How Food Gets from Farms to Store Shelves

by Erika L. Shores

Overview

How did the bananas on your breakfast cereal get to your local grocery store? Easy-to-understand text explains how food gets from farms to stores and describes the role of the community workers who make it all possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491484364
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Series:	Here to There
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	1,104,750
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Erika L. Shores has written dozens of nonfiction books for kids. She studied English and Spanish at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She lives in Minnesota with her two kids, a big orange cat, and a small, fluffy dog.

Table of Contents

Where food comes from — Collecting milk — Making cereal — Traveling far — Working together.

Interviews

photo labels, full-color photographs, glossary, index

Editorial Reviews

This book offers an overview of the journeys of three common foods from farm to factory to grocery store. Large stock photos show different phases of production and diverse families enjoying breakfast. . . .The book introduces nonfiction conventions and provides Common Core applications.

Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book