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1) Spineless
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Union Square Kids
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English
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"When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals...
2) Spineless
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This exciting middle-grade adventure is Hoot for the Gilded Age-with scientific discoveries, secret plots, and surprisingly enormous fauna.
When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species...
3) Spineless
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Eight years ago, I believed I'd finally found a place to call home. My mother's marriage to Vincent Sharpe meant security and three stepbrothers who were already my best friends. But Mom's mysterious death one week before the wedding turned my world upside down. The day of her funeral, I was whisked away to live with my aunt in Kansas, and I never heard from the Sharpes again... Until a devastating tornado leaves me destitute. Now, Vincent is offering...
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2017.
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English
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A former ocean biologist describes how she rediscovered her passion for marine science while investigating the enigmatic jellyfish and what the species' unique physiologies can teach about engineering and environmental stability.
"Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic it can kill a human in three minutes. Their sting--microscopic...
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When we think of intelligent creatures, we often think of vertebrates, or animals with spinal columns and relatively large brains. We don't usually think of invertebrates, or animals without a spine. But invertebrates can be astonishingly intelligent. These animals exhibit surprising feats of learning, memory, and problem-solving using their relatively simple, tiny brains some the size of a sesame seed or even smaller. In fact, some intelligent invertebrates...
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We humans have a word for the feeling, whether actual or imagined, that creepy invertebrates are crawling over our skin. That word is formication, and the implied sense of horror and fascination, contends Richard Conniff, is something many of us actually crave. His Spineless Wonders presents an "unabashed wallow in the joy of formication." Spineless Wonders is an engaging, sophisticated, and humorous mix of natural history and human lore. Through...
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Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A wary and unadventurous book uses its different parts, such as the jacket, gutters, and endpapers, to try and get a sense of what kind of story might be on its pages. By navigating the book's contents together, the reader and the book become friends and the book becomes braver"--
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In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors--in nature's fashion show, they are the haute couture of marine life. This collection of more than 250 remarkable images is the result of seven years of painstaking...
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Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Explore the various regions of the world's oceans and learn about the many invertebrates that dwell there. First-person accounts from scientists answer important questions about the adaptations of spineless creatures."--
10) Jellyfish
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Readers will learn just how amazing jellyfish can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, jellyfish have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
11) Sea Cucumbers
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English
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea cucumbers can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea cucumbers have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
12) Sea Urchins
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea urchins can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea urchins have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
13) Sea Anemones
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English
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea anemones can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea anemones have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
14) Sea Anemones
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea anemones can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea anemones have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
15) Sea Cucumbers
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English
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea cucumbers can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea cucumbers have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
16) Sea Urchins
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English
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Readers will learn just how amazing sea urchins can be. The many species of this ocean invertebrate may not look like other undersea animals, but they have some amazing adaptations and behaviors that help them survive. Without faces, limbs, bones, blood, or a brain, sea urchins have incredible ways eating, moving, reproducing, and defending themselves.
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