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Chinchillas are large round rodents originally found in South America. But today, you can find them in many pet stores around the United States! These furry friends might not be the cuddliest companions, but that doesn't mean people don't love this odd pet. Through this book's look at pet chinchillas, readers will discover what it takes to own one of these creatures. With fact boxes featuring important information about chinchillas and full-color photographs of these strange pets, readers will learn more.

This official Minecraft cookbook expands beyond its sixty recipes, giving aspiring young chefs the tools needed to begin a lifelong love of cooking—as well as important lessons on environmental stewardship.
 
Welcome to The Crafter’s Kitchen, an official Minecraft cookbook and your starting point for a food journey across the Overworld and our very own planet! Your guide is a Minecraft chef named the Gourmand who sees the planet Earth with wonder—as well as concern. Where they come from, apples don’t come out of plastic bags. Every ingredient has its own story and has its own place in nature. And everyone composts.
 
The sixty recipes in The Crafter’s Kitchen are ideal for kitchen first-timers and kids learning to cook with their parents. Each chapter features a different biome of the Minecraft world, from the deepest ocean to the highest mountain, spotlighting delicious, easy-to-make recipes as well as environmental issues facing similar areas in our own world, like:

• Ocean: Garlicky Ratatouille Kabobs, Banana Dulce de Leche Batido, and cleaning up at the beach
• Forest: Applesauce Snacking Cake, Chicken Cacciatore, and starting your own garden
• Taiga: Cardamom Bear Paws, Swedish Meatballs, and supporting wildlife refuges
 
Through the magic of this Minecraft cookbook—and cuisine—kids can expand and explore their understanding of the food they eat and the world they will grow up to inherit and protect.

Bake delicious, colorful treats and create lasting memories in the kitchen with your team with these amazing recipes inspired by the world of Pokémon!

Explore confections and desserts representing every region of the incredible Pokémon universe. Featuring favorite treats that celebrate beloved characters from the world of Pokémon, My Pokémon Baking Book is the perfect addition to any Pokémon Trainer's kitchen. Great for fans of all ages!

50+ RECIPES: From quick treats to share with friends to dazzling dessert displays perfect for celebrating a Pokémon League victory, My Pokémon Baking Book includes recipes for every occasion.

REGIONAL SPECIALTIES: Explore favorite and unique flavors from every currently known region, including the newly discovered region, Paldea!

FAVORITE CHARACTERS: Create cookies, cakes, breads, cupcakes, and more with bakery-fresh recipes inspired by Pikachu and friends! 

DISHES FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL: With step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, My Pokémon Baking Book will teach you how to make iconic foods that bring the vibrant culinary sweets inspired by the world of Pokémon to life. Whether you’re baking with other Trainers or your family, these easy-to-follow recipes will make you a baking master in no time!

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Looking for more creative fun? My Pokémon Cookbook is available to take you on another Pokémon culinary adventure, while Pokémon Wisdom: A Journal for Embracing Your Inner Trainer provides creative journaling!

Join British comedian Russell Kane on this HILARIOUS journey to select your next cat, dog, hamster or rabbit, or snake, or gecko, or rat, or…

Russell knows loads about pets, as he’s got four of his own. And he believes that when choosing a pet, personality is the most important thing! Pet Selector! is both a practical guide to finding a pet and a hugely entertaining account of pet personalities from one of the BIGGEST animal lovers out there.

Each entry includes an overview of the breed, an account of its temperament, the history of the breed or pet, and a handy score so you can rank each pet based on playfulness, lovingness and more.

Russell also tells funny stories all about his own pets, including his adorable, stinky pug Colin!

So whether you're looking for the purrfect pet or you just want to learn all about our furry and scaly friends, giggle through this guide full of facts, photos and more!

