When a new housing development threatens to ruin the night sky and her favorite astronomy spots, twelve-year-old Tuesday Beals must solve her uncle's riddle to save the land.
Endangered species
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Author:Dilloway, MargaretSummary: - Author:Haigh, Jerry, Goodall, JaneSummary:
The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating...
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Author:Haigh, J. C.Summary:The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this...
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Author:Jackson, MelanieSummary:After a hang glider crashes into the pool of the house where Dinah and Madge are house-sitting, the hapless pilot creates more than a splash of suspicion in Dinah’s mind. Why does this itchy intruder make off with Dinah’s inflatable...
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Author:B'chard, DeniSummary:When Deni B'chard learned of the last living bonobos the matriarchal great apes who are, alongside chimpanzees, our closest relatives he began exploring ways to reverse their alarming decline. Upon arriving in war-ravaged Congo, B'chard...
- Author:Peterson, DaleSummary:
Tells of the Deluge unleashed by human primates, homo sapiens, on the world's nonhuman primates, but also of the Ark - sanctuaries, reserves, captive breeding programmes, rehabilitation efforts and so on - that may help save the...
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Author:Drake, JaneSummary:A comprehensive look at the environmental movement of rewilding whereby habitats are restored to their natural states and native plants and animals are reintroduced to these habitats.
- Author:Box, C. J.Summary:
As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.
- Author:Gill, MariaSummary:
Discover which are our most threatened animals in New Zealand. From the beautiful forest ringlet butterfly to the down-right ugly southern elephant seal, the cheeky kakapo to the great white sharks, every one of the unique species in...
- Author:ADAMS, DouglasSummary:
A groundbreaking, humourous and extraordinary adventure to find the rarest creatures on Earth. In the 1980s celebreated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of some of the world's most threatened...
- Author:VanderMeer, JeffSummary:
A security consultant receives a key to a storage unit from a dead woman, a reputed ecoterrorist. Inside is a taxidermied animal. Seeking for why the woman contacted her, time is running out, for her and the world.
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Author:Phillips, HelenSummary:Sisters Madeline and Ruby travel to a Central American jungle to help find their missing father, a renowned bird watcher, only to discover a nefarious plot that puts their lives in danger.
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Author:Groc, Isabelle, Goodall, JaneSummary:Gone is Gone looks at why species become endangered, how scientists are learning about endangered wildlife, what people are doing to conserve species and ways young people can help. The book is richly illustrated with unique photos...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
The Monarch butterfly is the marathon runner of the insect world. Each year in May hundreds of millions take off from their winter quarters in Mexico to begin a perilously delicate 3000-mile journey north. Three months later by the...
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Author:MacDonald, CameronSummary:Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America.
Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, tent, sleeping bags, and...
- Author:Webb, BarbaraSummary:
Young Readers Examine How Plants And Animals Are Impacted By Human Activity, Why It Matters, And What Can Be Done To Help.
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Author:Ford, Catt, Kennedy, SeanSummary:Stodgy British archivist Henry Percival-Smythe slaves away in the dusty basement of Ealing College in 1934, the only bright spot in his life is his obsession with a strange Australian mammal, the thylacine. It has been hunted to the...
- Author:Birmingham, MariaSummary:
Canada is home to over 308 endemic species of plants and animals--meaning they're found nowhere else on Earth. In Canada Wild, award-winning author Maria Birmingham introduces young readers to twelve uniquely Canadian animals--many of...
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Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary:When young Tuk is born on the mountain, life is simple for a young bighorn. Run, jump and play with his bandmates, eat and grow strong. But soon it will be up to Tuk to lead the herd to a new mountain he has seen far to the west. It...
