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Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood’s Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife
by Meeg Pincus (Author) and Alexander Vidal (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: P-22, the famed “Hollywood Cougar,” was born in a national park near Los Angeles, California. When it was time for him to leave home and stake a claim to his own territory, he embarked on a perilous journey–somehow crossing twenty lanes of the world’s worst traffic–to make his home in LA’s Griffith Park, overlooking the famed Hollywood sign. But Griffith Park is a tiny territory for a mountain lion, and P-22’s life has been filled with struggles.

Residents of Los Angeles have embraced this brave cougar as their own and, along with the scientists monitoring P-22, raised money to build a wildlife bridge across Highway 101 to help cougars and other wildlife safely expand their territories and build new homes–ensuring their survival for years to come.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

We Adopted a Baby Lamb
by Lori Joy Smith (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Ila is excited about her family’s move to the country — mostly because it means she can have more pets! But no one expected their next addition to be a lamb. When Albert first comes home, he sleeps a lot, he eats a lot . . . and he pees on the floor A LOT. Ila and her sister and parents quickly learn how to care for a baby sheep — they must feed him and protect him. It’s not easy because Albert gets into everything!

Snippet: But he sure liked food! At first, it was mostly my mom’s tulips. Next, he discovered dandelions. Then apple blossoms — he couldn’t get enough of them! And, of course, grass.