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2) Rainforests
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, Koberstein and Applegate pull back the curtain...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Conservation biologist Martin Jenkins and acclaimed fine artist Vicky White expertly guide readers into the complex ecosystem of Malaysia's Taman Negara. Conversational prose and photorealistic black-and-white artwork--punctuated by four jaw-dropping full-color spreads--evoke the whir of cicadas and the low call of a pheasant. Pages fill with ants and elephants, leopards and hornbills, gibbons and bats, as animals spread and fertilize seeds to help...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life of sea wolves, a unique strain of wolf that lives in the rainforest along the Pacific coast of Canada, genetically distinct from their inland cousins and from wolves in any other part of the world.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meg Lowman was always fascinated by the natural world above her head. The colors, the branches, and, most of all, the leaves and mysterious organisms living there. As a scientist, Meg set out to climb up and investigate the rain forest tree canopies-- and to be the first scientist to do so. But she encountered challenge after challenge. Male teachers would not let her into their classrooms, the high canopy was difficult to get to, and worst of all,...
15) A bear's life
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the bears that live in the Great Bear Rainforest through the course of a year as they catch fish, eat berries, climb trees, and take long naps.
Author
Series
Secret explorers volume 5
Publisher
DK Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Follow along with the Secret Explorers as they visit an amazing wildlife reserve and make lots of new friends, both human and animal! However, not everyone in the rainforest is as friendly, and the kids soon stumble across a terrible plot to burn an areaof the rainforest to expand the palm oil plantation, which will destroy the orangutan habitat, and leave these lovable animals without a home"--Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the efforts of a teenage animal rights activist to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered Kemode bears of Canada, also known as spirit bears, an effort which resulted in the bears being awarded protected land in the Great Bear Rainforest.
19) A whale's world
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
Description
"This nonfiction picture book is part of the My Great Bear Rainforest series. Stunning photographs follow a pod of orcas as they roam the waters of the Great Bear Sea, hunting for their next meal"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Language
English
Description
Ian McAllister takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the region's unexplored river valleys down to the hidden depths of the offshore world. Globally renowned for its astonishing biodiversity, the Great Bear Rainforest is also one of the most endangered landscapes on the planet. This stunning collection of photographs and personal narrative is the product of twenty-five years of McAllister's research, exploration, and campaigning...
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