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Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the...
4) Beavers
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46 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"A scientific look at beavers, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their gnawing teeth, behaviors, relationships with humans, and abundance of the rodents in the world today"--
5) Beavers
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96 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Uses humor to describe why the beaver is such an extraordinary animal.
6) Beavers
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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"A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of beavers, nature's swimming engineers. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why beavers slap their tails"--
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49 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"Dive into the fascinating world of beavers -- the swimmers, builders, and engineers of the animal kingdom! What Goes on inside a Beaver Pond? takes kids ages 8 to 10 on a journey through a year in the life of a young beaver (called a "kit"). Throughout the seasons, vibrant illustrations and descriptions reveal the hidden inner-workings of a beaver lodge, how beavers fell trees with their teeth and create a wetland habitat, how they collect food and...
13) Buck's tooth
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"All beavers have flat tails and furry coats. Most beavers have two front teeth. And then there's Buck. Unlike the rest of his family, he has one gigantic front tooth--and he hates it! His tooth ruins everything for him, especially the Annual Talent Show. Whatever Buck tries to do for the contest-- whistle, walk on stilts, blow bubbles-- his tooth gets in the way. Can Buck learn to embrace his inner tooth?"--Publisher. [This is an easy-to-read illustrated...
14) Doris's dinosaur
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pages cm.
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When Mrs. Jenkins proposes the class paint dinosaurs, Doris's unusual artistic talent is not recognized until the class visits a modern art museum.
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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This collection includes the first two books in the Super Happy party bears chapter book series!
This collection includes the first two books in the Super Happy Party Bears chapter book series! In Gnawing around, "When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a...
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Flying beaver brothers volume 3
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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Ace and Bub stand up to nearsighted Captain Jo Jo and his crew of moles, who are stealing dirt from Beaver Island to make their own island home bigger.
18) The haunting
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Secret of Glendunny volume 1
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xiv, 268 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the wilds of Scotland, a secret colony of beavers have been hiding in plain sight, safe from humans who crave their fur, until Dunwattle, a young beaver kit, exposes their hidden colony and faces a fate worse than death.
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction...
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Flying beaver brothers volume 6
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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When Ace and Bub compete in a race to win a new houseboat, they unwittingly plant fast-spreading vines instead of trees on the Shark Tooth Islands, forcing their inhabitants to live in the sea.
20) Barcos para papá
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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Español
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Buckley y su mama viven en una casita cerca del mar. Cada vez que hay un dia especial, Buckley construye un barco de madera para su papa. Mama prepara un picnic y juntos van a comer a la playa. Despues de comer, Buckley pone el barco en el agua con una nota que dice para papa, con carino, con la esperanza de que su papa efectivamente reciba ambas cosas.
Buckley and his Mama live in a cozy cabin by the ocean. He loves to carve boats out of the driftwood...
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