Gareth Stevens Publishing is the leading publisher of the children's library books.

Series Math In Our World published by Gareth Stevens Publishing in 2008.
Weekly Reader Leveled Readers is a fabulous combination of fact and fiction, introducing math concepts aligned to the early elementary curriculum and showing children how math is important in real-life. Math In Our World series has been carefully designed to provide a gradual progression of the reading and math skills.
Special features include: Fun stories in settings that relate math to the real world; full-color photos and illustrations; developed in consultation with math and reading curriculum specialists; a glossary to promote reading and math comprehension.

The following books are available in English and Spanish:
-Working With Numbers in the News
-Multiply to Make Party Plans
-Using Division Facts in the Garden
-Exploring Solid Figures on the Web
-Using Division at Sports Comp
-Pizza Parts: Fractions!
-Probability With Fun and Games
-Measuring at the Pond

Introducing selected titles:

Using Division at Sports Camp by Linda Bussell published in 2008. This educational book contains 4 chapters that teach the math in engaging and entertaining manner. Fully illustrated, this book invites to follow the team leaders as they use division to be sure that children can join the fun...
Linda Bussell has written and designed books, supplemental learning materials, educational games, and software programs for children and young adults. She lives in San Diego, California.


Probability With Fun and Games by Linda Bussell is a fascinating journey into the world of the Game Day at Valley Elementary School. Children play games after school: with coins, number cubes, and spinners. This book will teach that CERTAIN is something that will always happen; FAIR is when every outcome has an equal chance of happening.. Children learn the probability experiments, they get ideas for more games, they learn math...



Working With Numbers by Linda Bussell is a book about Sarah who is writing a story about national park for her school newspaper. It involves many numbers... Sarah is doing mountain math, counting creatures... She organizes her facts in charts, graphs and time lines.
Using Division Facts in the Garden by Linda Bussell is a story about a garden club which planning a vegetable garden. This book invites to join the students as they use division to determine how much lumber they will need... This book is both entertaining and educational, and contains the following chapters:
1. Fences First!
2. Garden Division.
3. Post It!
4. Harvest Time.
What Did You Learn?

Measuring at the Pond by Linda Bussell is all about the plants and animals, and math. This book invites the readers to a field trip. This is the story about students who visit the local pond and area around it, who look for different plants and insects, and pretend they are scientists. Children will record what they see, and then they will write reports about their findings to share with the class...



Multiply to Make Party Plans by Linda Bussell is about the chorus club that is planning a picnic at a park - 36 people at the party. There will be 30 students and 6 adults. Reader will see how they use multiplication to figure out whether they have enough desserts, sandwiches, and drinks for all. They will figure out how much food to buy to make 24 turkey sandwiches, how much bread and cheese... Children will decorate for the party and have games and fun. And it is all about math.




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Series - Energy For Today published by Gareth Stevens Publishing (Weekly Reader) in 2008.
Global climate change and the growing energy crisis are key issue facing the wold now. Energy For Today examines fossil fuels and the alternate energy sources that may light our homes or power our cars in the future. This series includes:
Content correlated to science curriculum standards;
Leveled text reviewed by a reading consultant and a science curriculum consultant;
Colorful photos and illustrations that math the text.

These books are available in English and Spanish:
-Ethanol and Other New Fuels
-Nuclear Power
-Oil, Gas, and Coal
-Solar Power
-Water Power
-Wind Power

Introducing selected titles:

Oil, Gas, and Coal by Tea Benduhn is the source of information about very important subject. Our lives would be very different without gas, oil, and coal. These fossil fuels help heat our homes, turn on our lights, and power our cars and trucks. But hey also damage our environment.
This book will teach children how we use these energy sources today, and find out how we might use them with cleaner sources of energy in the future.
Tea Benduhn writes books and edits a magazine. She lives in Wisconsin. The walls of her home are lined with bookshelves. She loves to read more than to watch TV...

