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A very simple introduction to the location, climate, special geographic features, and incredible animal life unique to the Pacific Ocean. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled callouts, detailed photographs, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author. But how much do children really know about our planet's main bodies of water? Oceans of the World gives readers the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Humanity's impact on the natural world can have disastrous effects. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch shines a light on the giant accumulation of garbage in the Pacific Ocean. With abundant charts and diagrams and large-format photos, this title explores the science behind ocean currents and plastic's chemical composition to explain the threat trash, especially plastic, poses for the world's oceans, and considers actions people and governments can...
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English
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"Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph--this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific"--Publisher.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel. At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds...
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Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Introduces the earth's largest ocean, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate how the tropical storms known as typhoons spin.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xi 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four days and nights. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and hallucinations. By the time rescue arrived, all but 316 men had died. The captain's...
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