Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
3) Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
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In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully...
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In this groundbreaking, exceptionally researched installment of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, discover how lizards rapidly adapt to life in the Caribbean islands, allowing scientists to study Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection in real time.
Award-winning author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent joins forces with scientists/filmmakers Neil Losin and Nate Dappen, whose work is detailed in the Smithsonian Channel documentary...
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This nonfiction picture book about horses has a fresh focus: how people over the ages have decorated horses in special ways. Organized into three categories-warfare and hunting, performance and competition, performance, and ceremony-the book introduces horses such as the chariot-pulling war horse of the Persians to the rose-decorated winner of the Kentucky Derby.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Documents the contributions of specially trained military dogs, profiling noteworthy canine heroes while covering such topics as how they are trained and what happens to them when they retire.504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
8) Prairie dogs
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[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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This book discusses the habits and life cycle of prairie dogs and examines their place in the ecology of their grassland environment.
10) Deer and elk
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Text and photographs highlight the diversity and adaptability of deer and elk, and discuss recent conservation efforts. life, and habitat of the African elephant.
13) Horses
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c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the physical characteristics, history, and behavior of horses and discusses their interactions with humans.
15) Baby horses
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1985
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Describes the activities of foals in their first months of life.
17) Apple trees
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[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the life cycle of an apple tree and how different varieties of apples are grown and harvested.