One Day in the Desert

One Day in the Desert PDF Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606097123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.

One Day in the Desert

One Day in the Desert PDF Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606097123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.

Sharks in the Desert

Sharks in the Desert PDF Author: John L. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569802748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The story fo the evolution of the gambling racket from mobbed-up vice to corporate success story as told through the biographies of the men who made it happen.

Gathering the Desert

Gathering the Desert PDF Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510146
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

Blue Desert

Blue Desert PDF Author: Charles Bowden
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510818
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Book Description
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

In the Desert

In the Desert PDF Author: Howard Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9780743983563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Book Description
This book takes a closer look at the main characteristics of a desert, how they're formed, and how plants and animals have adapted to their arid environment. Reads at a level of 2.5 with a word count of 558.

A Diamond in the Desert

A Diamond in the Desert PDF Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560215
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever thinks about. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tetsu and his family are forced from their home into an internment camp in the Arizona desert with other Japanese Americans, and baseball becomes the last thing on his mind. The camp isn’t technically a prison, but it sure feels like one when there’s nothing to do and no place to go. So when a man starts up a boys’ baseball team, Tetsu is only too eager to play again. But with his sister suddenly falling ill, and his father taken away for questioning, Tetsu is forced to choose between his family and his love of the game.

On This Side of the Desert

On This Side of the Desert PDF Author: Alfredo Aguilar
Publisher: Wick First Book
ISBN: 9781606354063
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Winner of the 2019 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Natalie Diaz, judge i say / my mother's name, / cristina & desert marigolds / crack through a boulder. / i say my father's name, martin / & all the novena candles / in the bed of the truck are aglow. These lines from the book's titular poem "On This Side of the Desert" encapsulate the dominant themes of the collection: the power and meaning derived from the act of naming; the deep interconnectedness of Latinx cultures, a product of strong family traditions and an intimate relationship with the natural world; and a profound spirituality rooted in the sacraments of Catholic orthodoxy. This poem, like many of those in Aguilar's collection is written from the perspective of a young boy growing up along the Mexican border. As Aguilar chronicles the unique challenges faced by border communities where surviving the desert is a perpetual struggle, and the distress of finding "an entire skeleton in torn clothes" is muted by frequency, he also modernizes the traditional pastoral form to encompass both beauty and trauma. This debut book of poetry describes the experience of being raised in southern California as a child of Mexican immigrants in the shadow of the borderlands. Just as the borderlands are defined by the desert, so, too, are its inhabitants defined by their families, their culture shaped from the clay of the Sonoran desert and given life by the nourishing water of their ancestors. In these poems, the desert is recognized for what it truly is--a living, breathing body filled with both joy and pain.

Emily's Day in the Desert

Emily's Day in the Desert PDF Author: Giselle Shardlow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530908950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
Experience the benefits of yoga while learning about the desert! Join Emily as she spends a day in the Death Valley desert with her parents. Learn about the desert through easy yoga poses for kids while you glide like a hawk, dart like a fox, and slither like a snake! The storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story. This desert yoga story for ages 4 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.

Quest in the Desert

Quest in the Desert PDF Author: Roy Chapman Andrews
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
An American scientific expedition to explore the Gobi Desert faces many dangers, but survives with the help of the leader's dog and a friendly Mongolian ruler.

Desert Oracle

Desert Oracle PDF Author: Ken Layne
Publisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374722382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Book Description
The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.