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"Bamboozling clues need a curious mind to piece together thirteen different animals. The animals in question are easily recognizable: ostrich, polar bear, snail, puffer fish, albatross, sloth, lobster, bullfrog, kangaroo and giraffe. But the clues are not what you'd expect (e.g. "3 billiard balls," "egg cozies," "an extra leg," "chainsaw," "dinosaur feet," "a speedometer," "poison to kill 30 humans"). The clues are wryly illustrated in scenarios unrelated...
43) Prickly animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to prickly animals such as the sea urchin, hedgehog, porcupine, and thorny devil, and explore how they use spines to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
44) Horned animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to horned animals such as the kudu, yak, and cape buffalo, and explore how they use their horns to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
45) Stinky animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to stinky animals such as the skunk, opossum, ladybug, and peccary, and explore how they use bad smells to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to animals that blend in with their environment, such as the octopus, Arctic hare, silk moth, and zebra, and explore how they use camouflage to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
47) Venomous animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to venomous animals such as the cobra, stonefish, and flower urchin, and explore how they use venom to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
48) Electric animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to electric animals such as the stargazer, torpedo ray, electric eel, and and explore how they use electricity to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
49) Slimy animals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to slimy animals such as the hagfish, fulmar, tomato frog, and ribbon worm, and explore how they use slime to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
50) Condor Comeback
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
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In April of 1987 the last wild California condor was captured and taken to live in captivity like the other twenty-six remaining birds of its kind. Many thought that the days were over of of this remarkable, distinguished bird that had roamed the skies of North and Central American for thousands of years.
Sy Montgomery employs her skill for on-the-ground reporting, shrewd observation, and stunning narrative prose to detail the efforts of scientists,...
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Against the backdrop of a glittering but brutal circus world, Carol Bradley's Last Chain on Billie charts the history of elephants in America, the inspiring story of the Elephant Sanctuary and the spellbinding tale of a resilient elephant who defied the system even as she struggled to conquer her past, who never lost sight of the life she was meant to have.
Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her days surrounded by family, free...
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Animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals the lessons that humans can learn from the democratic methods of honeybees, and provides an account of his decades of studying the creatures and their techniques for finding new nest sites, engaging in deliberations, and navigating toward a new home together.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This book will delight young readers as they learn about the beaver's Awesome Animal Power. Basic information is covered, such as life cycle, range, diet, predators, and threats. Table of contents, body diagram, map, fun facts, facts page, glossary, and index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
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