How People Learned to Fly Contributor(s): Hodgkins, Fran (Author), Kelley, True (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0064452212 ISBN-13: 9780064452212 Publisher: HarperCollins
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2007 Annotation: For hundreds of years people have wanted to fly. Countless tried and failed, but now flying is very common. Read and find out about the many obstacles that have been overcome so planes and people can soar through the sky. Click for more in this series: Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2 (Paperback) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science - Juvenile Nonfiction | Readers - Beginner - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Inventions |
Dewey: 629.13 |
LCCN: 2006000482 |
Age Level: 4-8 |
Grade Level: PreK-3 |
Lexile Measure: 550(Not Available) |
Series: Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2 (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.13" H x 9.95" W x 8.02" L (0.35 lbs) 40 pages |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 135 Kirkus Review - Children 10/01/2007 pg. 1049 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2008 pg. 150 - Recommended, Satisfactory |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 134155 Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Read and find out about flying before the airplane in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book. People have taken dangerous risks trying to fly. Some inventors built wings for their arms and flapped them like birds. Others tried to fly with balloons or tried to glide with the wind. This book describes the creative, fascinating, and wacky experiments that people tried before the airplane was invented. This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:
Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:
Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hodgkins, Fran: - Fran Hodgkins is the author of The Orphan Seal, winner of the Henry Bergh Children's Book Award, presented by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This is Fran Hodgkins's first Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book. She lives in Maryland. Kelley, True: -True Kelley has illustrated many favorite books for children in her fun-filled watercolor style, including several in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. She and the author previously collaborated on What Makes a Magnet? and What the Moon is Like? True Kelley lives in Warner, New Hampshire. |
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