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Explores the myth of the kraken, and describes the kraken's physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitat. Highlights possible sightings of the kraken and its appearance in pop culture. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a quiz, a glossary, and additional resources.
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A comedy on a town where hundreds of inhabitants are on anti-depressants, prescribed by Dr. Valerie Riordan. After a patient dies she asks the druggist to substitute placebos. Freed of drugs, the town comes alive with wine and song, so loud it even awakens a sea monster.
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Carlos works on a fishing boat in the middle of the sea. After a storm, he spots a woman clinging to driftwood. The woman's friends are lost, maybe swallowed by the ocean, however the woman says it was no storm that capsized her ship, rather that it was a monster.
6) Sea monsters
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"Engaging images accompany information about sea monsters. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
12) Sea monsters
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Describes the origins of sea monsters, sea monster myths and legends, and more.
13) Gargantis
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There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder.With the help of the daring Violet Parma,...
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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep...
15) Sea monsters
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Learn where and why the legend of sea monsters began, how they are reflected in different cultures, and how they are understood today.
16) Sea monsters
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"An in-depth study of sea monsters, examining legends, popular reports, and scientific evidence that supports or refutes the existence of the mysterious phenomena"--Provided by publisher.
19) Water monsters
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"Explores the mythical and historical backgrounds of water monsters such as the Loch Ness monster, the Vikings' Midgard Serpent, the biblical Leviathan, and the Scandinavian kraken"--Provided by publisher.