Washoe County Library System

"What's the buzz about bees? Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about bees and why we need them - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Save the Bees is a beautifully designed reader all about bees - how they pollinate plants and make honey, and how we should look after them. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using...

"A sweet picture book to boost our self-esteem and fly high! Join Little Bizzy as she shows the world how we can stop doubting our actions and reach our fullest potential. Little Bizzy is smaller than all the other bees, but she’s very capable. She easily collects twice as much pollen as her friends. But Bizzy dreams of greater things. She wants to fly high in the sky with the birds! Of course, the others don’t believe it, but Bizzy knows that...

"An intergenerational story of family ties, cultural pride, and spelling bee victory following a young boy who bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish. As a boy prepares for his school’s Spanish spelling bee, he asks his grandmother for help with some of the words he doesn’t know how to spell yet. When she studies with him, she tells him how different things were back when she was a girl, when she was only allowed to speak English...

"A nonfiction picture book that tells the fascinating story of the honeybee colonies that lived on the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and survived the devastating 2019 fire"--

'From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination: the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox. MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid. Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary. In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC,...

"Kids will be inspired to embrace their inner weirdness and persevere through obstacles after reading this empowering collection of true stories from teenage Scripps National Spelling Bee champ and Guinness World Record holder Zaila Avant-garde! Includes 8 pages of never-before-seen photos. After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People...

Lola learns all about bees when she visits her mother's friend, Zora, who is a beekeeper. ''In the latest Lola Reads book, Lola learns about urban beekeeping in this simple and charming introduction to the importance of bees. Lola is buzzing with excitement! She is off to visit beekeeper Zora and meet her honeybees. At Zora's, Lola goes up to the roof to see the hives. Lola wears a special suit so she can get up close. She sees the queen bee, the...

"Ten-year-old Kinjal knows something strange is going on. But he does not expect his dog, Thums-up, to disappear before his eyes in the middle of the night! Even stranger, two enormous flying horses appear and insist on taking Kinjal and his twin sister, Kiya, to a place they have never heard of: the Sky Kingdom. The twins have no choice but to go if they want to see their dog again, even if that isn't why the winged pakkhiraj horses showed up in...