Author: Craig Wooton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504967933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Inspired by a father in naval aviation, living on air bases right next to their runways around the US and throughout the Pacific definitely played a big part in his dream to be a pilot. That dream would be slowed only shortly by the Vietnam conflict. However, the four years he would spend in the US Navy would prove invaluable to him in his future flying plans. With the help of a very special person in his life, hard work and determination, he would realize his dream. This book tells of some of the adventures in his life. From the Jungles of Asia to the Galapagos islands, not just as a TV news, police, fire fighting and tuna boat pilot, but his amazing interactions with wildlife every where he went and much, much more!
Turtle Rider
Author: Craig Wooton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504967933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Inspired by a father in naval aviation, living on air bases right next to their runways around the US and throughout the Pacific definitely played a big part in his dream to be a pilot. That dream would be slowed only shortly by the Vietnam conflict. However, the four years he would spend in the US Navy would prove invaluable to him in his future flying plans. With the help of a very special person in his life, hard work and determination, he would realize his dream. This book tells of some of the adventures in his life. From the Jungles of Asia to the Galapagos islands, not just as a TV news, police, fire fighting and tuna boat pilot, but his amazing interactions with wildlife every where he went and much, much more!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504967933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Inspired by a father in naval aviation, living on air bases right next to their runways around the US and throughout the Pacific definitely played a big part in his dream to be a pilot. That dream would be slowed only shortly by the Vietnam conflict. However, the four years he would spend in the US Navy would prove invaluable to him in his future flying plans. With the help of a very special person in his life, hard work and determination, he would realize his dream. This book tells of some of the adventures in his life. From the Jungles of Asia to the Galapagos islands, not just as a TV news, police, fire fighting and tuna boat pilot, but his amazing interactions with wildlife every where he went and much, much more!
Turtle Rider
Author: Craig Wooton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781504967945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Inspired by a father in naval aviation, living on air bases right next to their runways around the US and throughout the Pacific definitely played a big part in his dream to be a pilot. That dream would be slowed only shortly by the Vietnam conflict. However, the four years he would spend in the US Navy would prove invaluable to him in his future flying plans. With the help of a very special person in his life, hard work and determination, he would realize his dream. This book tells of some of the adventures in his life. From the Jungles of Asia to the Galapagos islands, not just as a TV news, police, fire fighting and tuna boat pilot, but his amazing interactions with wildlife every where he went and much, much more!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781504967945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Inspired by a father in naval aviation, living on air bases right next to their runways around the US and throughout the Pacific definitely played a big part in his dream to be a pilot. That dream would be slowed only shortly by the Vietnam conflict. However, the four years he would spend in the US Navy would prove invaluable to him in his future flying plans. With the help of a very special person in his life, hard work and determination, he would realize his dream. This book tells of some of the adventures in his life. From the Jungles of Asia to the Galapagos islands, not just as a TV news, police, fire fighting and tuna boat pilot, but his amazing interactions with wildlife every where he went and much, much more!
Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach
Author: Jen Marlin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006302926X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their first mission? Rescuing baby sea turtles in the beautiful waters of Hawaii. Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned sailboat. They’re given the chance to make a real impact when the boat magically brings them them to a different corner of the world to help other kids save their environment! Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach is the first book in an illustrated chapter book series about Max and Sofia’s adventures tackling real world problems. Each story visits a new location and introduces a human-made problem endangering animals and the environment. With nature’s highest stakes and environmental activism baked into each book, as well as fun scientific facts included at the end, Wind Riders promises to be the chapter book series for newly independent readers who love nature documentaries and are hungry to learn about the world around them. There is beautiful two-color art throughout and an emphasis on collaborative problem-solving, compassion for the Earth and all its inhabitants, and friendship. Wind Riders is the perfect STEM chapter book series for fans of Magic Tree House, The Magic School Bus, and Zoey and Sassafras.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006302926X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their first mission? Rescuing baby sea turtles in the beautiful waters of Hawaii. Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned sailboat. They’re given the chance to make a real impact when the boat magically brings them them to a different corner of the world to help other kids save their environment! Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach is the first book in an illustrated chapter book series about Max and Sofia’s adventures tackling real world problems. Each story visits a new location and introduces a human-made problem endangering animals and the environment. With nature’s highest stakes and environmental activism baked into each book, as well as fun scientific facts included at the end, Wind Riders promises to be the chapter book series for newly independent readers who love nature documentaries and are hungry to learn about the world around them. There is beautiful two-color art throughout and an emphasis on collaborative problem-solving, compassion for the Earth and all its inhabitants, and friendship. Wind Riders is the perfect STEM chapter book series for fans of Magic Tree House, The Magic School Bus, and Zoey and Sassafras.
Voyage of the Turtle
Author: Carl Safina
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 5: Snapdragons: The Chatterbox Turtle
Author: Cynthia Rider
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198455417
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Easy-to-use reading notes for parents/carers are included on the inside cover of each book. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198455417
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Easy-to-use reading notes for parents/carers are included on the inside cover of each book. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.
