Sandra Markle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a dinosaur body part overnight? What If You Had T. rex Teeth? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had become part dino! From a Velociraptor's sharp sickle-tipped toes to a T. rex's giant curved teeth, and from the body armor of an Ankylosaurus to the long neck of a Brachiosaurus -- discover what it...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the eggs of the hip-pocket frog hatch, the father sits "while the tadpoles wiggle up his hind legs and into the hidden pockets on his hips." But that is only the beginning of a fascinating adventure--the father must evade predators while searching for the perfect place for his froglets to emerge.
7) Finding home
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A koala mother faces two challenges: protecting herself and her joey from the raging bushfire, and finding food after their home range is destroyed. Her journey brings her closer to the world of humans than she has ever been before--but it's a risk she must take. Based on the real-life story of a koala nicknamed Cinders that survived two bushfires.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"If you could have any ocean animal's superpower, whose would you choose? If you could shapeshift like a giant Pacific octopus, you could squeeze through even the smallest gaps. If you could snap your claws like a coconut crab, you could slice through sheets of metal. An awesome book of ocean animal superpowers!"--
10) Owls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the physical characteristics of owls that combine to make them such able predators.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"If you could have any animal's tongue, whose would you choose? If you had a gaur's tongue, you could taste ice-cream flavors. If you had a chameleon's tongue, you could catch any Frisbee. And if you had a wolf's tongue, you'd never break a sweat no matter how hot it got! The animal kingdom has tons of amazing tongues, but yours is pretty great, too!"--Provided by publisher.
12) Jackals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book tells about black-backed jackals, animals that eat carrion in the grasslands of Africa.
13) Hyenas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at the world of hyenas.
14) Vultures
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes searches for carrion by a male white-backed vulture on the African savanna, two turkey vultures caring for a chick on a Florida coast, and two king vultures caring for a chick in a jungle in Peru.
15) Tasmanian devils
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book tells about Tasmanian devils, an animal equipped with a superior sense of smell and sharp teeth that eats carrion.
16) Army ants
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book tells about army ants, an important part of nature's cleaning crew that eat small dead and dying creatures.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
We see them in the garden, or perhaps in the garage, maybe in the home, where they have spun their intricate webs. They are spiders. And they are among the world's most fascinating creatures. This book introduces young readers to spiders, big and small. The jumping spider is as small as an ant, while the goliath bird-eater spider, with its legs spread out, may be as big as a dinner plate. A spider spins a web to catch food. Imagine what a spider could...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and your eyes weren't yours? What If You Had Animal Eyes?--the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series--explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an pair of animal eyes instead of your own! From the chameleon's eyes that can point in different directions, to the colossal squid's eyes that shine in the dark, discover what it would be like if you had these special eyes--and find out why...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Olinguitos live in cool, humid cloud forests in the mountains. For many years, scientists mistook their pelts and skeletons for olingos, a related mammal. But in the early 2000s, Kristofer Helgen noticed something different about some olingos. He suspected they might be a separate mammal species-a rare discovery.