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1003) The emperor's egg
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.
1005) Ultimate shark rumble
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Contains facts about sixteen different types of sharks, comparing such aspects as their sizes and abilities, and what the outcome would be if they were to fight each other.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of hilarious true stories about mischievous critters features a rascally band of bunnies, a rescue pup who will eat anything and a sneaky bear with a taste for treats.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have learned to live alongside humans and even feel affection for us, they still don't quite "get us" the way dogs do, and perhaps they never will. But cats...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dog's journey. Beloved dog Bailey is given an instruction by his boy Ethan -- no longer a boy -- to protect Ethan's granddaughter CJ at any cost. Again, Bailey takes this command to heart, through several lives, always finding his way home no matter what.
Dog's purpose. It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good--Marley...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it.
Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new metaphysical level. Based on studies of literary criticism, philosophy, and extensive hands-on experience in training, Hearne asserts, in boldly anthropomorphic terms, that animals (at least those that interact...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Rear window: A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartment.
Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in death.
In...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Rear window: "A photographer ... becomes obsessed with watching his neighbors and discovers a possible murder"--Set container.
Vertigo: "[A] dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder involving an acrophobic detective and a mysterious blonde"--Set container.
North by northwest: "[An] adman ... gets plunged into a realm of spy and counterspy and is abducted, framed for murder, chased and crop-dusted"--Set container.
Psycho: "[An] unsuspecting...
1013) Ultimate dinosaur rumble
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if sixteen dinosaurs met in a tournament? Who will be the dinosaur champion? Who do you think would win?"--Back cover.
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