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Penguins

Penguins

By Penelope Arlon

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Grades 2 - 4

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Grade level Equivalent: 4

Lexile Measure®: 870L

DRA: 30

Guided Reading: N

Genre

  • Informational
  • Series

Theme/Subject

  • Arctic Animals
  • Life Cycles
  • Antarctica and Arctic Regions

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About This Book

Scholastic Discover More is a revolutionary new nonfiction line pairing stunning print books with corresponding interactive digital books that extend the learning online. Penguins unlocks a free 48-page digital companion book, Amazing Antarctica, offering even more information, photos, and videos!Small in size but big in personality, stars of movies, TV, and games, penguins are loved by kids everywhere. This book reveals their real lives, far beyond our wildest imagination! Meet every one of the 17 different kinds of penguin; discover how they eat, sleep, talk, walk, and swim, and of course, the wonderful stories of how they look after their eggs and chicks. Big and beautiful Antarctic images, especially shot for this book, are combined with up-to-the-minute information from penguin experts, and dramatic modern graphics to entice confident and reluctant readers alike.And there's lots to do! Be a marine biologist for a day, make and decorate a penguin egg, and track how the diminishing ice is threatening the lives of these fantastic creatures.

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Penelope Arlon

Penelope Arlon is an author who writes children's nonfiction, taking inspiration from her children. Her books range from pre-school to family reference, and include the Art Attack books, based on the award-winning CITV children's television program, and all fourteen titles in Dorling Kindersley's Eye Know series.

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