Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. They are ideal for children who are ready to read on their own.

With super-simple concepts about the sun, planets, comets, and more, each spread features the wonderful illustrations of Mattia Cerato along with rhyming text that delights while it instructs. With the sun as your guide, meet Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the rest of the planet gang, as you travel further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system. Each planet has one funny identifying feature that will help kids remember a fascinating fact about it. For instance, Earth is wearing goggles. Why? Because it has lots and lots of water! Little Genius Solar System reads like a fun story, making it the perfect introduction to our night sky.

Develop advanced reading skills with 180 Days(TM) Reading, 2nd Edition, a workbook of engaging and effective daily practice activities. This easy-to-use sixth grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Encourage students to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. The 2nd Edition of this activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The new edition also reinforces the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and interesting topics that children will enjoy. The daily reading practice is ideal for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prepare for middle school. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.

New! Build advanced reading skills with engaging and meaningful daily practice activities designed for seventh grade students.

180 Days(TM) Reading for Seventh Grade:

• Offers learning activities that boost confidence with reading and writing
• Incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support quick and easy
• Includes a complete answer key to assess and diagnose student understanding

Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and fascinating topics that children will love. The daily reading practice in this activity book is great for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on these daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The standards-based activities are perfect for classroom or at-home learning. The activities can also be used for differentiation and to address learning gaps.

Libraries are vibrant and vital centers of community where people go to connect to the world, technology, information, stories, and each other. They're also often the most fun place to be when at school! This book encourages an early love for going to the library with delightful illustrations and a fun, rhyming story about one child's first trip.

When Peter wants to know more about dinosaurs, his best friend, Lara, knows just where to go. With card in hand, they head for the library where they find just the right book. Then, it's story time!!!

Each spread features one or more library vocabulary words such as alphabetical, author, barcode, catalog, database, scanner, nonfiction, and more--with their definitions on the last spread. Get kids excited about reading, researching, self-directed exploration, and more with Let's Go to the Library!

Neigh, baa, oink,
cluckety cluck, and moo!
Merry Barnyard Christmas
from all of us to you.

It's Christmas Eve at the farm, and all the barnyard animals are taking turns sneaking out of the barn. At the old pine tree, they make an animal ladder. But why?

The delightful answer to that question makes this an instant classic that parents and children alike will love reading during the holidays and all year round. Featuring an amazing vertical spread of all the animals teetering next to a giant pine tree, simple counting fun, and delightful rhyming text, Barnyard Christmas will warm readers' hearts as they giggle all the way!

Children love construction sites, and they love learning new words! And that's the premise behind Construction Site!, the second book in our STEAM Stories series. With bright, active, and energetic illustrations featuring construction vehicles and workers and simple rhyming text, this book follows along as two classmates watch their old school get torn down and the new one get built. Written with preschool curriculum vocabulary words in mind, each page features one or more engineering term, such as demolish, excavator, debris, architect, foundation, pulley, and more, all of which are defined on the last spread. Relatable and entertaining, the story ends with the classmates walking in their new building for the first day of school while waving goodbye to the construction workers!

This fun read-aloud mash-up follows the rhyme and rhythm of the original toe-play nursery rhyme, while also paying irreverent tribute to Clement Clarke Moore's classic poem The Night Before Christmas.

It's Christmas Eve, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring . . . except for the Little Piggy, who runs out the door because she knows Santa is coming! Soon all the other piggies are awake, causing enough mischief and mayhem to make this one visit Santa won't soon forget.

This Little Piggy's Night Before Chistmas captures all the anticipation and exuberant excitement of the holidays! Full of pure silliness and joy, children will relish in reading about five little piggies who are just as excited about Christmas as they are.

And This Little Piggy Said, Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!

It's been more than fifty years since humans stepped foot on the moon. NASA's Artemis mission is not just to put humans back on the moon--including the first woman and the first person of color. Its goal is to keep them there for deeper space exploration into the solar system than ever before. Next stop: Mars!

It's been more than fifty years since humans stepped foot on the moon. NASA's Artemis mission is not just to put humans back on the moon--including the first woman and the first person of color. Its goal is to keep them there for deeper space exploration into the solar system than ever before. Next stop: Mars!

A first architecture book for little geniuses!

Architects are artists
and scientists as well.
They design the spaces where we
shop, learn, visit, and dwell.

From drawing houses with crayons to building with Legos and blocks, children are born architects! And Little Genius: Architecture is a child's first look at the incredible work that architects do. Each spread features one or more amazing buildings or architectural feats, such as the Taj Mahal, the Chrysler Building, the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Mosque of Djenné, and more!!! Also, a few terms such as Gothic and Art Deco are introduced without weighing down the lilting, rhyming text. With dynamic artwork by illustrator and architect Jomike Tejido, children will enjoy reading and re-reading this educational and fun book!

Is there life on other planets?

That burning question is fueling NASA's Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) mission. Powerful telescopes, satellites, and space probes are revealing a universe more immense and diverse than ever imagined. SETI continues its quest to not only find evidence of the building blocks of life but also proof of intelligence in the great beyond.

Life on Earth could not exist without the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe will help scientists learn about our solar system's only star.

A fantastic and age-appropriate journey around the world for our youngest explorers! With super-simple concepts about continents, animals, oceans, countries, the world's natural wonders, and man-made marvels, Little Genius World Atlas delights as it entertains. With Earth as your guide, little learners are introduced to the oceans, each continent, and even ecosystems with wonderful illustrations and gentle, rhyming text. Each continent features a fact or two along with fun illustrations of the animals and attractions that make the continents distinctive.

Life on Earth could not exist without the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe will help scientists learn about our solar system's only star.

Did you know that an average person sheds up to 500 million skin cells a day? These unbelievably weird things about the human body that seem too crazy to be true, but are Whether amazing, silly, or just plain gross, these peculiar and fascinating things about the human body will surprise and delight fun-fact lovers of all ages.