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"In Jumping Spiders, young readers will learn about the physical features and characteristics of jumping spiders. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage beginning readers as they learn about this type of spider. A labeled range map highlights where these spiders can be found around the world, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about Jumping spiders online using our safe search engine...
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"A fact spread and creepy images bring jumping spiders to life. Readers will learn about the habitats and unique characteristics of several jumping spider species. Written for second-graders, this book about these nightmare creatures will keep kids up past their bedtime"--Provided by the publisher.
10) Jumping spiders
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Provides photographs and information about jumping spiders, looking at different types of jumping spiders, and discussing where they are found, how they build nests, their physical characteristics and abilities, and how they find food.
11) Jumping spiders
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Photographs and simple text describe the lifecycle, physical characteristics, and behaviors of jumping spiders.
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"What if you were as small as a bean and could walk on the walls and ceiling, sense vibrarions through your elbows, jump five times your body length, see the world through eight eyes, and hear using tiny hairs all over your body? That is Jumper's world. Open this book and discover the fascinating hidden life of a backyard jumping spider."--
17) Jumping spider
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The brilliant photos bring these creatures to life on the pages of this slim book. Readers can view the mating dance, witness a female spider spin a sac of silk and see the eggs as she lays them so tenderly in this sac. Dozens of baby spiders soon hatch and begin to hunt and grow. A molting spider sheds its skin before the readers' eyes. The four eyes of a jumping spider pop out on the pages as this critter turns his prey into soup. Fascinating information...
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The Amazing Voyage of Nefertiti, the Spidernaut. Most spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would simply float. No one knew if the spider could hunt in a weightless environment. This nonfiction picture book for elementary kids chronicles the amazing voyage of...
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When we think of intelligent creatures, we often think of vertebrates, or animals with spinal columns and relatively large brains. We don't usually think of invertebrates, or animals without a spine. But invertebrates can be astonishingly intelligent. These animals exhibit surprising feats of learning, memory, and problem-solving using their relatively simple, tiny brains some the size of a sesame seed or even smaller. In fact, some intelligent invertebrates...
20) Spiders
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Introduces readers to spiders that make wonderful pets.