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Endangered Birds of North America

To save endangered whooping cranes, people will do some seemingly zany things. in Wisconsin, a woman dresses up in a whooping crane costume.

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Put On Some Antlers And Walk Like a Moose

Do you know a raccoon by its smell? A deer by its tracks? The difference between the call of a tree frog and the call of a bird? To find animals, many field scientists work like detectives, looking for...

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The Seven Continents series

Middle school students can learn the ecology of each continent in depth with this series of books: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. (more…)

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El Niño and La Niña: Weather in the Headlines

Floods. Droughts. Heavy snow storms. Dying coral reefs. Dry deserts that suddenly bloom. In 1997 and 1998, dramatic weather events and weather-related events were in the headlines almost every day.

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Exploring Earth’s Biomes series

Desert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2825-0 Temperate Deciduous  Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2828-5 Tropical Rain Forest . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2826-9 Coral Reef ....

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Tropical Rain Forest, Scholastic Science Readers

Frogs chirp. Parrots screech. Insects click. A piece of bark falls. You look up at a tree that is taller than a ten-story building. Howler monkeys hoot and roar.

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Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds

...on a ship off Hawaii, Christopher Clark lowers a special microphone into the ocean to listen to whales singing. He also analyzes secret recordings from hundreds of ocean microphones the navy uses to...

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Slowest Book Ever

“The Antidote for a Hurried Childhood” was what the Huffington Post called my middle grade nonfiction book, The Slowest Book Ever (Boyds Mills Press, release in April, 2016) in a sneak peek article by...

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Being Frog

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Being Frog hops into stores Feb 2, 2020! Read the Kirkus starred review or the Publisher’s Weekly starred review or the starred review...

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