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"This is a collection of beautiful illustrations of 43 endangered animals from around the world. From freshwater to oceans, forests, mountains, tundra and desert, grasslands and wetlands, rare and well-known animals are endangered - some critically, someless so. Peary caribous, giant garter snakes, giraffes, puffins, and many more appear on these rich and varied pages, in full color hand-drawn illustrations, alive and vivid in the reader's hands....
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English
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"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
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English
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"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement-told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Joe Pickett, a rookie game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, decides to investigate when he finds a local hunting outfitter dead in his woodpile, and believes the murder is linked to the discovery of an endangered species which would derail plans by InterWest to build a natural gas pipeline across the state.
11) Tigers in danger
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes different subspecies of tigers, explains how human actions have put tigers at risk, and discusses the work of conservation groups.
12) Manatee blues
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Series
Publisher
G. Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
15) The Endangereds
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Series
Endangereds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Nukilik, a polar bear, joins Wangari, a pangolin with a genius for engineering, Murdock, an extremely sarcastic narwhal, and Arief, an orangutan with a big dream, to safeguard other endangered animals.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees, until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
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FunJungle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Someone is trying to hunt FunJungle's Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is on the case"--
18) Humpback whale
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the humpback whale and how conservation efforts brought it back from the brink of extinction.
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1800s, Florida panthers thrived in the southeastern United States, but by the mid 1900s, there were very few of the animals left. When biologists like Mark Lotz realized that wildlife refuges would only do so much to save this endangered species,they got to work. Follow along in this graphic adventure based on a true story of how biologists saved the unhealthy population for a Florida panther comeback. Then, learn more about Florida panthers...
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