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Text organized into posters, newspaper articles, and comics teaches young readers about ten common invasive species from around the world, exploring how they got into new ecosystems, the damage they've caused, how scientists are working to contain them, and what average people can do to help.
"What do cane toads, cats and Burmese pythons have in common? They're invading our ecosystems! Learn about 10 common invasive species from around the world,...
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viii, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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"From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular culture as killing machines, we are awed by their power and strength. But the shark is so much more, a marvel of the sea, they have evolved over 450 million years into over 500 species, from the bioluminescent...
43) Bears
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Encounter polar bears in the Arctic, black bears in Montana, and grizzlies in Alaska as you learn about the challenges facing each of these species and why protecting them benefits both wildlife and people.
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112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm.
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Shares stories and facts that reveal the real-life survival challenges that have caused polar bears to become endangered, and provides information about what kids can do to support conservation efforts.
45) We need bats
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"Explores the roles of bats in ecosystems, including bats' importance to ecosystems, threats to bat populations, and conservation efforts. Features sidebars, two infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature"--
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Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Science Activities for Kids introduces middle schoolers to the evolution of life on Earth, beginning with the first single-celled organisms that emerged 3.8 billion years ago to the complex, multi-celled organisms that exist today and make up the tree of life. Biodiversity is found everywhere on the planet--on land, in the water, and even in extreme environments such as ice and volcanoes. Biodiversity...
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Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots -- in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems./Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water...
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Bengal tigers are an endangered species, due to many human-caused factors, such as poaching, habitat destruction, and global warming. In Robert Wells' signature style, this book explores these difficult topics in a child-friendly manner with endearing illustrations, and it gives kids ways they can help to save the tigers, too.
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xv, 332 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Former Natural History Museum (London) paleontologist Fortey gives us the stories of those plants, animals, and other creatures that have survived from Earth's early days--the planet's "true marathon runners."
52) Gorillas
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72 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
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"Out on the edges of our frantic twenty-first-century nation, bands of wild horses stand nestled together, calmly nuzzling each other to maintain the bonds of family. Prairie hills unfurl around them, and the sky provides their shelter. In the same states where factories churn, offices bustle, and cell phones demand our attention, remote places of solace and beauty rest, mostly undiscovered, in a parallel world that lies closer than we often imagine....
54) Saving stuff: how to care for and preserve your collectibles, heirlooms, and other prize possessions
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xxviii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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77 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Did you know that rhinoceroses are the second biggest land animal in the world, second only to elephants? How about that rhinos have especially poor eyesight? Or that white and black rhinos are called that even though neither of them is black or white?
57) We need sharks
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"Explores the roles of sharks in ocean ecosystems, including sharks' importance to ecosystems, threats to shark populations, and conservation efforts. Features sidebars, two infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature"--
58) We need wolves
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"Explores the roles of wolves in ecosystems, including wolves' importance to ecosystems, threats to wolf populations, and conservation efforts. Features sidebars, two infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature"--
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xiv, 271 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"Four decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their population has surged to more than 1,500, and this burgeoning number of grizzlies now collides with the increasingly populated landscape of the twenty-first-century American West. While humans and bears have long shared space, today's grizzlies navigate...
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In an exuberantly poetic work that is less about bees and more about life, Maurice Maeterlinck expresses his philosophy of the human condition. The renowned Belgian poet and dramatist offers brilliant proof in this, his most popular work, that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck...
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