Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery

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Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
by Meeg Pincus (Author) and Yas Imamura (Illustrator)

Booktalk: For decades, as the monarch butterflies swooped through every year like clockwork, people from Canada to the United States to Mexico wondered, “Where do they go?” In 1976 the world learned the answer: after migrating thousands of miles, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Central Mexico’s mountains. But who solved this mystery? Was it the scientist or the American adventurer? The citizen scientists or the teacher or his students? Winged Wonders shows that the mystery could only be solved when they all worked as a team–and reminds readers that there’s another monarch mystery today, one that we all must work together to solve.

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When the Earth Shook

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When the Earth Shook
by Lisa Lucas (Author) and Laurie Stein (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Alya and Atik are stars. Their job is to twinkle in the night sky over Earth, and for billions of years they do it well. But when humans invent powerplants, factories, and cars, and smog pours into Earth’s atmosphere. It becomes harder and harder for Alya and Atik to do their jobs–until, finally, the stars yell at Earth. The Earth feels sick and begins to shake. Things look pretty dire until a little girl named Axiom tells humans what they must do to make the Earth feel better.

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