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4th Grade Reading
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
NYT - Children’s Series
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
NYT - Children’s Series
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"When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life"--OCLC.
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Depicts the true story of a former circus elephant named Tarra who became a resident at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and found a best friend in a stray dog named Bella and provides color photographs of Bella and Tarra. Chronicles the story of their devotion to each other when Bella is hurt and Tarra stays by her until Bella recovers and they can be together again. Includes information about the Elephant Sanctuary, the animals they have there,...
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"High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. In Giants of the Monsoon Forest, geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily...
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T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she s not developing schizophrenia. But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can t abandon the story or the calf.
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"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe...