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A New York Times 2018 Holiday Gift Selection
Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees-endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies-is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Our Native Bees explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. The people and stories are compelling:...
2383) King Cobras
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King cobras slither across the ground. Learn all about these venomous snakes and their habitats in King Cobras.
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Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.
How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200...
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When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try!
Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally for generations in the South Baffin region of Nunavut, this book shares with young readers the origin of the caribou and the walrus-and tells of how very different these animals looked when they were first conceived....
2388) Special Agent
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SUSPICION OF GUILT When Special Agent in Charge Max West and his K-9 partner, Opal, look into a series of bombings in Northern California, horse trainer Katerina Garwood instantly seems suspicious. As the ex-fiancee of a man tied to the criminal Dupree family, Katerina may know more than she's letting on -- especially since the infamous syndicate is targeting her. And Max isn't sure he can believe her when she says she knows nothing. Despite his reservations,...
2389) Julie of the wolves
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack.
2390) Chill of the ice dragon
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.
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Dragon girls volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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All is not as it seems in the Dragon Girls' beloved Magic Forest. The Shadow Sprites' power is growing...and they may not be alone. Naomi must harness all the dragon magic she's learned so far to lead the Glitter Dragon Girls against this new threat.
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Dragon girls volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Willa and her friends are gathering ingredients for a special potion. The troublesome Shadow Sprites are after the Tree Queen's magic again, and it can only be saved by Dragon Girls.
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Dragon Masters volume 11
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Diego is under the spell of the wizard Maldred who wants to control the Naga, an enormous dragon that lives deep within the Earth, and plans to use Diego to steal the two keys necessary for that purpose; the first key is guarded by Argent, the silver dragon, and Jean his dragon master, so Drake, Bo, Carlos, and their dragons travel to Gallia to try and stop the theft and break the spell on Diego.
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Bambi: A Life in the Woods" by Felix Salten is a poignant and timeless coming-of-age novel that delves into the life of a young deer named Bambi. Set in the serene and enchanting woods, the story unfolds through Bambi's eyes, capturing the essence of nature's beauty and brutality. The narrative skillfully navigates the delicate balance of life, illustrating the interconnectedness of all creatures in the forest.
Bambi's journey begins with the...
2395) Jungle Tales of Tarzan
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This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...
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"This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian sleuth from The Cat Saw Murder. A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realizes they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's...
2397) Gaby, lost and found
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Gaby enjoys working at the local animal shelter and wants to adopt a cat but is unsure of her own living situation when her mother is deported back to Honduras.
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A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer-now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.
Stany Nyandwi's gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall has called him a "chimpanzee whisperer." His skills and devotion to these creatures-our closest living relatives, with whom we share 98.7 percent of our DNA-have earned him...
2399) Sled Dog School
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Eleven-year-old Matt is struggling in school and he has to set up his own business to save his failing math grade. But what is he even good at? The only thing he truly loves is his team of dogs, and so Matt's Sled Dog School is born. Teaching dogsledding should be easy, right?
But people, just like dogs, can be unpredictable. And sometimes the bravest thing a person can do is admit they need help. Like Terry Lynn Johnson's popular Ice Dogs, Sled...
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In Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh No! The Talent Show, Instagram superstar and New York Timesbestselling author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes Eva Chen sends readers on a second adventure of self-discovery alongside Roxy and her friends, vibrantly brought to life by Matthew Rivera's rainbow watercolors.
Come one, come all to a talent show of PREHISTORIC proportions!
The annual talent show is coming up at Roxy and Dexter's school. Roxy...
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