Americans come from many different backgrounds and cultures. What's yours like? Let's share and celebrate what makes our cultures special!
A look at different dwellings from around the world takes young readers on a tour of houses from such faraway places as China, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and other countries and teaches readers to say "house" in fifteen languages.
This book takes a simple look at city homes around the world, highlighting the diversity of homes that people live in. Homes featured include houses in Tokyo, US city apartments, UK terraced houses, and many more. Throughout the book, simple leveled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parent…
Simple text and photographs describe life in small towns including its neighborhoods, shops, and parks.
Describes the jobs and activities within a suburban community, including delivering the mail, working at the YMCA, and fighting fires.
Together with "People and their Needs", this book forms a series of two books providing a coherent course for GCSE geography with clearly explained concepts and geographical ideas. This title explores the interrelationships between people and their environment . Up to date case studies have been selected on a variety of scales from local to worldwide and there is ample scope for pupils to demon…
Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important honey bees are.
Isabelle is thrilled when she finds out that her beastly neighbor, Kenny, will be going away on vacation for a week with his family. Then Kenny comes down with chicken pox -- and he has to stay at Isabelle's house for the week She might be tempted to feel bad for Kenny -- if he wasn't being his usual beastly self. With the help of the Disney Girls and a little magic, she decides to give Kenny a…
Isabelle's next-door neighbor Kenny has been a total Beast for as long as she can remember. But now he's gone too far: he secretly videotaped the Disney Girls singing and dancing and acting silly at Isabelle's slumber party. Isabelle vows to get the tape back, but how will she ever get past the Beast?