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Despite being completely nonfiction, this title reads with all the suspense and mystery of any great novel. The story begins in 1996, when Karen Lips travels to a high mountain forest in Panama to study the golden frogs that live there. Upon discovering a large amount of dead frogs, Karen collects a few of them and later learns that a fungus is to blame for the frogs' death. Over the next decade, Project Golden Frog is launched and put into motion in order to collect and protect Panama's golden frogs until the fungus can be understood and controlled.

Details the characteristics of flowers, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Details the characteristics of leaves, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Details the characteristics of roots, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Details the characteristics of seeds, how they grow, and the purpose they serve toward creating new plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Details the characteristics of stems, how they grow, and the purpose they serve on plants. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Explains how storms form, where they strike, and what makes them so powerful. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Simple text and color illustrations introduce young readers to the five senses and how they are used.

Highlights the physical characteristics of various animals that make their homes in the ocean. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

Uses a question and answer format to teach young readers about animal adaptations such as hibernation, migration, camouflage, underground hiding, and the use of their poisonous toxins.

Uses a question and answer format to teach young readers about the life cycles of living creatures such as insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals. Discusses metamorphosis, a larva, and bird and fish eggs as part of a life cycle, and other related material.

Examines the various physical and behavioral adaptations animals use to survive.

This is the diary...of a fly. A fly who, when she's not landing on your head or swimming in your soup, is trying to escape her 327 brothers and sisters who are driving her crazy!



Even though she's little -- just like her best friends Worm and Spider -- Fly wants to be a superhero. And why not? She walks on walls, sees in all directions at once, and can already fly!

On Tova's farm, anything might be possible.

Join Gilbert on his quest to find his froggy-friend, Croaky? Is Croaky in the vines? Near the pond? In the kitchen? Where could Croaky be?