Landon’s Local Government is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.5 and Literacy.L.3.4b. Readers will join Landon on his field trip to city hall, gaining an understanding of the workings of local government and the services it provides to the community, in this book with full-page color photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. A graphic organizer is included. This book should be paired with My Local Government (9781477725726) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.