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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discover what a humpback whale has in common with a gibbon or a caribou. Learn what sets a humpback whale apart from a hedgehog or a sloth. Readers will compare key traits of humpback whales-their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle-to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Life on Earth is endlessly amazing and complex. Learn about animal classification with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Imagine a creature that would gnaw on the tail of a crocodile or crush a seal's skull with its razor-sharp teeth. Are you picturing a grizzly or other tough-looking critter? If so, you're wrong! The animals that do these things are none other than adorable otters and fluffy polar bears! Many adorable animals can actually be pretty vicious. Find out which cuties are killers and see how they take down their prey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Many animals hunt prey to survive. Did you know that some animals have clever ways of hunting? The animals in this book use lures, traps, and teamwork to catch their prey. Learn all about predators and their unique hunting tactics!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What do animals do when they're under attack? Some fight back! The animals in this book defend themselves in amazing ways-including methods that use slime, blood, or poison! Read this book to learn more about these amazing animals!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When it gets cold during winter, what do animals that live outside do? Some survive by hibernating. These animals slow down their heart rates, curl up tight, or even freeze themselves! Learn more about the amazing animals that hibernate.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Did you know that some animals can hide right out in the open? They use camouflage to blend in with their habitat to protect themselves from predators. Some can even change how they look! Learn more about these amazing animals.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Camouflage isn't just a type of clothing that hunters and soldiers wear to blend into natural surroundings. Animals have camouflage, too. Camouflage often relies on colors, but patterns help animals blend in, too. The leaf-tailed gecko uses the color and patterns on its body to conceal itself from predators. Its body mimics the leaves of the trees in which it lives. Many predators use camouflage to sneak up on their prey. This book explores the many...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It sounds like cheap pandering to children's obsession with the gross and disgusting, but actually it's a fantastic way to learn a lot of science. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling Get the Scoop on Animal Poop!, animal puke serves many purposes in the natural world: it can scare and distract predators, feed family and neighbors, protect animals from poisoning (they can't call 911), aid with digestion, and so much more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Many animals migrate during the year. But did you know that some animals migrate over incredibly long distances? Learn more about animals that make amazing migration trips-traveling thousands of miles by flying, swimming, or even walking!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Find out what a platypus has in common with a beaver or a dolphin. Learn what sets a platypus apart from a giraffe or a wild dog. Readers will compare key traits of platypuses-their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle-to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Amphibians have some of the most interesting life cycles on Earth. The metamorphosis frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians go through has many steps that readers need to understand and remember. This book offers a concise overview of the general amphibian life cycle, as well as representative examples of the many species within the animal group. Most importantly, the accessible language is, paired with diagrams of the steps of the life...
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Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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How do millions of species survive on a single planet with limited food, water, and space? At any given time, every species is doing its best to survive. Each species lives by instinct and nature. These things work together to keep the species alive and healthy. Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader builds critical literacy skills while introducing students to new concepts and vocabulary terms including ecosystem, competition, mutualism,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Learn what a mountain gorilla has in common with a hippopotamus. Find out what sets a mountain gorilla apart from a raccoon or a mountain lion. Readers will compare key traits of mountain gorillas-their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle-to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Humans have many ways to defend and protect themselves. Medieval knights used swords and shields. What do animals have? Some animals have adapted to their surroundings by growing scales and scutes. Most people know that fish have scales, but animals such as snakes and sharks have scales, too. Scutes are like one big scale, almost like a shield, that protects the animals such as turtles, crocodiles, and pangolins. This book explores the many animals...
57) Grizzly Bear
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Around the world, skilled animals hunt and catch their prey. Learn more about the grizzly bear and the special characteristics that make it such an excellent predator. This title takes you on the hunt with well-researched, clearly written informational text,
primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How do animals such as birds, insects, and bats stay in the air? The answer of course is wings and feathers. Wings and feathers are important adaptations that have taken millions of years evolve. Feathers first appeared during the time of the dinosaurs, and birds are actually distant relatives of dinosaurs. Insects with wings appeared many thousands of years before feathers appeared. This book discusses how these adaptations benefit the birds, insects,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Keeping warm in subzero temperatures can be difficult. Some animals can't manage to retain their body heat in cold weather. However, some animals such as the muskox have adapted to survive in cold climates. They have long, shaggy fur that keeps them warm in the colder months, which they shed in the summer months to stay cool. Other animals such as bears and seals have a layer of fat to keep them warm. The information in this book highlights how these...
60) Fish Life Cycles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the candiru to the lionfish, there are so many kinds of fish on Earth. While all have different methods of production, the basic life cycle is the same, from egg to spawning swimmers. Readers are introduced to this general cycle as well as the important vocabulary needed to talk about it, such as "fry" and "spawning." Accessible language and simple diagrams throughout the book provide a way for struggling readers to tackle science curriculum...
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