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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses through short essays and poems, ten endangered species that live in forests or jungles, including scientific information about each, reasons for its endangered status, and descriptions of efforts to protect it.
3) Open season
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
oe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden--especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When a young orca was spotted alone in Puget Sound, no one knew where she'd come from, but they knew it was dangerous for her to be left there alone. Scientists and researchers from two countries had to work together to determine where the orca came from, and then to decide how to save her. The riveting story is told by Donna Sandstrom, a citizen volunteer with the rescue effort. From identifying the orca as a missing calf named Springer, to transporting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Wild animals are facing huge challenges in the natural world today. Many are endangered--some critically. This eye-opening book shows how animals are being threatened by habitat loss, climate change, non-native species taking over their habitats, pollution, over-fishing, poaching, collisions with cars and boats, and human diseases. Many recovery efforts are in progress to bring back the populations of some nearly extinct animals and to reintroduce...
10) The sea otter
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents information on the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, various species, and life cycle of sea turtles, along with a discussion of their endangered status and the efforts being made to study and conserve them.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
14) One small hop
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Ahab Goldstein is a seventh-grader living in an United States (specifically Maine) where the environment has turned toxic, and the corrupt Environmental Police Force is in control, limiting access to natural resources like gas and water, issuing fines, and transporting "fragile" species (pretty much all of them) to the Center for Species Rehabilitation in New Arcadia (a dubious refuge at best); so when Ahab and his friends find a real live bullfrog...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Elephant Doctor of India is the heart-quickening true story of a boy who loved elephants and grew up to forge a maverick path to help them. Dramatic, moving, and packed with fascinating elephant facts, young readers will find inspiration and excitement on every page. No matter what age you are, if you love elephants, you will love this book."—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and Kakapo Rescue...
17) The maze
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It wasn't so long ago when a lot of people thought the Florida panther was extinct. They were very nearly right. That the panther still exists at all is a miracle--the result of a desperate experiment that led to the most remarkable comeback in the history of the Endangered Species Act. And no one has told the whole story--until now. With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the rise of a Yellowstone wolf, and what her life and death tell us about the struggle for the American West. --
"The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists...
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