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This book relays the factual details of the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a fireman fighting fires and rescuing others, a girl whose home is destroyed, and a resident of Chinatown. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical...
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In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's...
24483) Islands
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This book uses math and science to help students learn about Islands. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of islands.
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A swashbuckling narrative of treachery and obsession involving pirates, fur seals, competing governments, and near war.
"Roar of the Sea vividly recreates one of the earliest battles between commerce and conservation: the struggle over the fate of the Pribilof Islands fur seals, once considered 'America's most valuable wildlife.' In this engrossing and timely book, Deb Vanasse shows how ego, ambition, and misinformation can collide with good science...
24485) The Frigid Arctic Ocean
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The Arctic Ocean is a hard place to live. Frigidly cold, the ocean freezes during the long, dark winters. In summer, you can still find ice there. Readers will discover the plants and animals that live in, on, and near this special place, and the scientists who explore its mysteries.
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The vibrant Sanibel and Captiva Islands are ecological marvels compared to Florida's many overbuilt barrier islands. Development began with the construction of the Sanibel Island Lighthouse in 1884, when only the lighthouse keeper and assistant and their families lived on the island. Noted conservationist Jay N. "Ding" Darling led the charge in preserving the islands' wildlife and natural beauty from the greed of real estate speculators and land developers...
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The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across the Colorado River. This book follows the epic construction project and the brief golden era of the pleasure resort at Lake McDonald. Though troubled...
24488) Glaciers
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This book uses math and science to help students learn about glaciers. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of glaciers.
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Less than an hour by train from New York City...
“Croton Point Park” encapsulates the history, beauty and promise of the Hudson Valley. The Westchester County Park encompasses miles of Hudson River shoreline with astonishing views and remnants of the region's past. Incredible shell mounds shed light on the Native peoples who inhabited the area generations prior to European colonization. The remains of the first commercial vineyards in the Northeast...
24490) Continents
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This book uses math and science to help students learn about Continents. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of the world's continents.
24491) Lost!
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Survivor diaries volume 3
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A high-stakes survival series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet.
Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive.
An ancient myth about a statue leads eleven-year-old Carter and twelve-year-old Anna down a trail deep into the Costa Rican jungle. They get turned around, then chased by howler monkeys. Carter and Anna try to find their way back to the familiar path, but the tangle of vines and trees all look the same. They are... lost!
With seventeen...
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Reduce waste, have a plastic-free party, make a protest sculpture, and more!
Calling all bold, brave, green, heroic, caring, daring, dreaming, mindful, shouting, creative, rescuing resourceful Earth-warriors! Full of super creative ideas and activities, the pages of this book will help you fight the effects of climate change, reduce carbon emissions, and help save the planet.
With this engaging book, you can do your part and help protect the world...
24493) Underground
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In 1839, visitors from miles around come to Kentucky to tour Mammoth Cave. But, sixteen-year-old Charlotte, the maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, doesn't understand its appeal. As a slave, she is already trapped, and she doesn't see the point in risking being trapped underground as well. Still, she's curious when Stephen Bishop, another slave who is the cave's expert guide and chief explorer, makes some big discoveries underground, and she's interested...
24494) Weather
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Following the scientific process, this title provides instructions on how to conduct experiments that help students gain a better understanding of the earth's weather.
24495) Be Thankful for Water
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Would life be fun without water? It would not!
Pools for lap swimming, ponds for row boating,
Lazy rivers for paddling and floating,
Canoe in a creek, sail on the blue sea,
And on a big lake stand on one ski.
Snorkel in the ocean, what's down in the deep?
Jump in and splash from a cliff so steep!
Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many way that water is essential to our lives and the existence of life on earth. But...
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As governments, corporations, and settlers race to take the world's forests for their own, what happens to the indigenous peoples who live there? Are they at the mercy of overwhelming forces, destined to lose livelihood, identity, and respect as they are dispossessed and assimilated? This account of the Dulangan Manobo-an indigenous people of the Philippines whose rainforest homeland is being appropriated by loggers and settlers from the country's...
24497) Plains and Plateaus
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This book uses math and science to help students learn about plains and plateaus. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of plains and plateaus.
24499) Big cats
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PBS Distribution
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Goes inside the largest animals on the planet to explore their anatomy, reveal their intricate inner workings and uncover their evolutionary secrets. In this episode, veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg dissect a lion and tiger. On the outside, the animals look very different; but once their skins are removed, even the experts find it hard to distinguish the two.
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Atria Books
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2014.
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ix, 324 pages ; 24 cm
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"Throughout the history of civilization, humans have embraced it in every form imaginable--as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, emblem of resurrection, all-purpose medicine, handy research tool, inspiration for bravery, epitome of evil, and, of course, as the star of the world's most famous joke. In [this book], science writer Andrew Lawler takes us on an adventure from prehistory to the modern era with a fascinating account...
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