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Yuki and her mother are working in the garden, and it's time to water the plants. Yuki learns the technology behind a well and how to use it. This fiction title is paired to the nonfiction title "Engineers Work With Pulleys" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
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See-oh-too is an influential guy. Trees Are Made of Gas teaches young readers all about carbon dioxide, an invisible, odorless gas that is essential for plant growth, but is also responsible for global climate change. Kids learn both the science and impact of the massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, making a clear argument for conservation and clean up. Providing simple explanations along with ways to reduce your own carbon footprint,...
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El tiburón y el león marino, es una historia para deleitar a los pequeños lectores, entretenerlos, instruirlos y guiarles acerca de
cuidar el planeta Tierra y todas sus especies.
El tiburón, sorprendido al mirar la multitud de especies marinas saliendo del agua, preguntó al león marino por qué todos están
saliendo del agua si vosotros no sois de tierra, él respondió que en los océanos ya no hay espacios para las especies marinas por
la...
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The Get Away Boat is a 500 word children's picture book. Its thirty beautiful illustrations entice your child first to listen and then to read the story. The beaver dam broke, a flood is on the way, and three little lizards and an old grandpa need to find something that will float. The book's editor, a Florida State first-grade teacher, guided the book toward use in her classroom. To her students delight, she used it in her science unit to help teach...
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Un grand danger plane sur le monde des pissenlits. Les humains s'acharnent à vouloir les éliminer en les aspergeant de pesticides. Craignant que leur couleur éclatante ne révèle leur présence parmi la verdure du gazon, un papa pissenlit et son fiston guettent avec inquiétude le moment propice pour éclore.
Dialogue entre un papa pissenlit et son fils, qui rappelle les vertus de cette plante mal aimée.
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CONVERSATIONAL CHAT INFORMATIVE BOOKWhat is my Dirt for youChat between Abe and Bard AI to explore the power of secrets and how they can be used to hurt or help people. The article argues that dirt, or information that could be used to hurt or embarrass someone, can be a powerful tool for good or evil. It can be used to motivate people to change their behavior, to come clean about something that they are struggling with, or to forgive someone who...
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In this fast-moving sequel to The Green Spiral, confronting the runaway destruction of Planet Earth by some dangerous humans shows that there is a very fine line between fantasy and reality.
The central characters provide a glimmer of hope for those who are fighting to save Nature, or is it too late?
Nature herself begins to show her true colours, as she decides it is time to teach those who aim to destroy, a lesson.
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This series of little alien guardians of nature that come out of your planet in pursuit of the biggest polluter of the universe, the wicked Zirt Zlunder. He escapes and comes to stop on Earth. In this book, Zirt Zlunder disappears. The Little Guardians must locate Zirt Zlunder, but this time the hunt will be off planet Earth. They will have to travel all the planets of our solar system. And in this adventure will be attacked by Zirt Zlunder. They...
51) Recruited
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When Olivia Gesso skydives into a recruiting job with Kava Tech-a hip start-up where twenty-somethings binge drink, gamble, and code their way to luxury cars and fat bonuses-it's almost hard to remember how she got there. No one would have expected an eco-warrior hell-bent on saving the seeds of an extinct tree to find her way into this silicon jungle, serving as high-heeled bait for geeky coders. But student debt and desperation drive Olivia farther...
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Respect de l'environnement, des animaux et de nous-mêmes: voilà ce dont traitent les dialogues entre Melissa, une fillette de six ans désireuse de comprendre le monde, et Monsieur Chat, un chat vagabond rusé.
Six histoires pour raconter un an de la vie de la petite fille et pour partager un peu de la sagesse que le chat a accumulée sur les routes du monde.
Entre deux récits, le chat s'adresse aux parents et aux adultes en général pour leur...
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Tomboy mermaid Aliona reaches her sixteen birthday. She gets newly-grown fingernails but it comes with a condition: '"The emerald you have to find, will lead you to the merboy you seek, but don't take too long, mind, for you only have a week." On her quest, Aliona meets three unsuitable mermen, comes to realise what she'd realise what she'd like in her boyfriend and what she wants to do with her life. Then she meets Dalton helping to rescue a distressed...
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Esta serie de pequeños alienígenas guardianes de la naturaleza que salen de su planeta en la búsqueda de la mayor contaminador del universo, el malvado Zirt Zlunder. Se escapa y viene a parar en la Tierra. En este libro, Zirt Zlunder decide destruir los bosques devastando y quemando árboles, asustando a los animales. Los Pequeños Guardianes han localizado a Zirt Zlunder y evitarán que destruya los bosques, después de todo, ahora tienen dos...
55) Puncho
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Puncho, acaba de instalarse en su nueva casa de campo y, como buen aficionado a las plantas, ha decidido cultivar su propio huerto. Pero algo extraño ocurre con sus semillas. ¿Por qué, a pesar de sus muchos cuidados, no logran brotar?
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Je m'appelle Imarvaluk. Dans ma langue, l'inuktitut, cela veut dire le chant des vagues.
J'aime mon nom, mais je n'aime plus la mer.
Je me méfie d'elle depuis qu'un esprit mauvais l'a envoûtée. La mer est devenue un monstre qui dévore lentement l'île de Sarishef, o nous vivons depuis toujours. C'est une toute petite île près du cercle polaire, entre la Russie et l'Alaska. Dans quelques jours, notre maison sera déplacée au centre de l'île....
57) Toxic Terror!
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Angelina Butterworth couldn't understand why people kept polluting our planet until the day she discovered it was the diabolical plan of aliens bent on destroying Earth! In this entertaining and instructive narrative, readers will be on the edge of their seats as they find out if Angelina can escape the slimy tentacles of the evil Toxlings while learning what people can do in real life to stop our world from becoming an actual toxic wasteland. This...
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From the effects of rising sea levels to changes in animal behaviour and human lifestyles, these powerful stories portray the issues surrounding climate change in personal terms and so bring them vividly to life. Offering warnings and inspiration in equal measure, the stories cover a wide range of localities from Siberia and Canada to Australia, UK, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Writers include award-winning Linda Newbery as well as exciting newcomers...
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In a future dystopian version of the Lake District, now an exclusive reserve for the rich and elite, two young friends battle to save their favourite beauty spot. Is this the end of their Lakeland dreams?
Although written as a fast-moving and exciting adventure, the story highlights the fragility of the Lakeland environment and community and encourages the reader to value and respect the beauty and majesty of the Lake District hills, lakes and valleys...
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One Saturday, Anthony and his mother go grocery shopping. Anthony helps his mother with the groceries. When Anthony and his mother walk home from the grocery store, he looks up at the sky and notices the birds. When he gets home from grocery shopping, he runs to the window and looks for birds in his backyard. He doesn't see any birds. His neighbor tells him that birds need trees. He gives Anthony a small tree to plant. Anthony plants the tree in his...
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