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Animal School: What Class Are You?
Michelle Lord - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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In this poetic exploration of the five vertebrate classifications—mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish—animals come to life in lush color. Elephants to pygmy wrasses, vertebrates are grouped by classes.Each class gets the spotlight in breathtaking digital woodcut art accompanied... |
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Tooth by Tooth: Comparing Fangs, Tusks, and Chompers
Sara Levine - Millbrook Press
Format: Print book
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What animal would you be if a few of your teeth grew so long that they stuck out of your mouth even when it was closed? What would you be if your top canine teeth grew almost all the way down to your feet? This picture book will keep you guessing as you read about how human teeth are like... |
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Plant a Pocket of Prairie
Phyllis Root - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota’s important ecosystems: the prairie.Once... |
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Eye to Eye: How Animals See The World
Steve Jenkins - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In his latest eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, the Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes - clusters of light-sensitive... |
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A Rock Is Lively
Dianna Aston - Amicus
Format: Book
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From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, and A Butterfly Is Patient comes a gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks. From dazzling blue lapis lazuli to volcanic snowflake obsidian, an incredible variety of rocks are showcased... |
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A Seed Is Sleepy
Dianna Hutts Aston - Chronicle
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally... |
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How Big Were Dinosaurs?
Lita Judge - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a Velociraptor for a walk, or try to brush a Tyrannosaur's teeth? We think of dinosaurs as colossal giants, but how big were they REALLY? With kid-friendly text and seriously silly illustrations, this fact-filled book puts dinosaurs next... |
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From Acorn to Oak Tree
Emma Carlson Berne - Lerner Publications
Format: Library Binding
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How does a little acorn grow into a huge oak tree? Follow each step in nature's cycle - from falling acorns to strong oak trees - in this fascinating book! |
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Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
Brian Dennis - Little
Format: Print book
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Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share... |
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Race the Wild Wind: A Story of the Sable Island Horses
Sandra Markle - Walker Childrens
Format: Print book
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From acclaimed science writer Sandra Markle comes a fascinating survival story about the wild horses of Sable Island. During a shipwreck, a young stallion leads a band of horses to safety on an arc of golden land-Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. In gorgeously illustrated panoramic... |
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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
Jacqueline Briggs Martin - Readers to Eaters
Format: Audiobook
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Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage, or a basketball, in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot he saw a huge... |
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Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin
Michelle Cusolito - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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Climb aboard Alvin, the famous deep-sea submersible credited with helping to find the Titanic, and take a trip two miles down to the bottom of the ocean.Experience a day in the life of an Alvin pilot and join scientists at the seafloor to collect samples and conduct research. Along the way,... |
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Locomotive
Brian Floca - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Caldecott Medal Winner, Sibert Honor Book, and New York Times bestseller Locomotive is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early railroads, from the creator of the "stunning" (BOOKLIST ) Moonshot.It is the summer of 1869, and trains,... |
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Running on sunshine : how does solar energy work
Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano - Harper
Format: Print book
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"The sun is a source of energy for living things. Energy that comes from sunshine is called solar energy. But how does solar energy work? And how can we use solar energy to not only stay on the cutting-edge of technology, but to help keep the environment healthy?" |
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Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
Gene Barretta - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover
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What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange,... |
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How Things Work: Facts and fun, questions and answers, things to make and do
Sophie Dauvois - Thames & Hudson, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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An interactive book that answers all the questions young children have about how things work, from the creators of the innovative art-and-science magazine and television showHow Things Work is designed to appeal to and encourage the curiosity that young children have about the objects around... |
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