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Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
3) Coral reefs
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Introduces coral reefs to young readers, including structure, life cycle, habitat, and other animals plants that live there.
7) Corals
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This photo-illustrated book describes how corals grow, find food, and become part of a reef.
9) Touch blue
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When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
10) Island of spies
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In 1942, twelve-year-old Stick Lawson and her two best friends, Rain and Neb, set out to discover the Nazi spies they believe are helping orchestrate U-boat attacks on American ships off the coast of Hatteras Island.
11) The old boat
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"Off a small island, a boy and his grandfather set sail in their beloved fishing boat. They ride the waves, catching wants and wishes and seeing the wonders of the ocean. But soon the boy is sailing the boat himself, drifting further from shore as the waters grow muddied and turbulent. When a storm washes him ashore, he sees home in a new light. He decides to turn the tides of his fortune, cleaning the island's waters and creating a new life with...
13) Corals
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Simple text and photographs depict corals and how they create coral reefs.
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Emily is headed to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation with friends and family. And this time, Emily promises her best friend, Shona, there will be absolutely no adventure just plenty of fun. But somehow excitement always seems to find Emily, and before she knows it, she ends up on the other side of a powerful waterfall on a forgotten island no one else can get to.
16) Coral reefs
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This book introduces coral reefs and describes the coral polyps and other animals that live there.
18) The wild pirates
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After a shipwreck caused them to join forces, rival pirates Roderick the Red, Greg the Green, and Ben the Blue sail to the Island of the Mer-People and encounter wild pirates, a magical sea-horse, and a sea-dragon along the way.