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Curious Critters
David FitzSimmons - Wild Iris Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Photographer David FitzSimmons turns his camera on a variety of animals common throughout North America. CURIOUS CRITTERS presents stunning images of everyday animals, including a red flat bark beetle, an Eastern spiny softshell turtle, a spotted salamander, and many other intriguing creatures.... |
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Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals
NICOLA DAVIES - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned picture book creators Nicola Davies and Petr Horcek team up for a captivating first look at animals around the world.Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - animals are everywhere. In a remarkable collection... |
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Disgusting Plants
Perish Patrick
Format: Hardcover
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"Engaging images accompany information about disgusting plants. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"-- |
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Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
Steve Jenkins - Harcourt
Format: Print book
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How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world collectively weigh? How far can animals travel? Steve Jenkins answers these questions and many more with numbers, images, innovation, and authoritative science in his latest work of illustrated... |
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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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Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
Steve Jenkins - Houghton Mifflin Co.
Format: Print book
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The award-winning team of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? and Move! once again create a nonfiction picture book that is amazingly beautiful, fun, and filled with all sorts of interesting facts. Here, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page investigate sibling relationships throughout the animal... |
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Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Isabella Hatkoff - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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The amazing true story of the orphaned baby hippo and 130-year-old giant turtle whose remarkable friendship touched millions around the world.The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee (Mm-ZAY) . When Owen was stranded... |
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Could a Robot Make My Dinner?: And other questions about Technology
Kay Barnham - Raintree
Format: Library Binding
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Could a robot make my dinner? Why do we need rockets to go into space? Why don't cranes fall over? This book takes a fun look at technology by asking and answering a series of quirky yet thought-provoking questions such as these! Although primarily a recreational read, the book nevertheless... |
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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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Seven and a Half Tons of Steel
Janet Nolan - Peachtree Publishers
Format: Print book
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There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once... |
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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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This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
Dave Eggers - McSweeney's
Format: Hardcover
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The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world's only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn't supposed to be that way.In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened... |
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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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Dolphin Rescue: A True-Life Story
Jinny Johnson - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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The thoroughly moving books in the Born Free series tell the stories of wild animals around the world that have been saved from a lifetime of cruelty and suffering.The Born Free Foundations mission is to protect many different species in their natural habitats, working with local communities... |
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Poop Detectives: Working Dogs in the Field
Ginger Wadsworth - Charlesbridge
Format: Print book
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How can dogs that sniff for excrement, urine, vomit, and mucus help protect animals from extinction? Scat-detection dogs like Wicket, Tucker, and Orbee are conservation heroes and pioneers in a cutting-edge field of science. Canine detec-tives use their super sense of smell to locate the scat... |
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Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero
PATRICIA MCCORMICK - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine.When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest... |
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Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
Sara Green - Pilot
Format: Hardcover
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When a bomb-sniffing dog sits down on the job, it means there may be explosives nearby. But to the dog, it only means one thing: a treat is on its way. Bomb-sniffing dogs have saved many lives doing the dangerous work that, to them, is just a game. See these super smellers in action in this... |
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If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
Giles Laroche - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Format: Print book
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If You Lived Here: Houses of the World Step into unique homes from around the world and discover the many fascinating ways in which people live and have lived. If you lived in the mountains of southern Spain, your bedroom might be carved out of a mountain. If you lived in a village in South... |
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