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Author
Series
Bright and early book volume BE 26
Publisher
Beginner Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
Text and pictures show and tell what wings are, what they do, and where they are found.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A stunning world-records book of animal flight, by the author-and-illustrator team behind the bestselling Book of Bones! Meet ten fascinating flyers through a series of superlatives - and guess who's who while learning about airborne animals. From the fastest (white-throated needletail) to the most acrobatic (flying fox bat), and from the best glider (colugo) to the best backward flyer (hummingbird), each master of flight is cleverly depicted in a...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella...
8) Nightbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
9) Bird hugs
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bernard isn't like other birds. His wings are impossibly long, and try as he might, he just can't seem to fly. He's left wondering what his wings are good for ... if they're even good for anything at all. But a chance encounter with a dejected orangutan leads Bernard to a surprising discovery: that maybe what makes him different is actually something to be embraced.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Finding a bumblebee without wings in her garden, Sasha is determined to help it survive, leading to an unexpected friendship. Sasha, Molly the cat, and Bea the bee share a joyful summer together and discover that you don't need wings to fly. When the time comes to say goodbye to Bea, Sasha finds a meaningful way to honor the life of her tiny friend."
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before. In this program, Nova travels to the Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered - a famed fossil treasure-trove - and teams up with the world's leading figures in paleontology,...
12) Unicorn wings
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A unicorn has a horn that can do magic, but he wishes that he had wings.
13) Perfectly Norman
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Norman is thrilled to discover he grew a pair of wings overnight, but his excitement turns to doubt when he realizes he is now different from everyone else, causing him to question whether there is such thing as perfectly normal.
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