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1) Pax
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back--
2) Venom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Offers young readers information on toxic creatures that can harm or even kill with a bite or sting.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then-WHAM!-the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all.
In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"A young wolf cub, separated from his pack, journeys 1000 miles across the Pacific Northwest, dealing with forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers--including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp--and their victims.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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What would you do if you found an alligator in your garage? Or if you spotted a mountain lion downtown? In cities and suburbs around the world, wild creatures are showing up where we least expect them. Not all of them arrive by accident, and some are here to stay. As the human population tops seven billion, animals are running out of space. Their natural habitats are surrounded and sometimes even replaced by highways, shopping centers, office parks,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers!
Little brown bats do us a big favor. They eat huge numbers of insects! That helps limit the spread of diseases and the damage that insects do to farm crops. But in recent years, large populations of little brown bats have been dying off each winter. Is a virus killing them? Could climate change or pesticides be the cause? Or is it something...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Presents new animals discovered during a ten year project of documenting sea life, describing new species of such creatures as jellyfish, octopuses, squids, sea worms, and crabs, found along coral reefs, ocean mountain ranges, and in the dark zone.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Deep in the Central African Republic, forest elephants trumpet and rumble along with the forest's symphony. And scientists are listening. Scientist Katy Payne started Cornell University's Elephant Listening Project to learn more about how forest elephants communicate and what they're saying. But the project soon grew to be about so much more. Poaching, logging, mining, and increasing human populations threaten the survival of forest elephants. Katy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A historically large irruption of snowy owls during the winter of 2013-2014 brought them across the eastern US, and farther south than usual. Scientists used this opportunity to attach GPS tracking devices to some snowy owls to increase understanding of their winter behavior and migration.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Southern white rhinos are in trouble. For years, a rumor has been spreading that their horns can be used to cure cancer, and poachers have been targeting these gentle creatures. Sandra Markle takes readers behind the scenes to see how civilians, volunteer organizations, and African governments are working together to protect rhinos.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Insects, fish, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and mammals make up the six main animal groups. But did you know that each of these groups has a different life cycle? Or that each group has specific stages of growth? This fascinating book investigates the life cycle of each animal group.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In the newest addition to the ever-popular and authoritative nonfiction Scientists in the Field series, the team behindThe Frog Scientist take you on a research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean to follow crows in aviaries and in the wild while answering many thought-provoking questions like: Can a crow outsmart a scientist? Remarkably engaging narrative nonfiction coupled with beautiful photographs, this is a trip you won't regret booking!--...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Meet the new fawns in the forest: the descendants of Bambi discover the woods in this refreshed edition of the sequel to Bambi, complete with new illustrations.
Twin fawns Geno and Gurri are the children of Faline and Bambi. The pair must grow up and navigate the world of the woods with the help of their mother and Bambi, the new Prince of the Forest.
But for young fawns, the wild can be dangerous. Gurri is injured by a fox...
Twin fawns Geno and Gurri are the children of Faline and Bambi. The pair must grow up and navigate the world of the woods with the help of their mother and Bambi, the new Prince of the Forest.
But for young fawns, the wild can be dangerous. Gurri is injured by a fox...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Decades of commercial whaling nearly decimated a variety of whales considered a keystone species. Keystone species are indicators of the overall health of Earth's habitats. While whales have made a comeback through an international ban on commercial whaling, they are still threatened with extinction. Global warming, water and noise pollution, and commercial shipping and fishing are among the most serious threats to whale survival. Meet the scientists,...
19) Big cats
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of big cats.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
In the cloud forests of the Amazon Basin, scientists are installing extraordinary numbers of camera traps in the hopes of learning more about an elusive species—woolly monkeys. No one knows for sure how many woolly monkeys are left in the wild. But they play a key role in their ecosystem, and without them the rain forest is in trouble. Join scientists on their quest to solve the mysteries surrounding the lives of woolly monkeys before it's too late....
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