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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Martha loves birds, so one day when she meets and makes friends with a Dodo, a species supposed to be extinct, in the woods behind her house, she resolves to keep him secret to keep him safe--but sometimes it is hard to keep a big secret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
5) Animals
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides unusual facts about various mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and arachnids, and includes information about both endangered and extinct species.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 36
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In this 36th volume in the series, "the Thea Sisters are going to New Zealand. Their new friend Charlotte wants to show them the sights and introduce them to Didi, a skeleton of a bird that went extinct many years ago. But when they get to the mouseum, Didi has gone missing. Can they find the stolen skeleton before it is too late?"-- Provided by publisher.
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
10) Mechanica
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"In this field guide from the twenty-third century, a dashing explorer--Miss Liberty Crisp--details amazing creatures known as Mechanica: human-created life forms designed to replace extinct species. Features steampunk-inspired renderings of mechanical bugs, birds, bats, snakes, and more!"--
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"You can't believe your eyes. But you can believe the numbers. The Photicular series, with four books published in the last five years, now has 2 million copies in print--and with every new title published the backlist rises to the occasion. After last year's success with Jungle (over 215,000 copies in print in just a few months), here comes Wild -- the book, and the idea, for which the series could have been invented. Wild captures eight endangered...