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Catchy desert twists on traditional children's songs and poems will have children chiming in about cactuses, camels, and more as they learn about the desert habitat and its flora and fauna. Whether sung or read aloud, Deep in the Desert makes learning about deserts anything but dry. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor and rhyming text includes a 5-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 58-page cross-curricular...
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Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan's history-and one of the world's five most powerful since 1900-devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Tokyo. It triggered a huge tsunami that left crippling damage in its wake. More than 13,000 people drowned, and thousands of buildings and homes were reduced to rubble. As people assessed the damage, they made the most frightening discovery of all: the...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers!
Meet animals that live in the desert, including camels, lizards, owls, snakes, spiders, and tortoises. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, No Bugs Here.
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers!
Meet fascinating animals that live in polar regions, including harp seals, leopard seals, orcas, penguins, polar bears, and walruses. Which ones live at both poles? Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, The Little Penguin.
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A vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near future-politically, economically, and culturally
While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and began to wonder what current and impending-and largely unanticipated-crises such changes have in store for the world.
Forecast provides the answers.
Global warming...
8) Coral Reefs
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Coral reefs are found in tropical waters and host a variety of ocean life. Young readers will learn about how they form over time, the different ways they form, and the creatures that call coral reefs home.
9) Forests
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There are many different kinds of forests that have many different kinds of trees. Discover what trees are found in each kind of forest and how dead trees help young trees grow.
10) Oceans
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Watch out for that big wave! Oceans cover a large part of Earth and support a wide variety of plants and animals. Young readers will learn about the tides, waves, and currents of the ocean as well as what lives beneath the surface.
11) Mountains
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Take a climb high into the mountains! This basic introduction to mountains explains the different kinds of mountains, how mountains form, and how people use mountains for recreational activities.
12) Prairies
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The United States was once abundant with prairies. Some have been converted to farmland, but other prairies still thrive. Students will learn how a prairie changes through the seasons, what animals live on prairies, and how people are working to restore prairie land.
13) Deserts
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Deserts are vast areas of the Earth with very little moisture. There can be both hot deserts and cold deserts. Students will learn the difference between hot and cold deserts and how desert plants and animals survive the harsh conditions.
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Frogs, minnows, snails, ducks, catfish, and muskrats are a few of the animals that make up a lake and pond food web. But do you know why mosquitoes, mold, water lilies, and bacteria are important too? Or how humans can change the health of a lake or a pond? See lake and pond food webs in action in this fascinating book.
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Seals, otters, oysters, fish, pelicans, and sharks are a few of the animals that make up an ocean food web. But did you know that almost all ocean creatures depend on algae to live? Or that bacteria, crabs, and lobsters break down dead plants and animals into nutrients? See ocean food webs in action in this fascinating book.
19) I See the Ocean
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Dive beneath the waves to meet the crab, fish, turtles, whales, and seaweed that live in the ocean habitat. Pair this photo-illustrated nonfiction title with its fiction companion book, The Fish.
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"Prairie dogs, vultures, grasshoppers, goldfinches, pocket gophers, and bison are some of the many animals that make up a grassland food web. But do you know how the many types of grasses in a grassland benefit these animals? Or how earthworms and other decomposers play an important role in the food web?"--Back cover.
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