Neighborhood Sharks

Neighborhood Sharks
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Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages : 48
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466880832
ISBN-13 : 146688083X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Neighborhood Sharks by : Katherine Roy

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.

Neighborhood Sharks

Neighborhood Sharks
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 53
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781596438743
ISBN-13 : 1596438746
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Neighborhood Sharks by : Katherine Roy

"An up-close look at the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them--just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge"--

How to Be an Elephant

How to Be an Elephant
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Publisher : David Macaulay Studio
Total Pages : 53
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781626721784
ISBN-13 : 1626721785
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Be an Elephant by : Katherine Roy

"This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family groups on earth."--

The Line Tender

The Line Tender
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780735231610
ISBN-13 : 0735231613
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Line Tender by : Kate Allen

Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white--and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother's unfinished research on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered. ★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred ★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred ★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred ★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred ★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred ★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred ★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred

Red Rover

Red Rover
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Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages : 23
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250761903
ISBN-13 : 1250761905
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Rover by : Richard Ho

Red Rover is a gorgeously illustrated tale that explores the vast, inhospitable landscape of Mars and the adventures of the little rover that calls the planet its home. Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam... observe... measure... and collect. It explores the red landscape— crossing plains, climbing hills, and tracing the bottoms of craters—in search of water and life. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be... the most curious. Join Curiosity on its journey across the red planet in this innovative and dynamic nonfiction picture book by Richard Ho, illustrated by Sibert Honor winner Katherine Roy. This title has Common Core connections.

Close to Shore

Close to Shore
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Publisher : Broadway
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822029922747
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Close to Shore by : Mike Capuzzo

Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.

Sharks Just Wanna Have Fun

Sharks Just Wanna Have Fun
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 130
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780740773877
ISBN-13 : 0740773879
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Sharks Just Wanna Have Fun by : Jim Toomey

Gathering more than 42 weeks of Toomey's "Sherman's Lagoon," this collection transports readers to an imaginary lagoon near the South Pacific island of Kapupu, where a cast of coral reef critters live a charmed aquatic lifestyle.

When Sharks Attack With Kindness

When Sharks Attack With Kindness
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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages : 128
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781524870232
ISBN-13 : 1524870234
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis When Sharks Attack With Kindness by : Andrés J. Colmenares

Cute, clever, and comically ingenious, Andrés Colmenares’ popular shark comics are a sweet, sincere tonic for these anxious, troubled times. This hardcover collection features the cute, uplifting and ingenious aquatic cartoons of Andrés Colmenares, the creator of Wawawiwa Comics, followed by millions of fans around the globe. While sharks are one of the ocean’s deadliest predators, these sharks can smell insecurity, doubt, and gloom, and are quick to strike — with kindness, cuteness, and positivity!

Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Sharks in the Time of Saviours
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781786896506
ISBN-13 : 1786896508
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Sharks in the Time of Saviours by : Kawai Strong Washburn

'As vivid as it is splendid' New York Times 'Beautifully written and completely absorbing' Sarah Moss, Guardian A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in the NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OPRAH MAGAZINE and BBC CULTURE At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai‘i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream.

Big Shark's Valentine Surprise

Big Shark's Valentine Surprise
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0439922518
ISBN-13 : 9780439922517
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Big Shark's Valentine Surprise by : Steve Metzger

It's Valentine's day and Chomp, the lemon shark, is new to the neighborhood. He hasn't made any friends yet, so who will be his valentine?