The Most Dangerous (Arbordale Collection) - Hardcover

Terri Fields

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607185261 ISBN 13: 9781607185260

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Dangerous animals from all over the world gather for the Most Dangerous Animal of All Contest. Snakes, spiders, sharks...who will the winner be? Deadly poison, huge teeth, razor-sharp horns, and fearsome feet are just a few of the ways that animals kill. Predators mean to kill. Prey simply defend themselves. And yet, the unexpected Most Deadly Animal doesn't mean any harm! Don't let the suspense kill you.

4 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
30-40 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book's homepage
eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio
Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell

About this title

About the Author:

Terri Fields (Burro's Tortillas, The Most Dangerous) has written nineteen books which have garnered a number of awards including the Maud Hart Lovelace Award for Middle Grades Fiction, the Georgia Children's Choice Award, being named to the Recommended Reading List for Chicago Public School, the TAYSHAS (Texas) Reading List, the Southwest Books of the Year List, and as one of the 100 Top Kid Picks in Children's Books in Arizona. A long time desert-dweller, Ms. Fields has enjoyed sharing her books with children all over the world. In addition to writing, Ms. Fields is also a educator who has been named Arizona Teacher of the Year, ING Education Innovator for Arizona, and been selected as one of the twenty teachers on the All-USA Teacher Team of the nation's top educators. Terri Fields has worked with students in first through twelfth grade. Ms. Fields sees the world around her in terms of the wonderful stories it reveals.

Review:

With animals a perennial favorite and a cover featuring the gaping mouths of a shark, snake, and crocodile, this contest is likely to lure the most reluctant readers. - School Library Journal

Through author Terri Fields's descriptive text and illustrator Laura Jacques's full-page, life-like pictures, children will become acquainted with some of the ways that out in the wild predators kill for food and prey defend themselves. - Home School Book Review

Readers will learn about predators and prey, poison, defense, horns, and tusks. - Learning Table Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1607185261
• ISBN 13: 9781607185260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Laura Jacques