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1) Bridges
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing bridges while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."
2) Skyscrapers
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing skyscrapers while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
3) Tunnels
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing tunnels while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
4) Dams
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing dams while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
5) Stadiums
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the world's most amazing stadiums while explaining the engineering behind their creation. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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In Roller Coasters, early fluent readers will learn how roller coasters are engineered to keep thrill seekers safe while giving them an exciting ride. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they explore the built world around them. An infographic illustrates the physics principles that make roller coasters work, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about...
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Through exciting photographs and carefully tailored vocabulary, this book introduces young readers to the ways animals eat, drink, taste, and make sounds. Beginning readers will explore the functions of mouths, teeth, and tongues across species, learning the ways these body parts help animals to survive. This book demonstrates how these structures have evolved to best serve the specific diets and habitats of different animals.
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Children will learn about how the eyes, ears, and nose function to help animals thrive. Early readers will encounter adaptations that allow animals to see, hear, and smell, often in unique and challenging environments. Using fun examples, this book demonstrates how animals rely on their senses, pairing simple and straightforward vocabulary with vibrant images.
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Readers can learn about some fascinating adaptations that have evolved to help animals meet their needs. From a kitten's sharp claws to a gorilla's fingernails, this book uses simple language and engaging images to let beginning readers explore how animals use their hands and feet. Young readers will gain an understanding of how these structures function as tools and defense mechanisms, allowing animals to survive in their environment.
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How do animals get around? This fun volume explores animal mobility and the interesting adaptations that allow animals to walk, fly, and swim in many different kinds of environments. This book considers how animals use movement to seek shelter, escape predators, and explore the world around them. Young readers will learn about these crucial components of animal bodies with simple language tailored to help them read on their own while discovering the...
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What's the difference between skin and scales? Why do some animals live inside a hard shell? Early readers will learn about the diverse body coverings that allow animals to survive in their various environments, from the jungle to the ocean. Using simple language and close text-to-image correlation, this book introduces children to the fascinating ways animals' bodies have evolved to thrive in different parts of the world.
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How do bears keep warm in the winter? How does a porcupine protect itself from predators? Early readers will learn about adaptations that have developed on animals' skin to help them regulate temperature and keep safe, as well as how these adaptations change with the seasons and with an animal's environment. This book introduces beginning readers to some fascinating creatures with unique hair, fur, or spines that help them adapt to the challenges...
13) Dams
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From beaver dams to the Hoover Dam, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and care for them.
14) Bridges
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Readers will have a blast learning about Bridges. From truss bridges to suspension bridges, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and care for them. --Amazon.
15) Tunnels
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Readers will have a blast learning about Tunnels. From mining tunnels to the Channel Tunnel, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon.
16) Roads
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Readers will have a blast learning about Roads. From stone to asphalt and concrete, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon.
17) Skyscrapers
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Readers will have a blast learning about Skyscrapers. From apartment buildings to the Empire State Building, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon.
18) Canals
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Readers will have a blast learning about Canals. From the Panama Canal to shallow canals, this book explores how they are built, how they are used, and the engineer's job to build and plan for them. --Amazon.
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This title is all about the out-of-this-world International Space Station that has been orbiting Earth since 1998. Readers will learn all about its construction, updates throughout the years, the people who work on it, and its uses. This title is written at a Level 3, specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
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Learning algorithms and data structures from this book will help you become a better programmer. Algorithms and data structures will make you think more logically. Furthermore, they can help you design better systems for storing and processing data. They also serve as a tool for optimization and problem-solving.
As a result, the concepts of algorithms and data structures are very valuable in any field. For example, you can use them when building...
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