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1) Whales
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Language
English
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Do you know what whale is the world's largest animal? Or which whale's head is up to one-third the length of its entire body? Or why some whales sing to one another? This book provides young readers with answers to these and other questions about whales.
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Language
English
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A lively travelogue through the history, literature, and lore of the king of the sea. Since his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale, author Philip Hoare has been obsessed with whales. Journeying through human and natural history, this book is the result of his voyage of discovery into the heart of this obsession. Taking us deep into their domain, Hoare shows us these mysterious creatures as they have...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises-those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair, have teeth or baleen, swim in troops, spyhop, spin, breach, and see via ecolocation, kids are introduced to almost 20 different species-including sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and...
9) Amos & Boris
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawing on their own research as well as scientific literature including evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, two cetacean biologists submerge themselves in the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live. --Publisher's description.
11) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Series
Language
English
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"It's not just humans working to combat global warming. Meet the ecosystem engineers who are improving our planet's health! In this unique look at how one animal can make a difference for the planet, Adrienne Mason, a marine biologist, reveals how whales are ecosystem engineers--animals that create, modify, or maintain a habitat or ecosystem"--
13) Song for a whale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
17) Beluga whales
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn how beluga whales live and survive in the ocean. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the mammal's appearance, diet, life cycle, and behaviors. Take a Look! infographics highlight and label the mammal's range and habitat as well as its anatomy. Sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an activity offers readers an...
18) Deep wizardry
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
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Series
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Long ago, whales could eat anything - and they did. Then one day, everything changed. This story, adapted from one of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' has been specially written for children who are learning to read, with colorful illustrations on each page and puzzles and fun facts about whales at the back of the book.
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