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2) Cobras
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Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with cobras. Readers will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, resting, and their deadly venom. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're bitten.
3) Mambas
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Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with mambas. Readers will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their speed. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're bitten.
4) Pythons
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Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with pythons. Readers will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their muscular coils. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're attacked.
5) Anacondas
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Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with anacondas. Readers will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their ability to hold their breath under water. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're attacked.
6) Copperheads
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Simple text and dynamic close-up photographs bring young readers face-to-face with copperheads. Readers will learn about body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their striking ability. The book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're bitten.
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Boone and Heather are psyched for summer camp. The legends of man-eating snakes and disappearing campers are hisss-terical! Sure, it's strange that the camp lotion makes their skin peel, but there's a good explanation, right? Right?! Things get even wrose when Boone joins the other eleven Very Special—And Very Terrified!—Guests at HorrorLand. There's something Very Wrong about a bumper-car ride called the R.I.P.P.E.R...
9) Cottonmouth
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Brief text and photographs describe cottonmouths including their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and how they catch prey.
10) Copperhead
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Brief text and photographs describe copperheads including their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and how they catch prey.
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Explores the prevalence of poisonous snake bites and how many people are seriously harmed or even killed by snake poison each year--a problem that could be prevented by making antivenom medicine better available to poorer nations, especially in Africa. Discusses how antivenom is made, why it is so hard and expensive to produce, and ways it could be made more available for communities in need.
12) La serpiente
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"[This books presents] . . . a comprehensive zoological profile of this group of . . . reptiles, including anacondas and vipers. Includes sidebars, a range map, a glossary, and an American Indian snake tale"--Provided by publisher.
13) The reptile room
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Dear Reader, if you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery....