie and Mike need scientific detective skills to solve this rainbow mystery! Books in this perfect STEM series will help kids think like scientists and get ahead in the classroom. Activities and experiments are included in every book! (Level Two; Science topic: Rainbows)

Introduces the wonders of electricity and lightning, including a look at what different cultures once believed lightning to be and how Benjamin Franklin proved what it really is.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Inside are fun facts about the rocks you will find, a rock ID chart, special write-in notebook pages, and lots of stickers!

Several dinosaur hunters went on an expedition in South America hoping to find fossils of birds from the time of the dinosaurs. What they found instead were hundreds of fossils of dinosaur eggs, some with un-hatched baby dinosaurs inside. This was something that had never been found before! Here is a fascinating look at dinosaur egg fossils and dinosaurs in general, written in accessible language so kids can read it all by themselves.

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math. How, in a boat that only holds 100 pounds, can a boy transport himself, a dog, and assorted gear that weigh much more than that? With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Weight).

This easy-to-read guide to the solar system is an ideal introduction for young skywatchers, with up-to-date information and full-color illustrations.

Talk about a BIG catch! The 25-foot squid hauled in by a fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand in December 1997 was one of the most amazing stories of that year! Here''s a fascinating look at the giant squid, cephalopods in general, and the implications of this extra-ordinary discovery--written in conjunction with The American Museum of Natural History.

Describes different kinds of gargoyles, how they are created, and how they function as waterspouts.

After Kiki hears a noise in the woods, her imagination runs wild?much to her embarrassment when the ?truth? finally emerges from the bushes.Jennifer Dussling lives in Highland Park, NJ.Lyndon Mosse lives in New York City.

Describes the jobs which various kinds of trucks and other construction equipment do on a work site.

An introduction to the physical characteristics and habits of snakes.

Love is in the air when an adventurous young page delivers the king's valentine to his queen. Full color. 25 jewel stickers.

Pourquoi les élèves prennent-ils tout de suite en grippe Lucie, la nouvelle ? Pourquoi est-elle si lunatique, pourquoi la belle maison où elle habite, et la maison de poupée dans sa chambre, semblent-elles si étranges ? Armez-vous de courage et découvrez vous aussi peu à peu le secret de la mystérieuse Lucie !

Murray, an apprentice fairy godmother, is forced to save all the magic wands after they are stolen from the other godmothers at their annual convention in New York City.

When he wakes up one morning, Fozzie cannot find his fuzzy slippers, so he calls on his friend Kermit the Detective to help.

Whatever became of real-life dinosaurs? How did they live, breed, and care for their young? Find out in this fascinating, easy-to-read book--with full-color photos from The Lost World movie.

Grab a flashlight and pull the covers over your head! Here are two more easy-to-read, just-spooky-enough stories to make you shiver and shriek until the very end. "Likely to pique many a young reader''s interest....appealingly creepy...". -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children''s BooksBugsy loves squishing bugs. But when he messes with the wrong bug -- a magical golden insect -- he wakes up in the morning with a bug''s-eye view of things!

Grab your magnifying glass and help Kermit find out who walked off with Fozzie's favorite bunny slippers. All Aboard Reading Level 2.

Skye likes his name, but the kids at school make jokes about it. What can he do?

Lucy, the new girl at school, invites a classmate to play with her unusual dollhouse.