Water Power by Tea Benduhn is about a dependable resource to making electricity - water power. You saw the crashing ocean waves or a rushing waterfall. It is water power in action. People have used flowing water to do work for centuries. Children will learn why water is such a great source of energy and the different ways we might use it in the future.



Solar Power by Tea Benduhn explores the following subjects: what is solar power, sources of today, how solar power works, solar power in the future, and more. The Sun is our greatest source of energy. Without its light and heat, life on Earth would not exist. People have used the Sun's energy for centuries. They used it to heat their homes and cook meals. We use the Sun's power, called solar power, to make electricity. Children will find out about the different ways we convert the Sun's energy to electricity and the exciting plans for solar power in the future.


Nuclear Power by Tea Benduhn is all about atoms. Sometimes big things come in small packages. Atoms are the smallest form of matter, but they can release huge amount of energy. Today, about 20% of our electricity comes from nuclear power. Children will learn how we use nuclear power and how scientists are working to make it a safer energy source for the future. This book explores the following questions and subjects: What is nuclear power, sources of energy, how nuclear power work, nuclear power of tomorrow, and more.


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Series Nature's Monsters published by Gareth Stevens Publishing, Weekly Reader in 2008.
These titles - Insects & Spiders - take the readers on a trip of discovery into the fascinating world of the mini monsters all around us. Full-color artwork give to reader opportunity to explore the unique features of these exotic creatures. The detailed text introduces their lives and habits.

This series contains the following titles (Purchase these books online):
Dangerous Insects & Spiders
Flying Insects
Giant Spiders & Insects
Pests & Parasites
Poisonous Spiders
Social Insects

Introducing selected titles:

Pests & Parasites by Per Christiansen features the tiny, sometimes life-threatening insects and creatures that creep and crawl on human skin, such as ticks and lice, bedbugs and dust mites... Children will learn about aphid, aquatic leech, bedbug, kissing bug, chigger mite, Colorado potato beetle, dust mite, hard tick, human louse, chigoe flea, scabies mite, termite, and an African armored cricket...

Poisonous Spiders by Per Christiansen explores the fascinating world of the most feared creatures from all over the world, including the black widow spider, the funnel web spider, Indian ornamental tarantula, and the trapdoor spider. This fully-illustrated book gives fascinating information about spiders' size, appearance, about countries where spiders live, how they bite, and many more interesting facts.

Constrictor Snakes - Nature Monsters: Reptiles & Amphibians series - by Per Christiansen features cool-blooded creatures that slither and swim. It is anaconda, python, boa constrictor, dumeril's boa, java wart snake and many more... This book is an introduction to the world of there fascinating creatures. This title is fully illustrated with color pictures-artwork and maps. The great text provides detailed and little-known information.

Terrifying & Ugly Creatures - Nature Monsters: Water Creatures - by Per Christiansen invites to the world of the following creatures: angler-fish and conger eel, gray ref shark and hatchetfish, lamprey and oar-fish, stone-fish and sturgeon... This amazing and frightening underwater sea monsters fascinate young readers. The book is full of the stunning full-color artwork; an engaging text provides information that every child would like to know.

Armored & Spiked Dinosaurs - Nature Monsters: Dinosaurs - by Per Christiansen is all about prehistoric creatures: scelidosaurus, kentrosaurus, ankylosaurus, gastonia, minmi, nodosaurus, sauropelta, saichania, struthiosaurus, dacentrurus... This book takes young reader on a journey of discovery into the world of the creatures that dominated Earth many millions of years ago. The book is illustrated with dazzling color artwork; text explains how these animals survived long ago.

Prehistoric Beasts - Nature Monsters: Dinosaurs - by Per Christiansen explores the world of the fearsome prehistoric creatures that lived millions of years ago. This book is about the strange creatures such as the woolly mammoth, the giant moa, smilodon, giant deer, marsupial sabertooth, and many more. The book contains an engaging text and dazzling color artwork.


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