In this uniquely funny and informative pet book, you’ll find hilarious illustrations by Erica Salcedo, and clear photos of the over 40 pets and breeds included, like:

• Adorable pugs
• Fluffy poodles
• Hairless sphynxes
• Floppy ragdolls
• Friendly RATS?
• Chatty budgies
• ... AND SO MANY MORE!

Pet Selector! is a perfectly hilarious guide to pet personalities, from their quirky characters to special skills, wants, needs and even cuddling capabilities. Infused with his trademark humor, personal anecdotes and extensive pet expertise, Russell will make you laugh out loud AND find you your perfect pet. So, what are you waiting for? Russell is ready to introduce you to your next best friend.

Symptoms and treatments for anxiety and depression and how these conditions affect people's daily lives

An essential book for teaching kids about the importance of water and how to use it carefully!

Did you know that when water appears in your home, it must disappear from somewhere else? And that freshwater supply has to be shared by 7.7 billion people on Earth? If people do not conserve freshwater, there will not be enough for everyone. The good news is that there are lots of ways you can help save water. Learn all about them in How You Can Save Water.

ABOUT THIS SERIES:

Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of the abundant amount of water that covers our home. And nothing on Earth could survive without it. As we find ourselves facing a global water crisis, learning about this life-giving resource has never been more important. The books in this series are filled with colorful photos and diagrams, plus easy-to-digest text, and fascinating facts. And they offer young readers an in-depth look at what water is, how we use it, and most importantly, what we can do to protect it.

This title introduces the yeti by looking at its history, the culture or cultures it comes from, what it symbolized, and how it is shown today. Backmatter shows creatures like the Yeti in folklore from around the world. Complete with historical photographs and full-color images. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

Dive into the prehistoric world of dinosaurs and learn more about these frightening, peculiar, and incredibly fascinating animals. Why were T-Rex's arms so short? Why were some dinosaurs covered in feathers? Why did Diplodocus have pencil-shaped teeth? Answers to 200 of the most-asked dinosaur-related questions can be found in the pages of this amazing and engaging book. It includes stimulating information for avid learners on fearsome carnivores and huge herbivores, exciting archaeological discoveries, and more!

Could humans live on Earth’s moon? Space agencies around the world are working to find out and to discover what life on the moon would be like. Before people could move to the moon, there are many questions to answer and even more problems to solve. How would humans breathe? What would we eat? Explore the possibility of life on the moon.

The roads are filling with vehicles powered by electricity rather than gasoline. These electric vehicles are cheaper to fuel and maintain as well as being better for the environment in many ways. But that's not where the story ends. Explore more about this important topic with content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary and middle school students and easy-to-understand text written at a 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia-friendly font and design make learning accessible, and a recap at the end promotes checking for understanding to aid in comprehension. It's current events made approachable for all.

Discover what it means to become a US citizen and how the process unfolds in this "inspiring picture book" (The Washington Post) about immigration and naturalization.



What does US citizenship look like? Some of us are citizens by birth. Some of us are born beyond the United States and gain citizenship through immigration and naturalization. With lyrical prose and luminous mixed-media artwork, this nonfiction book outlines the process by which some of us--spanning every age and background--travel to the United States to live, work, study, and contribute to the fabric of our new communities. After years, without relinquishing who we are or where we came from, if we are fortunate, we can choose to become naturalized citizens. We can become American.



This insightful story honors the many different paths to citizenship and celebrates all people who enrich our country by striving to participate in our democracy. This book belongs with classrooms and parents who love: Grace for President, Areli Is a Dreamer, and What Can A Citizen Do?



May/June Kids' Indie Next List 2025

★Kirkus starred review

★Publishers Weekly starred review

★School Library Journal starred review

From poop-eating pups to supersmooth spy snakes, get a glimpse of our pets' amazing secret lives with this funny and fact-filled exposé!

