Gareth Stevens Publishing: Weekly Reader: Series Emotional Health Issues (2008).
Series Emotioal Health Issues focuces on important topics. Developed in conclusion with a mental health consultant, each book addresses a different health issues and offers clear exlaination and pactical suggestions for seeking help. Case studies portray relevant ral-world situations, and present content in a reader-friendly format.
This series contains the following titles (Purchase these books online):
Abuse and Neglect
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Eating Disorders
Family Crises
Self-Harm and Suicide
Stress and Depression

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Family Crisis is about children who experience change and upheaval as they are growing up. Family Crises explores the problems that children face when their family faces crises, including divorce, domestic violence, child abuse, and debt. Reader will find out how teens can reach out for and find help. Armed with strategies for coping and support from people who care, children who have gone through painful family crises can find hope and healing. Author - Jillian Powell

Self-Harm and Suicide talks about the young people who purposely harm themselves by cutting, burning, scratching, or bruising their bodies. Self-injury is their secret way of dealing with strong feeling of anger, shame, frustration, and hopelessness. Some children and teens are overwhelmed by difficult emotions or events that they desperately seek a way out. They can chose to end their lives through suicide. This book written by Jillian Powell.

Stress and Depression by Jane Bingham is about teens that go through depression. When those feelings of sadness don't go away, the problem may be depression. This illness affects mood, thoughts, and behavior and can cause difficulties with eating, sleep, and schoolwork. Depression can have many causes - family problems, bullying, or the stress of everyday life. Reader will learn the symptoms and find out how to get help...
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Gareth Stevens: Weekly Reader: Series Simply Science (2008).
This fabulous series explores the very important subjects. How hot is the cor of the Sun? What slows down a space capsule as it nears the surface of Earth? Why do ships float? Students will find the answers to these questions and more in this fabulous Simply Science series. Fresh approach, colorful images make these books a great of source of the invaluable information for the young reader.
Topic in these titles correlate with NSES science curriculum standards, content reviewed by a science consultants, comic-strip illustrations present historical backgrounds and foster modern-day science connections...

This series includes the following titles: (Purchase theses books online.)
Communication
Energy
Land Transportation
Light and Color
Sea Transportation
Simple Machines
Space
Weather

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Sea Transportation by Gerry Bailey will teach how sea traveler has made possible to explore the world in all different ways. The world has been changed by sea transportation. From early settlers exploring new lands to today's hi-tech submarines, the reader with learn what boats made of, floating and sinking, traveling under the sea, fighting ships, and much more.

Light and Color: Discover Science Through Facts and Fun by Gerry Bailey and Steve Way is all about Light around us: from a bright sunny sky to the desk lamps we read by. This titles will teach about how different types of light work, and how light and color affect people's lives every day. Children will learn about light from the Sun, the telescope, nature's lights, electric light, about rainbows, pigments, colored glass and many more.

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Gareth Stevens: Weekly Reader: series Maps and Mapping By Susan Hoe explores the subjet of maps. Children will find there the cross-culture companions that use maps to show live in other parts of the world, topics that correlate to NCSS social studies standard, content developed in consultation with a reading specialist, and many more.

The Maps and Mapping series includes the following titles (Purchase these books online):
Environments
Habitats
Resources
Where We Live

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Environments by Susan Hoe published by Gareth Stevens (Weekly Reader) in 2008. This book explains why we need maps, how these maps teach us important facts about places. Children will learn that they can learn about places close to home or on other side of the world... This title shows to young readers that it can be exciting when a new building goes up in your town, especially if it is a movie theater or shops. The Environments explains that people have to be very careful about where they build new structures. Young reader will learn all about how maps can help us decide where a new building should go, and many more...

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Gareth Stevens: World Almanac Library: World History: Medieval Warfare series includes several titles that explore subject of the war. Children will learn why were medieval castles so difficult to capture. They will find the answers to the following questions: How did boys train to become knights? What were the deadliest weapons used during the Middle Ages? They will find out the knowledge about life in the Middle Ages,. This books contains the stunning images, diagrams, fascinating facts of the history.

Series Medieval Warfare includes the following books (Purchase these titles online):
Castles
Fighting a Battle
Knights and Armor
Weapons

The Weapons by Deborah Murrell (World Almanac Library, World History) published by Gareth Stevens in 2008. This book belongs to the series Medieval Warfare and explores the subject of the weapon. The Weapons includes information about bow and arrows, shields and armor, fighting machines an gunpowder, spears, and swords. Children will learn all they need to know about weapons... This book is fully illustrated with color photographs, maps and drawings, and is both entertaining and educational.

The Fighting a Battle by Deborah Murrell will explain children how battles were fought during the Middle Ages. They will learn what boys doing in the king's army, what strategies army used to attack a castle. This book explores the Middle Ages through its sea battles, land battles, the weapons... The young reader will find out about the knights who battled on horseback and the peasant soldiers who bravely fought to protect them. Children will discover the strategies used is the battle, such as those fought during the Crusades.

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