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Packed With Poison!: Deadly Animal Defenses (On My Own Science)

D. M. Souza · Millbrook Pr
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

Grade 1-3–Sousa discusses venomous animals that use their poisons to defend themselves and capture prey. The short chapters have broad subject titles and focus on only a few creatures as examples. Venom in the Sea is devoted to the Australian box jellyfish and the stingray. Tiny...
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Rappy Goes to the Library

Dan Gutman · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When Rappy the Raptor's class goes to the library, it's all Rappy can do not to be noisy. Can he keep his rapping quiet, or will he start a book riot? When students are finding the library a bore, quick-thinking Rappy uses his rhyming skills to save the day!Beginning readings will...
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Indian Ocean

Louise Spilsbury · Heinemann
Format: Print book

This book introduces children to the Indian Ocean, looking at islands and how the Equator affects temperature and weather. The ocean floor and native animals are explored using key geography terms. Children are encouraged to use geographical skills to locate information by reading maps...
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Batman Classic: The Penguin's Arctic Adventure

Donald Lemke · HarperFestival
Format: Book

Young Super Hero fans will be excited to see Batman and Robin take on the Penguin in this brand-new 8 x 8 illustrated storybook.When Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, also known as the Penguin, opens an exotic animals garden in Gotham City, Batman investigates to discover if the garden has a connection...
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Prairie Chicken Little

Jackie Mims Hopkins · Peachtree Publishers
Format: Book

In this prairie-style twist on Chicken Little, Mary McBlicken hears a rumble and is sure a stampede s a comin ! She sets off to warn Cowboy Stan and Red Dog Dan, gathering up her friends along the way. Before they can get there though, the band of prairie critters gets tricked by a mean...
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Energy island : how one community harnessed the wind and changed their world

Allan Drummond · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Format: Print book

It's windy on the Danish island of Samsø. Meet the environmentally friendly folks who, in a few short years, worked together for energy independence, and who now proudly call their home Energy Island.
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Curious George Builds a Tree House

H. A. Rey · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

George is tired of following the house rules - he wants a place of his own where he can draw on the walls and eat corn on the cob with his feet! He decides to build a tree house in the yard, but quickly learns that creating a house from scratch just might take more than a pile of plywood...
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Therapy Dogs

Kimberly M. Hutmacher · Pebble Plus
Format: Print book

Visiting hospital patients and going to schools is all in a day’s work for these friendly dogs. Learn all about what it takes to be a therapy dog.
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Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg

Lori Mortensen · Clarion Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Cowpoke Clyde's house was completely clean - he'd even shooed off the horseflies: "Then right behind his cookin' pot, / he spied one thing he'd plumb forgot: / ol' Dawg, his faithful, snorin' friend, / all caked with mud from end to end." Needless to say,...
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