Bibliography: Grade 2

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Interactions of Living Things

Mousekin's Lost Woodland
by Edna Miller
Simon & Schuster, 1992
This is a story of woodland animals whose habitats are destroyed when people begin to build in their environment.

Desert Giant
by Barbara Bash
Little, Brown, & Company, 1989
The life cycle of a saguaro cactus and the creatures that it supports are documented in this tale.

Related Science Trade Books
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company

The Magpies' Nest
by Joanna Foster
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993
This classic English folktale explains the amazing variety of birds' nests.

Elephants Swim
by Linda Capus Riley
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
A lovely and informative poem about the various ways in which sixteen different animals behave in water.

Energy and Motion

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
by Peter and Connie Roop
Carolrhoda Books, 1985
This story of a young woman who maintained a lighthouse introduces children to the characteristics and importance of light.

Full of Energy
by Sally Hewitt
Children's Press, 1998
This book uses top-quality photographs to illustrate how energy surrounds children in their day-to-day life.

Changes Over Time

How's the Weather?
by Melvin and Gilda Berger
Discovery Readers, 1993
This illustrative book describes daily seasonal weather patterns to demonstrate how weather is ever-changing and often unpredictable.

How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
by Bernard Most
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995
This book introduces the sizes of various dinosaurs by comparing them to recognizable objects in today's world.

Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Air Is All Around You
by Franklyn M. Branley
Harper and Row, 1990
This book illustrates the properties of air and how it affects life and daily activities.

Emmett's Snowball
by Ned Miller
Henry Holt & Company Incorporated, 1999
Children learn how materials change from one state to another as a boy makes a giant snowball.

What Makes Me Sick

Germs Make me Sick
by Melvin Berger
HarperCollins Children's Books, 1995
Children learn about various kinds of germs and how bodies react to the germs that make people sick.

What Are Drugs?
by Gretchen Super
Troll Associates, 1990
This book provides a simplistic look at drugs, reinforces health and self-esteem issues, and illustrates the importance of staying healthy.

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