Poisonous Creatures    a book about poisonous creaturesGrasslands  A series of 10 books that feature some of the most extra ordinary natural locations in the world.Plants  Butterflies & Caterpillars  Fun, photographic nonfiction at its best from the authors of the successful Scholastic Question and Answer series.Scholastic True or False is a science series aimed at second and third graders in a fun question-and-answer format. Each book contains 22 true or false questions with a full-color photograph of butterflies and caterpillars on every page. Kids will read the question on the right and turn the page to see the answer on the left. Every answer also includes a bonus fact related to the question. Animal Planet The Most Extreme Animals  Counts down the top ten animals in each category, defined by their reproductive tactics, parenting skills, survival skills, toxicity, attitude, athleticism, unique appearance, smell, and diet.Title: The Most Extreme Animals Author: Gerstein, Sherry/ Mohs, Kevin (FRW)/ McGee, Ian (FRW) Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Publication Date: 2007/04/20 Number of Pages: 80 Binding Type: HARDCOVER Library of Congress: 2006035891 Field Trip Facts: Notes From Ms. Frizzle's Kids  How does a bat hunt? Is spider-silk stronger than steel? How fast can a kangaroo hop? The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class have traveled the globe learning cool science facts. Read their reports, and let them take you on a fun-filled field trip on the Magic School Bus.Dog  Full-color photos. The natural history, habits, and domestication of the dog are described—how it evolved from the wolf, how social behavior enables both wild and tame dogs to survive, and how each breed is different from the others.Killer Plants: The Venus Flytrap, Strangler Fig, and Other Predatory Plants  Describes thirteen plants, such as the sundew, bladderwort, and mistletoe, that depend on the animal world or other plants for their nutrition.Creepy Crawlies: Infesting Rodents  What makes a pest a pest? Pet rats are sweet and playful, but no one wants to find rats in their pantry! Fast, crafty, adaptive - they've been around a long time. Learn the facts about these whiskered varmints!Creepy Crawlies: Infesting Rodents  What makes a pest a pest? Pet rats are sweet and playful, but no one wants to find rats in their pantry! Fast, crafty, adaptive - they've been around a long time. Learn the facts about these whiskered varmints!Arctic Animals  The Treasury of American Wildlife brings students a greater understanding of our wildlife resources and how to preserve this priceless part of our natural heritage.Spiders and Their Web Sites  Illustrations and text provide a close-up look at the physical characteristics and habits of twelve different spiders and daddy-longlegs.Creepy Crawlies: Scurrying Cockroaches  What makes a pest a pest? Some invade our homes - uninvited! They skitter and hide, but we know they're there! Learn the facts about these persistent pests!Creepy Crawlies: Scurrying Cockroaches  What makes a pest a pest? Some invade our homes - uninvited! They skitter and hide, but we know they're there! Learn the facts about these persistent pests!I Wonder Why Skunks Are So Smelly (and Other Neat Facts about Mammals)  A non-fiction science book about mammals and their characteristics.Living Planet  Full of spectacular photos & amazing facts, Living Planet offers a fascinating picture of life on Earth. Learn all about the incredible diversity of life on our planet, from cuckoos to crocodiles and from tigers to trees.Creepy Crawlies: Feasting Bedbugs, Mites & Ticks  What makes a pest a pest? Some come with six legs; some crawl on eight! Learn the facts about these munching menaces!Creepy Crawlies: Feasting Bedbugs, Mites & Ticks  What makes a pest a pest? Some come with six legs; some crawl on eight! Learn the facts about these munching menaces!Horses  Instructions on feeding, stabling, and grooming, etc.Juvenile Diabetes  Discusses juvenile diabetes, including what it is like to have the disease, the history and research, and how people live with it.Amazing Crickets  Young readers will learn how crickets grow and why they singYikes!: Your Body Up Close!  The wonders of the human body—larger than life! Microphotographs of the human body show skin, teeth, blood, bones, eyes, the stomach, and more in magnificent detail. An engaging guessing game-like text and surprising photos—with 12 fold-out pages—take readers closer than they ever thought possible. Full color.The Human Body  Florida Insects: Their Habits and Control  Large, clear photographs enhance the descriptions, life histories, collecting information, and controls of more than 100 insects found in Florida. Very useful to the home gardener and student.Insect  Featuring an extra-sturdy library binding!Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the extraordinary world of insects. Superb color photographs of beetles, bugs, bees, butterflies, and more give the reader a unique "eyewitness" insight into the variety and complexity of insects, their structure, life cycles and behavior. See a queen wasp building her nest, a caterpillar devouring a leaf, a cockchafer beetle taking off, two stag beetles fighting over a mate, and a damselfly nymph emerging as an adult. Learn why bees make honey, how to identify insects, why leafcutter ants build underground nests, how diving beetles live and breathe in water, and how mosquitoes spread disease. Discover how a wasp's compound eyes work, which insects have ears on their knees, how wasp grubs feed on living caterpillars, how a butterfly can smell with its wings, and much, much more! The Call of the Wolves  The memorable, bestselling picture book about the endangered Arctic wolf is back in print. Here, in a dramatic narrative filled with spectacular, lifelike illustrations, is a fascinating look at the lives of a small pack of Arctic wolves. An NCTE/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children. Full color.Skeleton  Discover the story of human and animal skeletons — their evolution, structure and workings.The skeleton is the framework of the body. It supports, moves, and protects, allowing us to walk, run, jump, and swim. Eyewitness Skeleton brings its complexity and ingenuity of design vividly to life. Starting with the human skeleton, it explains how each set of bones functions. It examines in detail the construction of the skull, spine and rib cage, hands, arms, legs, and feet. Comparisons are drawn with the bones of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and mammals. See the 206 different bones in the human body, how your skull differs from a lion's or a chimp's, how teeth grow, and what each one is for, and what the inside of a bone looks like. Learn how bones mend themselves when they break, why half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet, how many toes a horse has and what has happened to the tail you once had. Discover which are the smallest bones in the human body, why some creatures wear their skeletons on the outside and what animal once owned the oldest bones ever found on Earth. And much, much more! Wild Age: Discover the Prehistoric World  Discover the amazing prehistoric creatures that roamed our planet before and during the age of the dinosaurs. Are you ready to take a walk on the wild side? This title features specially commissioned artwork. "Wild Guide" contains statistics of every creature. It includes little-known facts about prehistoric creatures.Turtles of Pinellas County and Its Surrounding Waters  A paperback that details all of the turtle species indigenous to the Pinellas area.Open Me Up  Following on the very hot heels of Pick Me Up, Do Not Open, and Take Me Back, comes Open Me Up, and irreverent, graphically dynamic, intelligently hilarious, and gruesomely informative book about the goings on of our innards.A spectacular 3-D cover (featuring an incredible die cut to reveal the internal organs) will wow browsers, while the superb interior design, imagery, and information will seal the deal. Learn about the discovery of penicillin from a graphic novel, see how the heart works via its social networking page, and watch white blood cells zap invaders on a video-game spread. This is not your father's Gray's Anatomy. Wolves and Coyotes  A brief introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of wolves and coyotes.Wolves and Coyotes  A brief introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of wolves and coyotes.Wolves and Coyotes  A brief introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of wolves and coyotes.Science Dictionary of the Human Body  Presents brief descriptions of human body parts, arranged in alphabetical order.Creepy Crawlies: Bloodsucking Lice & Fleas  What makes a pest a pest? Some yucky suckers love to live among us and on us! Learn the facts about these nasty neighbors!Creepy Crawlies: Bloodsucking Lice & Fleas  What makes a pest a pest? Some yucky suckers love to live among us and on us! Learn the facts about these nasty neighbors!A Picture Book of Wild Cats  Describes the appearance, habits, and habitat of several wild cats, including the mountain lion, cheetah, and ocelot.Mojave  Come walk the sweeping face of me. Tumbleweeds bounce and roll along the ground. Lizards dart, tortoises creep, and snakes glide out of sight.The Mojave Desert is a special place. Its landscape is powerful and mesmerizing. Here is an extraordinary celebration of this vast and ever-changing wonder for readers and nature lovers of all ages.American Forests: The Beauty of America's Natural Habitat  Black Bear: North America's Bear  Three species of bear inhabit North America: the grizzly, the polar bear, and the black bear. But the American black bear is truly North America's bear, found only in North America. Black bears range from Canada to Mexico, from New England to California. There may be as many as 750,000 black bears roaming the forests and mountains of the continent. With its large population, and with more people moving into black bear