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2) Volcanoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind volcanoes, including where and why volcanoes happen and how to stay safe when the mountain spews fire. Includes activity, glossary, and index"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Uncover the Earth's inner secrets as you explore the world's most magnificent volcanoes and earthquakes like never before. Become an eyewitness to the world's most explosive volcanoes and powerful earthquakes with this picture-led guide that will take you on a visual tour of the hotspots of the world. Explore everything you need to know about the Earth's most extraordinary natural forces - from active volcanoes, including Kilanea in Hawaii and Etna...
5) Volcanoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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What is a volcano? What happens when a volcano erupts? How can volcanoes be helpful? Read this book to discover the answers!
6) Volcanoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of volcanoes.
7) Volcanoes!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes how a volcano is formed, the different types of volcanoes, where the most active volcanoes are found, and what happens when a volcano erupts.
9) Volcanoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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What makes a volcano spurt such hot lava? Where does all the lava come from? What makes the lava so hot and furious? Volcanoes hold a story that is just waiting to spill out, as your readers will learn here. While focusing on the answers to these questions, readers will also be learning related science concepts.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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This title will take readers throughout the beautiful Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island. Readers will learn the park's size, and the important plants, animals, and natural features that make it unique. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
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In a helicopter with no doors, she hovers over a lava lake the size of two football fields - then lands! She runs through clouds of scalding steam, dodging lava bombs, to photograph glowing hot lava as it pours into the sea. She sets up camp on the edge of a volcano\'s cone, only to be hit with hurricane-force winds, poisonous gases and acidic ash. Witness a typical day in the life of Donna O\'Meara - volcano researcher, writer and photographer. Donna\'s...
12) Volcanoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses volcanoes that are dormant, parts of a volcano, the ring of fire, hot spots, and deadly eruptions.
14) Volcanoes!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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In graphic novel format, text and illustrations explain how volcanoes erupt, how they are studied, and how to stay safe during an eruption.
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Science writer and author Breining (Return of the Eagle) gives readers a solid introduction to modern volcanology in this look at "super volcanoes" in general (those that "have expelled at least 1,000 cubic kilometers of magma... all at once") and the Yellowstone caldera-"potentially the most explosive, most violent, most deadly active volcano on the planet"-in particular. Most readers will be astonished to learn that 2.1 million years ago, the area...
17) Fault lines & tectonic plates: discover what happens when the earth's crust moves, with 25 projects
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One thing you can rely on is the surface of the earth, except when it moves, which is all the time! In Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates: Discover What Happens When the Earth's Crust Moves, readers 9-12 learn about plate tectonics and how the earth's surface is always changing.
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For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others...
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"Volcanoes and avalanches are extreme natural events on opposite ends of the temperature spectrum -- volcanoes cause destruction with hot lava, while avalanches do their damage with ice and snow. With the help of text that's broken down into manageable sections and visual elements such as graphic organizers and diagrams, readers enhance their understanding of the science behind volcanic eruptions and avalanches. Specific case studies emphasize the...