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1) Ocean
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"Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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Highlights the geography, plants, and animals that live in the Earth's oceans and explores different facets of the oceans from their currents to their different zones. Features photographs with captions, diagrams with callouts, and maps that explain habitats, migratory patterns, diets, waves, food webs, and animal anatomy. Includes a glossary.
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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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Discusses the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, and examines the role of the slave ships, the Middle Passage, and slave markets. Includes color and black-and-white photographs, fact boxes, text-related questions, ways to learn more about the slave trade, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Provides a true account of the sinking of the RMS "Laconia" off the West African coast during World War II. Describes the German submarine that attacked the ship holding Italian prisoners of war, the German effort to rescue all the shipwrecked, and the American bomber that dropped bombs over the scene. Also discusses how those who survived stayed alive for weeks in shark-infested waters. Includes black-and-white photographs, a map, and a glossary....
8) Titanic
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"Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about a family's journey on board the Titanic with this fact-filled nonfiction reader—carefully leveled to help children progress. Will and Lucy Tate and their family set sail for America. But they are on board the Titanic, the "unsinkable" ship, which is heading for disaster! The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating...
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"Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture to the world underwater...