Going Underground : City Infrastructure

Have you ever imagined what happens beneath city streets? Read this book to discover the hidden world under your feet!

Author: Buffy Silverman
ISBN: 9781410925985 (1410925986) • Dewey: 628 • List Price: $29.00 • Direct Price: $21.75
Ages: 9-12 • Grade Level: 4-7 • Hi-Lo Level: 2 • Guided Reading Level: M
Pages: 32 • Size: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 • Publisher: Raintree • Copyright: 2007
Subjects: Technology • Features: Bullets, Captions, Chart/Graph, Fact box/Side bar, Labels
Accelerated Reader

• AR Level: 3.5 • AR Points: 0.5 • AR Quiz Number: 111500

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Series Contents / Information

Grades
4-7

Raintree Fusion: Social Studies
Readers will travel around the world and throughout history as they learn about communication, cultural diversity, and geography. Geography topics range from city planning themes such as resource distribution, settlement patterns, and city infrastructure, to landforms and map skills. Raintree Fusion is high-interest nonfiction aligned with curriculum, at a reading level accessible to struggling readers. It uses engaging photographs and illustrations. Background knowledge of subject matter is also incorporated into the text. All vocabulary is defined at point of use. Each title has a clean, clear design that supports readability along with clear, predictable text structures.

ISBN: 9781410926012 (141092601X) • List Price: $232.00 • Direct Price: $174.00

Includes the following 8 titles: Birth and Death of a City : Settlement Patterns, Did You Hear the News? : History of Communication, Follow that Food : Distribution of Resources, Going Underground : City Infrastructure, Lost! : Map Skills, Where Are Your Manners? : Cultural Diversity, World's Wonders : Landforms, X Marks the Spot : Mapping the World

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