Mattern, Joanne

Features prairie dogs, badgers, coyotes, and other animals and plants that live in a grassland habitat.

Introduces and examines the different aspects of football.

Biography of star pop singer Jason Derulo. Blue Banner Biographies are up to date well written and colorful. Series titles include people in the news from sports entertainment movies and music. Students read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension and read on level text with purpose and understanding. Series titles have been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals higher level thinking skills and progressive learning strategies for middle grade and junior high level students.

Looks at what it means to take turns and explains that taking turns is an important way to be a good friend.

Looks at different ways to share and explains that while it is sometimes hard to share, it is always worth the effort.

Looks at what it means to be a helper and explains that helping is an important way to be a good friend.

Illustrations and simple text written in both English and Spanish introduces readers to the prehistoric giganotosaurus, what it may have looked like, and how and where it lived.

A photographic introduction to rhinoceroses, providing information about where they live, how they look, what they eat and drink, how they stay safe, and why they are endangered.

Provides a simple introduction to the life of America's forty-fourth President Barack Obama.

Looks at skunks as night animals, discussing how their heightened senses of hearing and smell help them find food in the dark, and explaining how skunks protect themselves.