territory, it's important that we understand this magnificent animal. Stephen R. Swinburne takes us to where black bears live. He joins biologists in search of bears in the Pennsylvania woods, where a mother bear is examined and her cubs tagged. He visits a "school teacher" for orphaned cubs who teaches them how to survive in the wild. Along the way, he offers his personal observations together with fascinating facts about black bears and their world. (Did you know that in the autumn, black bears consume as much as twenty thousand calories a day? That's equivalent to forty-two hamburgers!) With stunning full-color and archival photographs, this lively book shows how North America's bear behaves and survives.America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony With Them  "These breathtaking photographs depict bats as startling beautiful creatures . . . and the enlightening text is sure to stimulate an appreciation of the winged animal in most—if not all—readers".—Wildlife Review. Watch for it this fall on CBS-TV.Human Body  The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.Completely revised and updated with state-of-the-art imagery, Human Body provides an in-depth look at our incredible bodies and what makes them tick. Touch the Earth  Describes ways in which people are "touched" by nature and ways that they can show they care for the world in which they live.The Magic School Bus: The Search for the Missing Bones  Ms. Frizzle and her class visit the Hugh Mann Costume Company to learn all about skeletons: why we need them, what different bones are for, how doctors fix them when they're broken, and lots more.The Magic School Bus: The Truth About Bats  These books combine fun stories with neat facts, humor, illustrations-and they all feature the fabulous Ms. Fizzle!The Body Book: An Owner's Guide to Fueling, Fixing, and Running the Most Inportant Machine You Own  Information about fueling, fixing, and running the most important machine a person owns—the body—is presented in this book. Many facts, examples, and interesting anecdotes are included. Topics covered include aerobic exercise, fats, smoking, viruses, diet, sleep, and sun exposure.Everglades  A lyrical creation tale of the Florida Everglades with stunning landscapes by Wendell Minor.Supports the Common Core State Standards Cactus Hotel  It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is their hotel in the desert!Many different animals live in the cactus hotel. It protects them; and they protect it, by eating the pests that could harm the cactus. The cactus grows larger and larger and will live for about two hundred years. When one animal moves out, another moves in. There is never a vacancy in the cactus hotel. This story—about a desert, a giant cactus, and the animals who live in it—is one that even the youngest child will understand and enjoy. The Remarkable Respiratory System: How Do My Lungs Work?  Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 1/31/2009Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 8 and UpFirst Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life  What was the biggest dinosaur? What was the Ice Age? Why did the dinosaurs die out? Find out in this lavish and lively book. Simple text, beautiful illustrations, stunning photographs of dinosaur models and links to exciting recommended websites introduce young readers to the wonders of the prehistoric world. All websites are regularly reviewed and can be visited via links on the Usborne Quicklinks Website. A selection of free downloadable pictures from this book is also available at Usborne Quicklinks. Must I be online to use this book? Absolutely not. This book also works as an excellent information book on its own.Lifetimes  Teachers and parents, this book is an outstanding teaching resource, much more than the title might suggest. Beginning with: A lifetime for a mayfly is about one day, it presents 24 lifetimes such as that of an earthworm (about six years), a giant sequoia (about 2,000 years), a bacteria (well, that depends), a dinosaur (never again) and the universe (about 15 to 20 billion years). Each example comes with detailed illustrations and something to ponder, such as, for earthworms: Worms teach us that our work can be very important, even if it cannot be seen. Each plant or animal is practically a lesson plan in itself, with tell about it, think about it, and look it up challenges. Written by a retired teacher, this is a favorite book for children and teachers alike. A 48-page teachers guide based on the book is available (sold separately).The Amazing Circulatory System: How Does My Heart Work?  Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 1/1/2009Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 8 and UpHorrible Science: Bulging Brains  Discover why ice-cream gives you a headache, how chopping your brain in half needn't be fatal, and whether girls or boys are the real masterminds in this book about grey matter. Fact files, quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons are included.Horrible Science: Bulging Brains  Discover why ice-cream gives you a headache, how chopping your brain in half needn't be fatal, and whether girls or boys are the real masterminds in this book about grey matter. Fact files, quizzes, teacher tests and cartoons are included.Horrible Science: Bulging Brains  Horrible Science: Frightening Light  This is science with the squishy bits left in! What stops your eyeballs from falling out? Why can dead bodies make ghostly glowing lights? How can a laser beam sizzle human flesh? Get the awful answers in "Frightening Light"!What Is a Reptile?  FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes the main types of reptiles and their physiology, habitats, behavior, diet, and offspring.The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea  It looks like a bear, but isn’t one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey— but isn’t a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what’s a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie’s tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea’s cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Informational Texts)Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids  This lively and informative handbook explains the process of recycling from start to finish. The book focuses on 5 different types of rubbish - paper, glass, aluminium cans, plastic and polystyrene.One Day in the Alpine Tundra  An enormous rock hangs over the alpine tundra. Below, a pocket gopher tunnels, a pika feeds on wildflowers, and a boy rolls over in his tent as he wakes up for the day. Suddenly, the great rock slips and is now poised to fall.50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth  50 Simple Things gives you the tools to take action and to make a difference. Use it to learn how to keep the Earth a safe, healthy place for yourself, your family and for kids in the future!Horrible Science: Disgusting Digestion  It's science with the squishy bits left in! What disease makes your eyes bleed? Why can't astronauts eat beans before a space flight? Which part of your brain makes you throw up? Get the awful answers in "Disgusting Digestion".Horrible Science: Disgusting Digestion  The Amazing Book of Mammal Records: The Largest, the Smallest, the Fastest, and Many More!  Did you know a cheetah is the fastest mammal on Earth and can go from 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds? Did you know the world's laziest mammal is the koala, which needs to sleep 22 hours each day? These and many more incredible facts are revealed in Amazing Book of Mammal Records. "Notepad" entries on each record holder add background and natural science information while humorous cartoons provide extra fun.The Amazing Book of Mammal Records: The Largest, the Smallest, the Fastest, and Many More!  Did you know a cheetah is the fastest mammal on Earth and can go from 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds? Did you know the world's laziest mammal is the koala, which needs to sleep 22 hours each day? These and many more incredible facts are revealed in Amazing Book of Mammal Records. "Notepad" entries on each record holder add background and natural science information while humorous cartoons provide extra fun.Horrible Science: Blood, Bones, and Body Bits  Eyes and Ears  Seymour Simon has written over 200 award-winning science books about animals, anatomy, astronomy, earth science, and vehicles!Six tiny muscles hold each eyeball steady in the sockets of your head.The ears contain the three smallest bones in the body: the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.In addition to hearing, ears help you to keep your balance.Without the brain, we wouldn’t be able to see or hear. The Exciting Endocrine System: How Do My Glands Work?  Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 1/31/2009Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 8 and UpHuman Body: A Book with Guts  From the best-selling team that brought you The Periodic Table, Physics, Biology, and Astronomy comes a topic that's close to our hearts-literally! Meet the characters and processes that that keep the human body chugging along. From the basic building blocks like Cell, DNA, and Protein, to Bones, Muscles, and all of the fun-loving Organs, readers will cozy up with the guys on the inside. Trust us-Liver has never looked better!Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life  A great story about a group of elementary school students who reclaim a stream that was once a spawning ground for salmon, but has become a community dumping ground and no fish has been seen in it for more than 20 years. You will cheer along with the students as the first mature salmon return to spawn after their clean up efforts.< /p>Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life  A great story about a group of elementary school students who reclaim a stream that was once a spawning ground for salmon, but has become a community dumping ground and no fish has been seen in it for more than 20 years. You will cheer along with the students as the first mature salmon return to spawn after their clean up efforts.