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Highlights for Children

Highlights brings Fun with a Purpose! Built around the goal of fostering curiosity, creativity, confidence, and caring, Highlights has help children become their best selves for generations. Highlights Press publishes activity books and innovative novelty formats, with a variety of types of puzzle books that include Hidden PicturesÆ, PuzzlemaniaÆ, and Amazing Mazes, as well as craft books, joke books, and seasonal titles.

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Highlights for Children (introductory pack)

Relevant and contemporary fiction and nonfiction stories in article format that encourage children to become motivated students and responsible individuals

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"Changing-Up" Your Pitching
Author Frank C.G. Morelli
ISBN hfcisbn0055

Find out how to throw a circle change-up.

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A Crocodile Tale
Author Laura Goering
ISBN hfcisbn0068

A boy finds a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. And then finds that he has a real problem.

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A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper
Author Kimberleigh M. Briggs
ISBN hfcisbn0009

Workers at the San Antonio Zoo describe how they care for the animals.

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A Dragon in the Desert
Author Edmund Fortier
ISBN hfcisbn0015

Wind, water, and millions of years have shaped desert sandstone into giant rock formations.

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A Long Winter's Nap
Author Karen Ballen
ISBN hfcisbn0012

The arctic squirrel hibernates underground to survive the winter.

Highlights add-on pack

Relevant and contemporary fiction and nonfiction stories in article format that encourage children to become motivated students and responsible individuals

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"Michael Spreckle!  Where Have You Been?" cover image
"Michael Spreckle! Where Have You Been?"
Author Tebbetts, Christopher
ISBN hfcisbn0155

Michael went into a cave to get some moss and stalactite drippings for his jungle journal . . . and that was just the beginning!

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"Pull Hitter"
Author Christopher, Matt
ISBN hfcisbn0220

Ricky's team must win the game to score free tickets to the big game. Can he hit the ball when the bases are loaded?

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A Chipmunk's Home
Author Scully, Janice M.
ISBN hfcisbn0095

Don't be tripped up by these rodents that live in shallow burrows, sometimes under sidewalks.

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A Coaching Legend
Author Walker, Paul Robert
ISBN hfcisbn0200

Knute Rockne taught his players to be great, both on and off the field.

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A Cobra in the Garden
Author Gunnell, Mahani
ISBN hfcisbn0170

When the author's family moved to Borneo, they shared their garden with a black spitting cobra!

Highlights: SEL for Early Elementary

This early elementary collection is built around Social and Emotional Learning, featuring Highlight’s signature relevant and contemporary style, this collection facilitates children learning how to best understand and manage their emotions

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A Good Home
Author McGuire, Emma
ISBN 9780736784009

Bear decides that he does not like his cave and seeks help from his neighbors. His neighbors help him discover the home that is just right for him.

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A New Family Tradition
Author Zamosky, Lisa
ISBN 9780736785754

The Johnsons want their adopted son Carlos to know all about the customs of Mexico, the country where he was born. With family and Mexican friends, they celebrate their first Dia de los Muertos, the Day of Dead.

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A Real Home
Author Aboff, Marcie
ISBN 9780736786683

Flory's mom married Joe a few months ago, so now Flory has a new little brother and a new house in a different town. Flory has trouble adjusting to the changes. Flory doesn't like the idea that her mother and Joe decide everything without asking her first. Flory finally talks to mother about this, and Mom says she will remember to talk things over with Flory.

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All in a Day's Work
Author Wettersten, Ellen
ISBN 9780736786294

When a husband comes in from the fields tired and claiming his work is much harder than his wife's, the wife suggests they swap jobs the following day to give them an equal chance of experiencing the other's work.

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Ally Is My Friend
Author Brown, Kathleen A.; Wright, Louise T.
ISBN 9780736784887

Two best friends learn that making a new friend can sometimes be hard.

Highlights: SEL for Upper Elementary

This upper elementary collection is built around Social and Emotional Learning, featuring Highlight’s signature relevant and contemporary style, this collection facilitates children learning how to best understand and manage their emotions

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9-1-1 Emergency!
Author Robinson, Fay
ISBN 9781792250972

This book explains when 9-1-1 should be called and what happens after the number is dialed.

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A Friend to Everyone
Author Siburt, Ruth
ISBN 9780736789035

This book is about a young girl, Alycia, who moved to a different town and had to finish sixth grade in a new school. In her old school she had known and liked everyone, and everyone liked her. But in this new school, she has to start over meeting new students and making new friends. Alycia's struggles to fit in teach her a valuable lesson.

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A Gathering of Stories
Author Siburt, Ruth
ISBN 9780736789042

Before telescopes, before carbon dating, before behavioral science, there was story. Stories explained the mysterious. They served as entertainment. They provided examples of how to (or not to) live within a society. They were passed from generation to generation, and they live on today as myths and legends.

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A Good Friend
Author Watson, Tyrone
ISBN 9781792250910

Good friends play, share, help, and laugh.

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A Step Toward Freedom
Author Follett, Katherine
ISBN 9781792256387

Louisa Watts, an African American, became involved in the women's suffrage movement. Although uncertain at first about the importance of the suffrage movement to women's freedom, Louisa soon saw its worth. She later worked tirelessly to get legislation passed that would allow all women, regardless of color, the freedom to vote.

Highlights: Spanish

A great new Spanish collection from Highlights, perfect for ELL students or any classroom looking to expand their Spanish library.

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Abrigada
Author Howell, Ravel
ISBN 23309774

A child bundles up against the cold.

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Acampar en casa de la abuela
Author Spinelli, Eileen
ISBN 23309786

Bryan wishes he could go camping like his big sister Honey. Then he has an idea: he can take a trip to Grandma's house instead!

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Achus Achus
Author Kasser, Carol
ISBN 23309828

The stationmaster tries to find out what's making his little red train sneeze.

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Animales al rescate
Author Roper, David L.
ISBN 23309839

All the farm animals work together to get Farmer Brown down from the roof of the barn.

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Aqui viene!
Author Silvano, Wendi
ISBN 23309857

A freight train rolls down the train tracks.

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