Oxford Reading Tree inFact: Oxford Level 4: The Missing Bone

Visit the museum at night with Zac and Jess they've found a bone, and need to work out which animal's skeleton it belongs to! This enjoyable book introduces children to different animals' skeletons, while keeping them intrigued with the mystery of the missing bone! Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a compelling non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as…

A Walk Through the Woods

This stunning gift book, with hand-cut paper art and lyrical text by an award-winning poet, leads you deep into the forest . . . and out again into the light. Listen: the forest is calling. Take a quiet walk through the woods, where shadows fall in the darkness, eyes peek out, and some animals sleep while others run and leap. Simple, poetic text and intricate papercut illustrations introduc…

Dog loves books

Dog loves books! Dog loves books about dinosaurs and Dog loves books about aliens: in fact Dog loves all books! Dog has his very own bookshop, although he doesn't have many customers. But that's all right, because when Dog is surrounded by books, he is never short of friends or fun. And when someone does come into the shop, Dog knows just which books to recommend.

On my island

The narrator of this story thinks that there’s nothing to do on his little round island, which he shares with a wolf, two cats, three ants, and a bat. But all around him, fantastic events are taking place — it’s just that the boy and his friends are always looking in the wrong direction. Marie-Louise Gay’s signature style brings delight and whimsy to every page. “A masterpiece.... Gay…

Madagascar : movie novel

From DreamWorks, the studio behind the megahit SHREK 2, a movie that proves that it's a jungle out there! What happens when four New York zoo animals-a lion who's used to being the center of attention, a zebra who wants to live in the wild, a giraffe who's a hypochondriac, and a hippo who's got attitude to spare-are taken from the safety of their city homes, loaded on to a boat headed for Af…

Chemical reactions

Readers will learn what chemical reactions are, how they work, what changes happen during reactions, and how we can stop reactions.

Letters from a mouse

"dear reader, i am s. mouse of hayes bros ltd office supplies. i write letters and answer the phone at night. but right now im in terrible trouble. a man rang and asked for a brief case big enough to hold half a million pounds in unmarked 5 pound notes. i smell a rat. can you help me solve the mystery?" Can you help a small mouse solve a big mystery? Read the lively letters and see if you ca…

Metal

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ISBN/ISSN

0736825126

Collation

24 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

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Call Number

620.1 KRA

What is light? : exploring science with hands-on activities

Authors Richard and Louise Spilsbury use simple language to explain what light is. Readers explore reflections and bending light; how our eyes work; and how lenses, mirrors, and telescopes work. Throughout the book, interesting hands-on activities reinforce the text.

Sea clocks : the story of longitude

"For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were!" Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could …