Firefighter Tom shows everything that fire fighters do, from maintaining his equipment and rescuing people to fighting fires and riding in parades.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces firefighters to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--

How did the dinosaurs die? They were the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth. Now they are all gone--extinct. Sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, with devastating effects. Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown and artist Phil Wilson recreate what may have happened to the dinosaurs on that deadly day.

"Simple text and photographs describe fire fighters and their role in our communities"--Provided by publisher.

With lights flashing and sirens blaring, fire trucks race to fires. See the different fire trucks and their special equipment in action fighting fires and saving people.

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. Award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen's waist." Their...

Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.