Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Readers

A bridge can be used in many ways. This book shows bridges for cars, trucks, trains, people, and even animals.

Ice forms in many places. Some are familiar, while others are surprising.

You don’t need fancy instruments to make music. These kids are making music with items they found at home.

The animals all want Hen to make socks for them. When one sad animal thinks that no socks will fit him, clever Hen knows just what to do.

Ricky just wants to ride his new bike, but there’s always one more thing he has to do first.

When an eagle named Beauty lost her beak, volunteers wanted to make her a new one. Everyone told them it couldn’t be done. Did Beauty’s friends find a way to help her?

In the fall, round, orange pumpkins sit in fields, on stores, and on people’s doorsteps. But have you ever seen a pumpkin that weighs as much as a horse? Growers around the world compete each year to grow these giant pumpkins.

Keeping track of a wolverine isn’t easy. Just ask the scientists who lost a young wolverine on his journey over hundreds of miles.

Sumatran tigers live deep in the jungle. Few of these animals are left in the world. Ron Tilson and his team set out to explore the jungle to find these endangered animals.

Around the world, people hunt for a treasure called sea glass. This treasure used to be trash!

When your dog has loads of energy, what can you do? Enter him in a sport that’s just for dogs!

Worm charming? It started as a crazy contest at a school in England. Now it’s an event that attracts thousands of people—and thousands of worms!

When scientist Joanna Gyory visited a small island, she was in for a big surprise. On this island, something unusual happens after it rains.

Captain Robert Scott is exploring the dangerous Antarctic wilderness with his sled team of twelve dogs and their lead dog, Osman. One day, the dogs suddenly disappear into a deep crack in the ice. Will Scott and his men be able to save them?

Birds around the world have a secret. It involves a strange behavior called anting. Just watching it will make your skin crawl!

When Willie Smits saw a kidnapped baby orangutan, he knew he had to rescue her. He’d soon find that hundreds of other orangutans needed his help to return to the forest.

On a single day in 2008, sixteen whales came ashore in the Bahamas–stranded! Why do great swimmers like whales get stuck on a beach? Follow the clues in a mysterious case of mass stranding.

Tyrannosaurus rex may be the most famous dinosaur–and one of the strangest. Its unusual features have fueled a debate over its feeding habits. Was T. rex a fierce killer, or did it sniff out dead meat? Read the arguments and decide for yourself.

Alastair Humphreys had experienced adventures around the world, but he believed that people didn’t have to travel far, possess special skills, or spend a great deal of money to have an adventure. To prove it, he would take on a series of simple challenges—and he wanted everyone to join him.

A group of explorers slipped underground, hoping to discover a way to the bottom of the world’s deepest cave. If they succeeded, they’d set a world record. But first, they’d have to make it past dangerous cliffs, tight tunnels, and flooded passages, never knowing what they’d find around the next corner.

What can you do when you’re faced with a dull chore? Turn it into an incredible new sport! Discover how people used their imagination to turn the most boring activities into serious fun.

When Jane Walentas bought the carousel—a rare work of art—it had just survived a devastating fire and an auction that threatened to break it up into pieces. Jane was determined to restore the carousel to its original beauty, but she didn’t know what she was getting into.

THE TIME: the early 1800s
THE PLACE: Louisiana, U.S.A.
Jean Laffite, a well-known smuggler and pirate, is a wanted man in the United States. Authorities in Louisiana have offered a reward for his capture. At the same time, ships from Great Britain are close by. The British are preparing to attack the city of New Orleans. British leaders ask Laffite, who knows the waters around the city better than anyone, to help them. They even offer him a bribe if he’ll do it. Will Laffite accept their offer, or will he help defend the country that wants him in jail?

In a deep canyon in Mexico, Native American runners perform feats that most athletes can only dream about.

Frogs need water to survive, so what can a frog do when it lives in a desert? On opposite sides of the world, frogs have amazing strategies for making it through the long, dry season.

Two men in different countries each had an unusual idea. One wanted to build an organ that would be played by the waves of the sea, and the other wanted to make an organ from stalactites hanging inside a famous cave. By working in harmony with nature, each man hoped to turn his idea into reality.

With their lightning-fast punch and secret message system, mantis shrimps do things no other animal can do. These ocean predators are so unusual that scientists think these shrimps might inspire new inventions.

On the islands of Yap, people use money that seems strange to outsiders. It doesn’t look like any other kind of money in the world, and some of it is so heavy that its owners can’t even take it home with them. But this money is so valuable that many men risked their lives to get it.

Many of the world’s frogs went missing. Some hadn’t been seen in more than a hundred years. Were they gone forever? Scientists went on a worldwide hunt to find them.

Jackie can’t wait to join her high school’s new drama club–until she sees what the first meeting is  like. Is this just a rocky start, or is it a sign that the new club is doomed?

Dr. Ben LaBrot came up with a clever plan to reach people who live far from medical care. His crew of volunteers would need plenty of help to make his idea float. Then, after months of hard work, an earthquake struck, and the team had no time to waste.

In the early 1900s, a horse named Hans astounded audiences in Berlin, Germany, with his math skills. He could add, subtract, multiply, divide–even figure out square roots! It seemed impossible that a horse could solve math problems, so a researcher set out to solve the mystery: Did Hans really know how to do math? Or did the horse have some other amazing ability that allowed him to get the answers right?

When strangers visited Boonville, they couldn’t believe their ears. Nothing anyone said seemed to make sense. That’s because the people in this small town had invented their own secret language.

Humans and other creatures have intriguing ways of surviving the cold or heat, some that they do on purpose, and others that happen automatically. Whether it’s a duck swimming in an icy pond or a camel traveling across a scorching desert, each uses different strategies that are perfect for each creature—and some are hard to believe.

Something had to be wrong with Jet, our family’s new Border Collie puppy. She moved like a furry cyclone and was literally tearing down the walls in our house. Just when we thought we couldn’t take any more, we discovered the REAL problem–and it wasn’t Jet.

Deep in the waters of a remote lake was the answer to a mystery that had lasted for 125 years. With the help of two robot subs, an international team of scientists hoped to finally solve the case.

If you wanted to turn heads in the Roman Empire, all you had to do was wear purple–but that was easier said than done. Purple clothing was hard to make and harder to afford. And, if you didn’t follow the rules, this special color could cost you your life.

When a sea turtle is sick or injured, it’s a unique emergency. Not only is this one turtle in trouble, but its entire species is also in danger of becoming extinct. Take a tour of a hospital where the staff does whatever it takes to nurse these endangered patients back to health.