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1) Nature girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Passionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in humility. What Honey doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her obsessed former employer, Piejack, and her still-smitten ex-husband, Perry, with their protective and wise-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old son,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned scientists, brings us inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall-along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard-shares fascinating survival...
8) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
9) Crocs
Author
Series
Sharks Inc volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Marine biologist Doc Ford has a new mission for Sharks Inc.: visit Sanibel Island's remote Bone Field to find a wild orange tree that's survived a disease destroying Florida's citrus. There, the members of Sharks Incorporated find oranges unlike any they've ever seen, but can't find the tree Doc needs. Worse, the area is protected by a massive saltwater crocodile. What the team doesn't expect is to meet a reclusive woman who threatens to call the...
10) Plankton
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book discusses plankton and the impact they have on the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The wildlife veterinarian and environmental advocate shares highly visual profiles of amazing animals from around the world, covering subjects ranging from animal anatomy and behavior to the work of specialist caregivers and how kids can help protect endangered species.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a young girl, Suzi Eszterhas knew she wanted to be a wildlife photographer. But how did she go from snapping pictures of cats in her backyard to taking photos of cheetah cubs in Kenya? In this nonfiction picture-book biography, Eszterhas invites readers to find out what her life is like behind the lens. Spectacular photographs of animals paired with compelling anecdotes will instantly draw readers in. Each section of the book explores a unique...
15) Save the pandas
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Journey into the bamboo forest to meet the Pandas! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about pandas, everyone's favorite black-and-white bears - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Save the Pandas is a beautifully designed reader all about these amazing bears - where they live, what they eat, how they grow - and how we can...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Back from the Brink answers these questions and more as it delves into the threats to seven species, and the scientific and political efforts to coax them back from the brink of extinction. This rich, informational look at the problem of extinction has a hopeful tone: all of these animals' numbers are now on the rise.
Author
Series
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particular species in nature reserves as 'museum pieces', frozen in time, the thinking now is that we should allow landscape-sized areas to 'rewild' according to their own self-determined processes. By fencing off large areas and introducing large herbivores, along with apex predators such as wolves, dynamic new habitats are already being created. These 'self-willed'...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexa and the other children at her escuela in Costa Rica have a special project: they are raising American Crocodiles. She names her croc Jefe, which means "boss," because he seems to be in charge of all the other babies. Alexa brings him chicken and frogs to eat, and writes about his progress in her diary. Soon, her little hatchling is as big as a loaf of bread. He has grown into a juvenile and it is time for Alexa to say goodbye and for Jefe to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...
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