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Come along on an adventure through the rain forest. Along the way, you'll meet new friends big and small, see amazing sights, and learn all about the creatures that make their home in the rain forest. Told in simple yet lively text built with sight words and using picture icons to aid reading, National Geographic Pre-readers will enchant kids just beginning their journey with books.
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Pub. Date
2008
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240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
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A collection of maps, histories, sketches, and stories created by C.S. Lewis as a child to describe his private fantasy world, known as Animal-Land or Boxen. A scholarly introduction explains the stories in the context of Lewis's life.
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"Hermit crabs might not be the first example that comes to mind when thinking about power in animal relationships, but they are representative of the costs, benefits, assessment, and struggles that animal behaviorist Lee Dugatkin explains in Power in the Wild. Besides learning that researchers can evict all crabs from their shells by tickling their abdomens with paintbrushes, readers discover that attacker crabs can assess both the quality of shells...
10) Animal farm
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Everyman's library volume 150
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Animal Farm" is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Dive in with these fascinating creatures of the sea! Can animals be identified by just one of their distinctive parts? Readers get the chance to find out in this guessing-game picture book. First, they are shown a body part and asked which ocean animal it belongs to. Then, the following spread reveals the whole animal, along with a description of its characteristics - particularly its one-of-a-kind body part - and habitat. From fins to flippers and...
12) Sea bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Did you know that Jellies (not Jelly Fish--because they aren't actually fish) have no bones and no brains? Or that the largest animal on Earth is the blue whale? Join author-illustrator Bob Barner as he makes waves with this lush picture book about the sea featuring his signature rhyming text and colorful illustrations. Filled with incredible fishy facts about vertebrates, invertebrates, endoskeletons, and exoskeletons, and an underwater informational...
13) Duck on a bike
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Duck (David Shannon) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.
14) Safari
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Introduces young wildlife enthusiasts to an array of creatures in their natural habitats on the African Savannah.
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Zoe's rescue zoo volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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750L
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The Rescue Zoo is Zoe's home. When she finds out it might have to close, she is determined to come up with a plan to save it. If she doesn't, friendly seal pup, Star, might end up homeless.
17) Invisible lizard
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Napoleon the chameleon tries to make friends with animals that live near him in the jungle, but has a hard time being seen.
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