New Releases by Angela Royston

For the student who needs a hand getting their homework, project, or dream started, this fun, friendly, and easy-to-follow guide is full of tips, tricks, and strategies. Readers will be top of the class with this essential skill-building book that explains how to manage time, plan, and more. Study skills are life skills, but sometimes they''re hard to pick up in the classroom. From explaining how to write, listen, plan, and research through how to give a speech and manage a social network, this funny, irreverent, and helpful series will guide every student through. Broken into digestible tips and tricks, the instructional text guides and supports students to encourage independent learning, and isn''t overwhelming or intimidating. Students can get skilled for life with these awesome study guides.

See how the body works its magic to help you move, hear, breathe, grow . . . and much more. Packed with facts, diagrams and photos, this is the perfect introduction to the amazing human body.

This series introduces simple science topics using everyday objects and situations that readers can recognize in the world around them. This title looks at light: what it does, where it comes from, what materials it can pass through, shadows, reflection.

"This fascinating series takes a very simple look at animal classifications, with each book focussing on a different group of animal. This book is about amphibians: what they do, how they behave, and how these characteristics are different from other groups of animals. Beautifully illustrated with colorful photographs, the book shows many examples of different types of amphibians in their natural environment."--

This fascinating series takes a very simple look at animal classifications, with each book focussing on a different group of animal. This book is about reptiles: what they do, how they behave, and how these characteristics are different from other groups of animals. Beautifully illustrated with colorful photographs, the book shows many examples of different types of reptiles in their natural environment.

This book is all about birds: what they do, how they behave, and how these characteristics are different from other groups of animals. Beautifully illustrated with colorful photographs, the book shows many examples of different types of birds in their natural environment.

This book explores the food chains and webs that exist in a mountain habitat. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers learn how fragile food chains can be, how they can be broken, and what we can do to prevent this.

"Each book in the Adapted to Survive series looks at a selection of high-interest animals that share a common skill, examining how each animal has adapted to survive in its own particular environment. This book looks at animals that climb, and includes chapters on mountain goats, squirrels, leopards, spider monkeys, and more!"--

"Each book in the Adapted to Survive series looks at a selection of high-interest animals that share a common skill, examining how each animal has adapted to survive in its own particular environment. This book looks at animals that run, and includes chapters on horses, cheetahs, gazelles, ostriches, and more!"--

Written in the form of a first-person diary, this book takes a look at a typical week in the life of a firefighter.

Describes the history and styles of hip-hop dance, including steps, the clothes dancers wear, and competitions.

Describes the history and styles of tap dance, including steps, top dancers, and the clothes they wear.

Looks at the life of a dairy farmer, explaining the skills, dedication, and hard work necessary to get this job.

It''s a completely different world under the sea! Join an ocean explorer on a watery adventure and find out about the amazing sights the ocean has to offer. White Wolves Non-fiction is a guided reading scheme which takes a high-interest approach to core geography, history and science topics. It has been created to appeal to children and reflect the range of texts in the real world, from guidebooks to cookbooks. Covering a wide range of topics at different reading levels, these books are ideal for classroom and topic libraries, and for teaching non-fiction literacy skills in a curriculum context.

A series that combines exciting design, simple text, vivid photographs and lively illustrations to give readers a glimpse of some of the grossest parts and products of the human body.

Explains basic facts about different types of houses, including bits of trivia about the ways people live in movable structures around the world.

Describes the life cycle of sockeye salmon, as they swim from the river in which they were hatched to the sea and back again.

A simple introduction to the life cycle of a red delicious apple, from the blossoming of a flower bud in the spring through the development and ripening of the fruit to its harvesting in the fall.

Introduces the life cycle of an oak tree, from the sprouting of an acorn through its more than 100 years of growth.

An introduction to the life cycle of a frog from the time it is a tiny egg laid in water until it is two years old.

Introduces the life cycle of a dog, using a golden retriever as an example and describing various stages of her life, from newborn puppy to adult dog having puppies of her own.

Introduces the parts, pollination, life cycle, and farming of sunflowers.

An introduction to the life cycle of a guinea pig from the time a tiny pup is born until, eight months later, it is fully grown and ready to start a family of its own.

Discusses what water and fiber are, what foods they can be found in, and how the body absorbs, digests, and uses these ingredients.

"Looks at where electricity comes from, batteries and flashlights, electrical circuits, switches, and conductors and insulators"--Page 4 of cover.

This series introduces simple science topics using everyday situations and objects that readers can recognize in the world around them. Activities and questions are presented to encourage active thinking about concepts. Captions and labels support the presentation of key ideas.

Provides a simple explanation of the differences between things that are living and nonliving, and includes examples of each.

Photographs and simple text teach children what the poles of magnets are for, how to tell if something is magnetic, and how magnets help people recycle.

Provides a simple explanation of what makes different materials soft or hard and how they are used for different jobs because of their hardness or softness.

Describes what materials are, where they come from, how people use them, and how materials can be recycled.