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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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English
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Product Description: One of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year. In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of...
5) Earth
Language
English
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A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
6) Butterflies
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
27 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the appearance, life cycle, habits, habitat, and winter migration of butterflies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Every year in Namibia, about two thousand zebras suddenly disappear from their grazing area along the Chobe River. Months later, the herd returns. Where do they go? And why? Thanks to satellite-tracking collars, scientists were able to solve the mystery, but several questions remain. Award-winning science author Sandra Markle reveals the process scientists used to study the zebras, and she also delves into the science of migration, exploring how animals...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 40 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million animals in their annual 500-mile trek across the Serengeti Plains. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya and Tanzania and features Africa's greatest predators in deadly pursuit of their migrating prey.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Mingo is injured and loses his memory when he faces a bad storm during his first migration, but he makes friends who will do whatever it takes to help him heal and get back where he belongs.
10) Little red bat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Little Red Bat needs to make a decision as to whether she will migrate or hibernate as winter approaches, so she asks other forest animals how they will spend the winter.
11) Salmon migration
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
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Readers will learn about the impressive migration of five different Pacific salmon species. The title will cover information like why and when they migrate, how far they migrate, and where they migrate. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
12) Whales
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces sperm whales, including their different body parts, how they travel in groups, what they eat, and how they care for their young.
13) Dino Duckling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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A funny and touching celebration of difference, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. Dino Duckling can dive, swim and fish just like his duckling brothers and sisters. But when the time comes for the family fly south for the winter, Dino Duckling finds he really is different!
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the migratory habits of caribou, monarch butterflies, gray whales, and snow geese, explaining how and why they make their long journeys.
16) Two little birds
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Two little birds make their first grand migration south, and later return home to start new families.
17) Galapagos George
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, maps ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Lonesome George, the giant tortoise who was the last of his species and lived to be one hundred years old in the Galapagos Islands.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
19) Winged migration
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to the other, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers will learn about the impressive migration of North American monarch butterflies. The title will cover information like why and when they migrate, how far they migrate, and where they migrate. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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