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1) Nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
iv, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each short chapter begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
15 DVDs (39 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (14 pages : illustrated (some colored) ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Premiering in 1972 on CBS, this classic animated series was created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, focused on the lovable, oversized Albert and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and the gang would usually gather in their North...
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