Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake.

Carter and Sade prepare for the ultimate confrontation with the chaos snake Apophis at the same time the House of Life magicians launch a civil war, compelling the Kanes to tap the power of an ancient spell.

What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...

You'll find hair-raising photographs and mind-blowing facts on every page of Ripley's Twists: Snakes and Reptiles, as well as unbelievable, weird and wonderful stories from Ripley's Believe It or Not!® From the freaky frilled lizard, the flap-necked chameleon, and the leatherback sea turtle, to the ferocious fangs of such cold-blooded killers as boa constrictors, vipers, and more, readers will find science side-by-side with the scary, shocking, and...

Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with copperheads. Your students will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their striking ability. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're bitten. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards -- from Amazon.

"A plague is spreading throughout the Florida Everglades. Nonnative Burmese pythons--one of the largest snakes on the planet--are now known to be reproducing freely in the shallow waters of the famed River of Grass. Over the past decade, thousands of pythons have made themselves at home across the landscape. And though scientists work feverishly to learn as much as possible about this unprecedented invader, methods of control remain elusive. Many...

"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Snakes, emergent readers learn about different snake colors, patterns, and behaviors. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Snakes includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions....