Pretty Tricky

Pretty Tricky: The Sneaky Ways Plants Survive
by Etta Kaner (Author) and Ashley Barron (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Discover the tricky techniques some plants use to defend themselves, reproduce, or acquire food. From the copycat Boquila vine that changes shape to match its host plant, to the pungent carrion flower that lures pollinating flies with the scent of rotten meat, plants across the globe have adapted to survive all kinds of threatening fauna.

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Fiona the Fruit Bat

Fiona the Fruit Bat
by Dan Riskin (Author) and Rachel Qiuqi (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: It’s time for Fiona the fruit bat to take her very first flight, but she’s scared. How will she fly when she can’t see in the dark? Mama just says, “listen.” But how will listening help her to see? Then she hears a mysterious sound from deep in her cave. To find out what’s making that noise–and to finally fly–Fiona will have to unlock a secret hidden inside herself.

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A Coalition of Cheetahs

A Coalition of Cheetahs (Safari Animal Families)
by Kelley Barth (Author)
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Booktalk: This picture book introduces readers to cheetahs and their family groups. Find out where they live and how they work together, and learn why they are called a coalition. Are you faster than a cheetah? Try the activity in the back of the book and find out!

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Casting Shadows

Casting Shadows: Solar and Lunar Eclipses with The Planetary Society ®
by Bruce Betts (Author)
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Booktalk: The year 2024 is set to have multiple solar and lunar eclipses. Learn about the different kinds of eclipses. Then discover when they happen, how to watch them, and the cool things that can happen during an eclipse.

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Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers

Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers
by Cara Giaimo (Author), Christina Couch (Author), Daniel Duncan (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Meet incredible animals with all kinds of highly developed senses and learn about the jobs they do in this book full of facts and activities.

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DO CATFISH HAVE WHISKERS?
Sort of. Catfish look like they have whiskers, but each of those long “hairs” on a catfish’s face is actually an organ called a barbel.

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How the Sea Came to Be

How the Sea Came to Be: (And All the Creatures In It)
by Jennifer Berne (Author) and Amanda Hall (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Long, long ago, when the Earth was young and new, the world was a fiery place. Volcanoes exploded from deep down below, and steamy, hot clouds rose up high. Rain poured down for thousands of years, filling the world’s very first oceans. There the teeniest stirrings of life began. Earth’s creatures grew bigger and bigger, evolving into exciting forms like jellyfish, coral, and worms. Millions of years passed. Down in the depths and up on the surface, ocean life grew and spread. Now the sea teems with all kinds of animals–squid, turtles, dolphins, barracudas, even glowing fish, all living in the waters where long, long ago, life itself came to be.

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Earth sizzled and simmered for millions of years.
It bubbled and burbled and hissed.
It raged and it rumbled, it thundered and boiled,
spewing lava and steamy hot mist.

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Discovering Life’s Story

Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings
by Joy Hakim (Author)
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Booktalk: When did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci dissects cadavers by candlelight to learn human anatomy firsthand. In this first of four volumes spanning hundreds of years of scientific innovation and discovery, follow the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when a baffled Dutch biologist finds a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops and gives this particle a new name: virus.

Snippet: This region, which will later be known as part of the Middle East, has a long tradition of supporting libraries. The best of the libraries are like universities: they attract brilliant minds.

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Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica

Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica: 1,000s of Facts & Figures–about Earth, space, animals, the body, technology & more–Revealed in Pictures
by Valentina D’Efilippo (Illustrator), Andrew Pettie (Author), Conrad Quilty-Harper (Author)
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Booktalk: This authoritative encyclopedia is perfect for visual learners: it reveals astonishing information about space, Earth, animals, humans, and technology through 200 infographics, including maps, charts, timelines, and more!

Grasp facts at a glance as you turn every page: discover the size of our Sun in comparison to the largest star in the universe; find out which animal can leap 200 times its body length; learn how many cups of snot your body makes a day; compare the sizes of the biggest beasts that have ever lived; witness what happens in a single second across the world.

Snippet: Most of the 200 infographics that you will find in this book represent facts, which we call data. Translating data into pictures helps us to understand information at a glance and can even make us go “Wow!”

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