Author: Gail Ablow
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763628383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Strange, but true, stories featuring animals from around the world.

Author: Lori Polydoros
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429645512
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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"Describes unusual animals and their strange behaviors"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 159884377X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Here's help in selecting current, nonfiction books that will get boys excited about reading. Enticing boys to read is still a hot topic. With chapters like "Disasters and Mysteries," "Gross and Disgusting," "Machines and the Military," and "Prehistoric Creatures," Gotcha Again for Guys!: More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading is a treasure trove of recent nonfiction books that will interest boys in grades 3-8. This sixth entry in Baxter and Kochel's Gotcha series covers books published between 2007 and 2009, with a few oldies-but-goodies also included. The book is organized into 12 thematic chapters, each of which offers booktalks for a select number of titles, followed by a list of other high-interest, well-reviewed titles that correspond with the chapter's topic. Features new to this volume include numerous booklists to be copied and saved, as well as profiles of new and innovative nonfiction authors writing for this age group. In addition, the book features interviews with seven male authors of nonfiction books for boys.

Author: Holly Diehl
Publisher: Shell Education
ISBN: 9781425806323
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Understanding text is key to students' learning success! This notebook provides explicit instructions for teaching six fundamental comprehension strategies; predicting, making connections, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and summarizing.

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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Dana Ferguson
Publisher: Children's Book Review Index C
ISBN: 9780787695453
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.

Author: Kate Bernheimer
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Eight marvelous, melancholy new fairy tales for daring readers.

Author: Sarah Maslin Nir
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501196243
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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ONE OF USA TODAY'S “20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS” In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people—including herself—are obsessed with horses. It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America—even more than when they were the only means of transportation—and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn’t stopped since. Horse Crazy is a fascinating, funny, and moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who—like her—are obsessed with them. It is also a coming-of-age story of Nir growing up an outsider within the world’s most elite inner circles, and finding her true north in horses. Nir takes readers into the lesser-known corners of the riding world and profiles some of its most captivating figures. We meet Monty Roberts, the California trainer whose prowess earned him the nickname “the man who listens to horses,” and his pet deer; George and Ann Blair, who at their riding academy on a tiny island in Manhattan’s Harlem River seek to resurrect the erased legacy of the African American cowboy; and Francesca Kelly, whose love for an Indian nobleman shaped her life’s mission: to protect an endangered Indian breed of horse and bring them to America. Woven into these compelling character studies, Nir shares her own moving personal narrative. She details her father’s harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust, and describes an enchanted but deeply lonely upbringing in Manhattan, where horses became her family. She found them even in the middle of the city, in a stable disguised in an old townhouse and in Central Park, when she chased down truants as an auxiliary mounted patrol officer. And she speaks candidly of how horses have helped her overcome heartbreak and loss. Infused with heart and wit, and with each chapter named after a horse Nir has loved, Horse Crazy is an unforgettable blend of beautifully written memoir and first-rate reporting.

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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Howard Waldrop
Publisher: Small Beer Press
ISBN: 1618730746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Literary mashup master Waldrop is back with new stories of pirates, hidden movie history, the Wolfman of Alcatraz, and more.