Jason Chin
1) Grand Canyon
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain."--
2) Redwoods
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. The text contains facts about the redwoods, while the illustrations tell the boy's story.
3) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
4) Coral reefs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there. Coral Reefs by Jason Chin plunges readers into the ocean with incredible facts about fish, coral reefs and marine life. Readers will experience...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
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Description
Presents a visual tribute to the evolving terrain and animals of the Galapagos that traces the island's fiery origins, its rise and decline as an environment, and the emergence of life on new islands.
8) Watercress
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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AAPI Heritage Month
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Description
"Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Publisher Anno: A picnic, a beach, a pie cut into pieces and shared with good friends. Pie is for sharing. It starts off round, and you can slice it into as many pieces as you want. What else can be shared? A ball, of course. A tree? What about time? Through the course of one memorable Fourth of July picnic, Stephanie Ledyard and Jason Chin take young readers through the ups and downs of sharing in this lovely picture book.