< /p>Horses  What animal can . . . run so fast, its feet don't always touch the ground,weigh more than 2,000 pounds,sense people's emotions bytheir smell,. . . and wear shoes?Why, a horse, of course!Horses are some of the most fascinating — and important — creatures on Earth. In fact, our world would not be the way it is today if not for horses. Horses have carried medieval knights into battle, transported settlers to the American West, and hauled fire engines and buses. They even turned the wheels that provided power for factories! But one of their greatest, most enduring gifts to us is companionship and trust. So come along with Seymour Simon, whom the New York Times calls "the dean of the [children's science book] field," and learn more about these amazing animals — straight from the horse's mouth! A Freshwater Pond  Describes the different kinds of plant and animal life that can be found in freshwater ponds.Platypus  Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the platypus, an animal found only in Australia.Platypus  Guts: Our Digestive System  Why is it important tochew your food?Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body? Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines? Where does that bad-smelling gas come from? Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind — until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work! You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the digestive system. He explains how it works twenty-four hours a day, turning pizza, sandwiches, milk, and other food into energy and nutrients and waste. Striking photographs on every spread show how major organs including the stomach and intestines move food through your body, and how, eventually, waste is eliminated. Guts takes the mystery out of something that happens to everyone, every day, while at the same time sharing a sense of wonder about the human body. Bones: Our Skeletal System  Award winning author Seymour Simon continues his fantastic journey through the human body with this stunning new addition. In Bones, youngsters will discover the amazing facts about the two hundred and six bones that make up their skeletons, ranging from the smallest, most intricate bones in their feet and hands to the largest, strongest bones in their legs. Blending spectacular full-color photographs and clear, concise text, BONES offers an intriguing look at human body.Pass the Energy, Please!  Here is a favorite of elementary science teachers for the food chain. Each of the creatures passes the energy in its own unique way. In this upbeat rhyming story, the food chain connects herbivores, carnivores, insects and plants together in a fascinating circle of players. All beings on Earth—from the anchovy to the zooplankton—depend upon the green plant, which is the hero of the story. The special talent of the author shines again (see also A Drop Around the World) for being able to present the science curriculum so concisely, creatively, and cleverly. A 48-page Teacher Guide based on the book is also available (sold separately).Pass the Energy, Please!  The Heart: All about Our Circulatory System and More!  Exceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.Muscles: Our Muscular System  Don't move a muscle—read all about them! Did you know that...Without muscles you couldn't blink—or even breathe! Nearly 700 muscles control your life. Big or small, a muscle is made up of just one cell. Exercise doesn't give you more muscles, but it strengthens the ones you have. Discover how muscles make us move—and see what it really looks like under your skin. Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine  It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrión was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He had a small, sharp lancet ready . . . Carrión's friends and teacher from the medical school thought it was a bad idea. They knew Carrión was eager to learn more about this mysterious disease.But were the risks worth it? Science and medicine from the inside out-ten engrossing stories of self-experimentation Who are these "guinea pig scientists"? Searching for clues to some of science's and medicine's bigger (and sometimes stranger) questions, they are all the men and women who devoted their lives to help find the answers. Spanning from the 1770s to the present-and uncovering the science behind digestion, the spread of yellow fever, the development of the first heart catheter, and more-their ten stories are at once scientifically detailed and fascinatingly personal. Mountain Survivor's Guide  Full of real information and true survival stories, this guide tells you what you need to know to be a mountain survivor. Learn how to use your supplies to help you find your way to safety, build shelter in the most dire circumstances, and cope with any disaster that might come your way. |
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