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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Each year, Caribou cover 3,000 miles of the Arctic landscape to escape pesky insects, mate, and give birth, and find food. As they move, their hooves become hardened to tackle the snow during the winter. By summer, they have switched to a more spongy footwear. Young readers can follow the herds and learn about the effects of migration on caribou in this title.
64) Migrations
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future"--
We think about the dangers of climate change in the future tense: that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't...
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In this companion book to the television series, six of the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet are explored--the flooding of the Okavango Delta in Botswana; the melting of 10 million square kilometers of ice in the Arctic; the migration of the Serengeti; the great salmon run in British Columbia; the explosion of sea life in Alaska's coastal waters; and perhaps the greatest marine spectacle on the planet, the annual tide of sardines along...
67) Great migrations
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2010.
Description
"Takes viewers around the world on the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species. Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and underwater, this collection tells the formidable, powerful stories of many of the planet's species and their movements, while revealing new scientific insights with breathtaking high-definition clarity."--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Readers will learn about the impressive migration of North American monarch butterflies. The title will cover information like why and when they migrate, how far they migrate, and where they migrate. --Amazon
69) The four winds
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
73) The last stand
Series
Publisher
SBS
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Chronicles the painful abandonment of homes by 8000 Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip forced to relocate to Israel in 2005. Follows the transformation of two working class Israelis into leaders of a political movement.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Littlefoot has a vivid dream in which he imagines travelling to a place where there are many of his kind, and when he tells the story to his grandparents, they take it as a sign to set out and find this mysterious place. After days of travel they do indeed discover a new world where longneck dinosaurs are plentiful, including one they never expected to see -- Bron, Littlefoot's father, who went missing before he was born. While Littlefoot is thrilled...
Author
Series
Bravelands thunder on the plains volume 2
Publisher
copyright by Working Partners Ltd
Pub. Date
©2024.
Description
"Publisher Annotation: A thrilling new arc in Erin Hunter's bestselling Bravelands series! Set in the African highlands and told from three different animals' points of view, this is a perfect adventure for dedicated fans and readers new to the Bravelands world." ...Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Kalak vive con su famlia en la parte del mundo donde los nidos son viejos, los tejados están destruidos, el suelo está seco y nunca hay suficiente comida. Un día deciden abandonar todo y volar hacia otro lugar...
Kalak lives with his family in a part of the world where nests are old, the roofs are all damaged, the earth is dry, and there is never enough food. One day, they decide to leave everything behind, and fly off to a new part of the world....
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million animals in their annual 500-mile trek across the Serengeti Plains. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya and Tanzania and features Africa's greatest predators in deadly pursuit of their migrating prey.
80) The other ducks
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This Duck and That Duck get along swimmingly. But sometimes two ducks just aren't enough. especially when you want to waddle in a line. On a bright sunny day, This Duck and That Duck gaze into the clear water of their pond and discover, to their surprise and delight ... The Other Ducks. But what happens when the days turn cloudy and gray?"--Page [2] of cover.
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