Description What animals sting, poison, roll away or vomit to defend themselves? Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the amazing ways animals defend themselves from predators - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Animal Defenses is a beautifully designed reader all about animal defenses, from camouflage to claws, poisons to armor, and lots more. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about some of the world's stinky, slimy, shocking and invisible animals!