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Explanatorium of Nature
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK Children
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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This stunning visual reference for kids explores the natural world in stunning detail and allows young readers to see nature as they never have before, through amazing close-ups and cross-sections, exploded images, X-rays, and more.From fruit to flies, from coral to clouds, from mountains... |
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The Getaway
JEFF KINNEY · Amulet Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town. With the cold weather and the stress of the approaching holiday season, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled... |
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Boy Bites Bug
Rebecca Petruck · Amulet Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Will didn't plan to eat a stinkbug. But when his friend Darryl called new kid Eloy Herrera a racial slur, Will did it as a diversion. Now Will is Bug Boy, and everyone is cracking up inventing insect meals for him, like French flies and maggot-aroni and fleas. Turns out eating bugs for food... |
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Caribou
Megan Borgert-Spaniol · Bellwether Media
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding
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Caribou are the reindeer of North America! These hoofed mammals grow huge antlers on their heads every year. The most impressive antlers can measure as long as 4 feet! This book calls elementary readers to join caribou in migrating the continents northernmost forest and tundra biomes. |
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Avalanche!
Terry Lynn Johnson · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white.... |
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Sedimentary Rocks
Roberta Baxter · The Child's World
Pages: 24
Format: Print book
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Learn about types of sedimentary rocks, how they form, wherethey are found, and how we use them every day.Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled captions and sidebars, detailed photographs, infographics or informational diagrams, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary,... |
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Jonny Jakes Investigates the Hamburgers of Doom
Malcolm Judge · Stone Arch Books
Pages: 231
Format: Print book
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Meet Jonny Jakes, undercover reporter for banned school newspaper The Woodford Word. Nothing will stop his pursuit of the truth. Not teachers. Not parents. Not even detention. When a new principal arrives halfway through the semester, Jonny smells a rat. Teachers handing out candy? All-you-can-eat... |
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The Dam Keeper
Robert Kondo · First Second
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant... |
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Amphibian Life Cycles
Bray Jacobson · Gareth Stevens Pub
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
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Amphibians have some of the most interesting life cycles on Earth. The metamorphosis frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians go through has many steps that readers need to understand and remember. This book offers a concise overview of the general amphibian life cycle as well as representative... |
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Back from the Brink: Saving Animals from Extinction
Nancy Castaldo · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Sniffer Dogs details the successful efforts of scientists to bring threatened animals back from the brink of extinction, perfect for animal lovers and reluctant nonfiction readers. With full-color photography.How could capturing the last wild California condors help... |
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Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Inc. · Merriam-Webster
Pages: 824
Format: Paperback
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Perfect resource for school or home with over 36,000 entries200 new words & senses (many from technology & life sciences)Expanded usage examples, include nearly 1,300 quotes from classic andcontemporary children's literature250 word history paragraphs and over 120 synonym paragraphsMore... |
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Chupacabras
Peter Castellano · Gareth Stevens
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Some say a fierce, hairless, doglike animal terrorizes livestock, draining them of their blood. Called the chupacabra, this animal is a legend derived from the sighting of a freaky creature in San Juan, Puerto Rico. But the original sighting and todays reports dont match up, and no conclusive... |
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Poison Is Not Polite
Robin Stevens · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A tea party takes a poisonous turn leaving Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in the second novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series.Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy's glamorous mother is throwing a tea party... |
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Narwhal
Christina Leaf · Bellwether Media
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"Engaging images accompany information about narwhals. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- |
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