What Lives in Your Backyard? is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.1 and Literacy.L.3.5b. This book challenges readers to explore ecosystems in their very own backyards, and illustrates what can live in your backyard with color photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "Backyard Ecosystems (9781477725511) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.