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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature."--Amazon.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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....
8) Missing link
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travels the world to help their new friend.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Who is that peeking through the page? Is it a giant panda munching on bamboo? Or perhaps a yellow-eyed tree frog hiding in a tropical forest? Who Am I? uses clever riddles and stunning images by esteemed photographer Tim Flach (taken from his Abrams adult book Endangered) to introduce ten vital species-at-risk to readers.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified].
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. Now there are about 7,000 species of animals in...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A celebration of wildlife blends a counting exercise and charcoal drawings of ten threatened and endangered creatures, including lions, elephants, and pandas, complemented by poetic notes on their respective characteristics and behaviors.
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
NOVELTY, TOY & DIE-CUT BOOKS. Disappearing Acts is a beautifully illustrated search-and-find book. Each page features a densely detailed landscape; rainforest, savannah, coral reef, etc. Within these landscapes are hiding threatened species such as the adelie penguin, elephant, panda threatened species such as the adelie penguin, elephant, panda and snow leopard, and children are invited to search the picture to find each one. Alongside each illustration...
13) Lion down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Teddy Fitzroy and his girlfriend, Summer, investigate when a mountain lion is accused of killing a prized dog outside of FunJungle Wild Animal Park in the Texas Hill Country.
14) The leopard
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Threatened by habitat loss and hunting, leopards have become some of the most endangered of the world's wild cats. Researchers and conservationists are working to resolve the increasing conflicts between leopards and humans in order to improve the lives of people and secure a future for the cats whom live among them.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If your species happens to be alive right now, you should feel very lucky. You probably know about the downfall of the dinosaurs and how the dodo bird met its doom. But you might not have heard about the other weird and wonderful creatures throughout the eons that just didn’t make it. But that doesn’t mean all these stories are sad; extinction is just a part of the long, long history of life on Earth. And some of the ways these species died...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Danny Dodo uncovers the mystery behind the disappearances of iconic endangered and extinct species. Danny Dodo is a detective on a mission. Over the years, thousands of amazing animals have disappeared. Where did they go? What happened to them? And why did they vanish? It's Danny's job to find out-and he needs readers to help him! Danny Dodo's Detective Diary includes stories about missing animals like Skye the passenger pigeon, whose flock was...
17) Is this a tiger?
Author
Series
Alex's field guides volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
"Two young friends search for the endangered tiger in the latest in this picture-book series. Animal expert Alex wants to help her friend Atticus spot a tiger. Sharing cool tiger facts from her journal, she shows Atticus what to look for. Each new fact leads Atticus to think he sees the elusive beasts everywhere: This critter has stripes and that one has enormous teeth. Young readers will love knowing more than Atticus, as his confident refrain "Is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
"Alex is sure it'll be easy to find an elephant. She meets a snake, a rhino and even a lion along her journey -- asking them if they've seen an elephant and explaining what to look for -- and yet, the largest land animal eludes her. But has the very animal she's looking for been there the whole time? Packed with pachyderm facts, this first book in the Alex's Field Guides series is an allegory on the disappearance of one of the world's most iconic...
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