This carefully selected Grade 2 collection is based on correlations to grade-level Common Core State Standards and will introduce students to a variety of fiction and nonfiction content-area topics as well as exposure to an array of complex text and text structures. Featuring library bound books, each is filled with fun, colorful illustrations, easy-to-read informational text, and exciting topics that will keep early learners interested in reading more! Titles include: Footprints on the Moon: Poems About Space (library bound); The Human Calculator (library bound); Escape from Pacaya (library bound); Families Through Time (library bound); A Family's Story (library bound); I'll Lead the Way! (library bound); Cuckoo, cuckoo: A Folktale from Mexico (library bound); Immigration Stories (library bound); You Can Count on Me! (library bound); The Lonely Penguin's Blog (library bound); Martin Luther King Jr. (library bound); Coming to America (library bound); Mapping Our Nation (library bound); Mapping Our World (library bound); Money and Trade in Our Nation (library bound); You and the U.S. Government (library bound); You and the Law (library bound); Earthquakes! (library bound); Tornadoes and Hurricanes! (library bound); Our Earth (library bound); The Solar System (library bound); Step into the Rainforest (library bound); Staying Healthy (library bound); George Washington (library bound); and Count Me In! What's for Lunch? (library bound). (GRL ranges H-O).

Amanda and her alligator have lots of fun playing together and surprising each other, but when Amanda's grandfather buys her a panda, Alligator must learn to make new friends.

This "I Spy" book takes children through a spooky old house at night where they search for spooky items. Children look for bats, lizards, frogs, owls and tombstones. From its rickety gate to its cobwebbed attic, this haunted house contains 13 spooky environments. Readers will marvel at Walter Wick's beautifully executed photographs as they travel through each enchanting scene and solve the rhyming riddles, reading the story along the way. Over two million "I Spy" books have been sold to date.

On this form you can view Animal ears and whiskers too. Lots of animals to be found, Shapes and colors ail around. Look at beaks and snouts with me. Make some more for us to see. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC) Parenting Honorable Mention, Reading Magic Award

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs.

Franny's faithful lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For any regular scientist, there is only one way to get the device out -- um...make that two ways. But Franny K. Stein is no ordinary scientist, so she concocts her own way to get the device back and save her friend. With her miniaturization machine, Franny shrinks herself to the size of a pin and goes on a field trip like no other...through the body of a ticking time-dog! Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!