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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
5) Pond & river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
6) Pond babies
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Examines some of the different animal babies at the pond, such as a duck, a turtle, and a loon. Includes note to parents on what to do at a pond.
9) The pond
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A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.
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Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations.
The study of life in British lakes and rivers has been traditionally neglected in natural history publications, and yet the intricacies of plant and animal ecology as a whole can be readily studied in a pond or lake. Not since Macan and Worthington's...
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You will enjoy reading this book whether you are curious about lakes or have already feasted on lake living. If you want to know more about how spending time around lakes provides an escape from the hustle and bustle and busyness of life, or a enchanting destination during a slow or ho-hum season of your life, read on!
Our planet is brimming with inland lakes that dot the landscape everywhere. There are an estimated 117 million of them spread throughout...
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During the 1960s, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into the lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrofication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, depleting oxygen, damaging fish stocks, and transforming...
14) Pond Life
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This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community.
Plus suggestions for:
Where and when to look
Observing and collecting specimens
Making exciting discoveries...
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Relato corto para ser contado a niños pequeños acerca de una Laguna Encantada que estaba en peligro de desaparecer debido a la voracidad humana que le había contaminado sus aguas y le dejaba pasar cada vez menos caudal por su rio alimentador.Debido al bello espíritu que le habitaba, esta laguna sagrada transmitía con su presencia cualidades de curación anímica y espiritual a todos cuantos vivían cerca de ella, plantas, animales y humanos incluidos.Para...
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Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience; and of course, Walden. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his...
19) Frog and friends
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Frog and his friends are alarmed by a strange object that appears on his pond, share a thoughtful--if scratchy--gift, and meet a hippopotamus that has run away from the zoo.
20) My Little Pond
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Join Duck, Frog, and Fish as they introduce readers to their pond habitat in an environmentally friendly book.
Duck, Frog and Fish live in the pond and introduce readers to their home: showing what plants grow on the banks, which plants thrive in the pond water, and even what tadpoles look like. Elegantly designed with spare text, these gentle earth tone illustrations complement the sustainable format. This eco-friendly book encourages little readers...
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