DK Adventures: Jungle Adventures


Book Description

Is your child interested in surviving in the jungle and learning about jungle animals? DK Adventures: Jungle Adventures is the perfect book for learning more about the jungle! This book combines story and visual elements to appeal to both avid readers and visual learners. With the jungle facts and adventures story in DK Adventures: Jungle Adventure, kids might not realize they're learning at all! In DK Adventures: Jungle Adventure, we join Charlotte and a team of scientists on an expedition to explore Cambodia's wildlife. Learn how to survive and how to find animals in the jungle. Experience the mosquitoes, snakes, and torrential rain of the rainforest, and join the team as they encounter frogs, monkeys, and even a tiger! Kids will be excited about discovering the elusive Siamese crocodile, and will be eager to see if Charlotte can overcome her fear of camping. DK Adventures is a book series that reluctant readers can enjoy as much as bookworms do! This series combines captivating, fictional stories with nonfiction facts to encourage learning and engagement in your child. The stories keep children interested, and the facts teach critical skills and knowledge — the fiction and nonfiction elements work together to keep each child's interest high, to build knowledge, and to enrich the narrative reading experience with fascinating background information. These books are filled with information, but the stories make them incredibly readable. DK Adventures are available in a range of kid-friendly topics, including dinosaurs, cars, and the human body, and each book supports Common Core State Standards and literacy skills.




Jungle Adventures


Book Description

Explores what an expedition to Cambodia's mountain forests is like for research scientists who are studying its rare and undiscovered animals, including camp life, discovering the forest animals and plants, and visiting a wildlife rescue center.







LEGO Friends: Jungle Adventure (Chapter Book #6)


Book Description

Join the LEGO(R) Friends on an exciting adventure in Heartlake City with this full-color chapter book based on the popular toy sets! There's always something exciting happening in the world of the LEGO(R) Friends! Join Mia, Emma, Stephanie, Olivia, and Andrea on another fun-filled adventure in beautiful Heartlake City. This chapter book will feature full-color artwork and a story based on the latest LEGO Friends toy sets.




DK Adventures: Fast and Cool Cars


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Find out about different cars past, present and future. Explore recent manufacturing and engineering developments with environmentally friendly fuels and investigate their inner workings. DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks.




DK Adventures: Myths and Legends


Book Description

Let your imaginations soar and be whisked away on a magical journey around the world, retelling myths and legends from long ago. Meet the mischievous tricksters, the brave heroes and the all-powerful creator gods from ancient cultures and find out how they overcome the giants, the shapeshifters and the lure of sea-maidens in DK Adventures: Myths and Legends. DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks.




DK Adventures: The First Telephone


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In The First Telephone, discover Alexander Graham Bell's story and his determination to be the first to invent a transmitter to carry a spoken message that would transform communications. With the help of Thomas Watson, Bell perseveres and records his step-by-step progress against the wishes of his sponsors. With Elisha Gray and many others are submitting patents too, the race is on. DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks.




DK Adventures: LEGO FRIENDS: Let's Explore!


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Combining DK's new chapter book series with the successful LEGO® Friends brand, DK Adventures: LEGO Friends: Let's Explore! will help kids learn how to read and learn to love reading. Follow the girls of Heartlake City as they go an adventure and learn more about the city around them. DK Adventures is a nonfiction series for kids ages 8-11 featuring visually rich theme spreads, and fascinating facts that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. Designed to keep interest high, build knowledge, and enrich the reading experience with fascinating background information, each title in the DK Adventures series is filled with information yet eminently accessible, and available in a wide range of kid-favorite topics including rain forests, animals, rocks, and shipwrecks. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. © 2015 The LEGO Group. Produced by DK Publishing under license from the LEGO Group.




Star Wars


Book Description

Introduces the dark world of the evil Sith, describing their powers and ruthless plots to take over the galaxy.




DK Adventures: Ballet Academy


Book Description

Lucy follows her dream to train to be a professional ballerina, and is selected as one of a handful of students into the Ballet Academy. Follow her journey as she gets through the tough training with the support of teachers and fellow students, and performs alongside her idol in The Nutcracker before facing her final challenge of getting into Ballet High School. DK Adventures are an innovative mix of narrative and nonfiction for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere. Supports the Common Core State Standards.