Caroline Arnold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Follow a classroom of kindergartners as they participate in a popular activity: hatching chicks. Readers learn about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch, and raising the chicks until they are old enough to return to the chicken coop." -- Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the past several decades, our world has been warming at a faster rate than ever before. Winters are shorter. Sea levels have risen. Territories of predators and prey have shifted. To survive in this new environment, animals everywhere have had to adapt, or face extinction. Complemented by Jamie Hogan's rich collage illustrations, A Warmer World offers young readers a clear-eyed look at the effects of climate change on animals around the world--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces "living fossils, or modern-day animals that very closely resemble their ancient relatives. Meet the coelacanth, horseshoe crab, dragonfly, tuatara, nautilus, and Hula painted frog. All are living fossils. Why have they changed so little over time, while other animals evolved or went extinct?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The arctic wind howls, but the two polar bear cubs are warm inside their den. They snuggle tight against their mother and drink her milk. Three months later, they tumble outside for their first walk in the snow. Bundle up and find out what happens in a polar bear's world.
15) A Panda's World
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Provides a close-up look at China's giant pandas exploring their characteristics, habitat, predators, and food habits. Includes panda fun facts, a glossary, and website addresses for additional information.
16) Llama
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Describes the characteristics and behavior of llamas and their usefulness to man, discusses other members of the lamoid family, and reports on the growing number of llamas now being bred in the United States.
17) Reindeer
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Follows a herd of reindeer from the forest where they spend the winter to their summer grazing place on the tundra of Lapland where their calves are born.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 4 weeks there will be butterflies in room 6! Mrs. Best brought butterfly eggs to school. Tiny caterpillars hatched out of them. The kindergartners gave the caterpillars food and watched them grow... and grow... and grow... until finally they became chrysalises. Now butterflies are growing inside. The children watch and wait. When will the butterflies come out?
Author
Publisher
Caroline Arnold
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Settlement House Girl chronicles author Caroline Arnold's childhood at North East Neighborhood House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as she interacted and shared meals with other settlement house residents, participated in clubs, sports and community activities, and observed the roles of the staff and her social worker parents. It is an inside view of a working settlement house in the 1950s. The 38 chapters of the book range from her first days at the...