Butt-sniffing dogs. Terrified tarantulas. Canaries with invisible force fields? Yep--it turns out our pets experience the world in totally different ways than we do. Unlock some of your nonhuman family members' wildest behaviors in this hilarious (and sometimes shiver-worthy) illustrated guide to their secret lives, complete with exciting interviews with the scientists who research them. From fierce hamster stink wars to the hidden wild side of Bubbles the goldfish, who knew there was so much more to understand about our furry and scaly friends? Back matter includes websites for do-it-yourself research, a bibliography of real studies and scientists, a glossary, and even some how-to-draws (how about tapeworms high-fiving on a poop rocket?). Bold, playful illustrations and witty text combine in this delightfully fun and gross page-flipper from the team behind Your Hidden Life: Unseen Jungle.

Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies!

All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it.
Clear, inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title.

Be an active citizen. Know your Constitution!
 
Ever wonder why the president has a Cabinet? Why there’s such thing as trial by jury? Why someday you’ll have to pay income tax, or why there are no Dukes, Duchesses, Counts, or Countesses in the United States? Because the Constitution says so––and so much more. And now, in The Constitution Decoded, the ideas, concepts, and rules that make America are unpacked and explained in detail to help all of us, kids and parents too, become more informed citizens.
 
Written with impeccable clarity and illustrated in a style that brings America’s early days to life, this fascinating guide goes through the Constitution literally word by word, sentence by sentence, and idea by idea to give readers a true understanding of not only how the Framers envisioned the United States, but also why they made the choices they did. Here’s why, for example, the United States has three branches of government—legislative, executive, and judicial. It explains how bills become laws, why we have the right to free speech, how we can change the Constitution as our country evolves, and so much more.

Packed with historical context and figures, vocabulary, anecdotes, and trivia, this book is an accessible yet richly layered work that belongs in every family library.
 
 

Dive into the most mysterious waters around the world (if you dare) in Spooky Lakes, an illustrated nonfiction book from TikTok star and educator Geo Rutherford. An instant New York Times bestseller!

From Geo Rutherford--the creator of the hit series Spooky Lake Month (over 65 million likes!)--comes this thrilling nonfiction book that plumbs the depths of 25 unusual lakes around the world.

Backed by extensive research and packed with all-new content--including eerie and eye-popping watercolor illustrations in full color--Spooky Lakes takes readers on an adventure through weird and wild waters.

Some of Earth's strangest--and creepiest--wonders lie deep below the surface...

There's Lake Natron, a Tanzanian lake so briny that its waters can mummify any creature that touches its surface; Lake Maracaibo, a Venezuelan tidal bay where a constantly brewing storm sends an average of 28 lightning bolts per second into the water; and at the bottom of Lake Superior, the crew of the USS Kamloops--which mysteriously disappeared in 1921--remains somehow almost perfectly preserved to this day.

Readers will learn not only about the science of hydrology, but why understanding the natural world is crucial to protecting it from pollution and climate change.

Includes a glossary, bibliography, author's note, and index.

Includes These Spooky Lakes: 
Lake Superior (United States and Canada) 
Roopkund Lake (India) 
Lake Karachay (Russia) 
Lake Nicaragua (Nicaragua) 
Nyiragongo Lava Lake (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 
Toxic Lake (Romania) 
Yellowstone Hot Springs (Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, United States) 
Kaindy Lake (Kazakhstan) 
Cenotes (Mexico) 
Jellyfish Lake (Palau) 
Kaali Crater Lake (Estonia) 
Kawah-Ijen (Indonesia) 
Lake Vostok (Antarctica) 
Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela) 
Lake Nyos (Cameroon) 
Pitch Lake (Trinidad) 
Spirit Lake (Washington, United States) 
Qiandao Lake (China) 
Lake Chagan (Kazakhstan) 
Underwater Brine Lakes (Gulf of Mexico) 
Lake Natron (Tanzania) 
Crater Lake (Oregon, United States) 
Lake Guatavita (Colombia) 
The Shaft (Australia/near Mount Gambier) 
Lake Baikal (Russia)