These challenge materials are for use with purchased ebook reading challenges, which school media specialists and librarians can order via their Challenges dashboard. Each ebook reading challenge includes three curated and leveled ebooks with perpetual simultaneous use licenses, so that your readers have unlimited access to top-notch reading content within Beanstack, anywhere and anytime your challenge is running.
About this Challenge
In this reading challenge and its curated ebooks, students can burrow into stories about astounding animals, habitats, and life science discoveries.
Ebook Reading Lists
Kindergarten
- “Hooray for Veterinarians!” by Kurt Waldendorf
- “I Love Cats” by Harold T. Rober
- “It's a Penguin!” by Kerry Dinmont
1st Grade
- “A Visit to the Zoo” by Rosalyn Clark
- “It's a Chimpanzee!” by Tessa Kenan
- “Animals in the Hot Desert” by Katie Peters
2nd Grade
- “Animals in Fall” written by Martha E. H. Rustad and illustrated by Amanda Enright
- “Do Chicks Ask for Snacks?” written by Martha E. H. Rustad and illustrated by Mike Moran
- “What Can Live in a Desert?” by Sheila Andereson
3rd Grade
- “City Animals” by Alex Francis
- “Animal Antics” written by Sam Schultz and illustrated by Brian Gable
- “Hero Service Dogs” by Jennifer Boothroyd
4th Grade
- “Bald Eagles” by Laura Hamilton Waxman
- “Piranhas” by Conrad J. Storad
- “Good Dogs Only” by Rebecca Felix
5th Grade
- “Dancing Bees and Other Amazing Communicators” by Mary Lindeen
- “Animal Scientist and Activist Jane Goodall” by Douglas Hustad
- “World's Grossest Animals” by Scott Nickel
6th Grade
- “Record-Breaking Animals” written by Ed Simkins and illustrated by Jon Richards
- “Surviving a Shark Attack” by Katie Marsico
- “World's Weirdest Sharks” by Paul Mason
7th Grade
- “Free-Range Farming” by Trina Mickelson
- “Key Discoveries in Life Science” by Christine Zuchora-Walske
- “Deadly Adorable Animals” by Nadia Higgins
8th Grade
- “White Fang” by Jack London
- “Dead Zones” by Carol Hand
- “Deadly Venomous Animals” by Matt Doeden
High School
- “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London
- “Extreme Longevity” by Karen Latchana Kenney
- “Into the Deep” by Christy Peterson
Challenge Materials