Treasure Dogs
Author: Heather Dunboine
Publisher: Will Sadler
ISBN: 0983219001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher: Will Sadler
ISBN: 0983219001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
A Strange Company
Author: Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Turtle Boy
Author: M. Evan Wolkenstein
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0593121589
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD WINNER A boy who has spent his life living inside a shell discovers the importance of taking chance in this "winner" (Booklist, starred review) of a friendship story that's perfect for fans of Wonder. It's the year of Will Levine's bar mitzvah, and for his community service project, he's expected to go to the hospital to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease. Will can't think of anything worse, mainly because he will have to face his fear of hospitals. Life in the seventh grade isn't much easier. The kids are relentless--they bully Will because of his funny looking chin. When Will and RJ first meet, they DO NOT get along. Then RJ shares his bucket list with Will. Among the things he wants to do: ride a roller coaster; go to a school dance; swim in the ocean. To Will, happiness is hanging out in his room, alone, preferably with the turtles he collects. But as RJ's disease worsens, Will realizes he needs to tackle the bucket list on RJ's behalf before it's too late. It seems like an impossible mission, way outside Will's comfort zone. But as he completes each task with RJ's guidance, Will learns that life is too short to live in a shell. "Everyone deserves a friend like Will Levine." --Lynne Kelly, author of Song for a Whale
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0593121589
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD WINNER A boy who has spent his life living inside a shell discovers the importance of taking chance in this "winner" (Booklist, starred review) of a friendship story that's perfect for fans of Wonder. It's the year of Will Levine's bar mitzvah, and for his community service project, he's expected to go to the hospital to visit RJ, an older boy struggling with an incurable disease. Will can't think of anything worse, mainly because he will have to face his fear of hospitals. Life in the seventh grade isn't much easier. The kids are relentless--they bully Will because of his funny looking chin. When Will and RJ first meet, they DO NOT get along. Then RJ shares his bucket list with Will. Among the things he wants to do: ride a roller coaster; go to a school dance; swim in the ocean. To Will, happiness is hanging out in his room, alone, preferably with the turtles he collects. But as RJ's disease worsens, Will realizes he needs to tackle the bucket list on RJ's behalf before it's too late. It seems like an impossible mission, way outside Will's comfort zone. But as he completes each task with RJ's guidance, Will learns that life is too short to live in a shell. "Everyone deserves a friend like Will Levine." --Lynne Kelly, author of Song for a Whale
Wind Riders: Search for the Scarlet Macaws
Author: Jen Marlin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063029316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their second mission? Protecting majestic scarlet macaw chicks in the most biodiverse place on Earth, the Amazon rain forest. Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned sailboat. They’re given the chance to make a real impact when the boat magically transports them to a different corner of the world to help other kids save their environment. Wind Riders: Search for the Scarlet Macaws is the second book in an illustrated chapter book series about Max and Sofia’s adventures tackling real world problems. Each story visits a new location and introduces a human-made problem endangering animals and the environment. With nature’s highest stakes and environmental activism baked into each book, as well as fun scientific facts included at the end, Wind Riders promises to be the chapter book series for newly independent readers who love nature documentaries and are hungry to learn about the world around them. There is beautiful two-color art throughout and an emphasis on collaborative problem-solving, compassion for the Earth and all its inhabitants, and friendship. Wind Riders is the perfect STEM chapter book series for fans of Magic Tree House, The Magic School Bus, and Zoey and Sassafras.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063029316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their second mission? Protecting majestic scarlet macaw chicks in the most biodiverse place on Earth, the Amazon rain forest. Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned sailboat. They’re given the chance to make a real impact when the boat magically transports them to a different corner of the world to help other kids save their environment. Wind Riders: Search for the Scarlet Macaws is the second book in an illustrated chapter book series about Max and Sofia’s adventures tackling real world problems. Each story visits a new location and introduces a human-made problem endangering animals and the environment. With nature’s highest stakes and environmental activism baked into each book, as well as fun scientific facts included at the end, Wind Riders promises to be the chapter book series for newly independent readers who love nature documentaries and are hungry to learn about the world around them. There is beautiful two-color art throughout and an emphasis on collaborative problem-solving, compassion for the Earth and all its inhabitants, and friendship. Wind Riders is the perfect STEM chapter book series for fans of Magic Tree House, The Magic School Bus, and Zoey and Sassafras.
Riding in the Zone
Author: Ken Condon
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780760366943
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Riding motorcycles is fun, but author Ken Condon maintains that there is a state of consciousness to be achieved beyond the simple pleasure of riding down the road. Riding in the Zone helps riders find that state of being. It's the experience of being physically and mentally present in the moment, where every sense is sharply attuned to the ride. Your mind becomes silent to the chatter of daily life, and everyday problems seem to dissolve. You feel a deeper appreciation for life. Your body responds to this state of being with precise, fluid movements, you feel in balance, your muscles are relaxed, and it seems as though every input you make is an expression of mastery. This is "the Zone." Condon identifies all of the factors that affect entering the Zone and addresses each one individually, from the development of awareness and mental skills to mastering physical control of the motorcycle. At the end of each chapter are drills designed to transform the book's ideas into solid, practical riding skills. Riding in the Zone takes riders to the next level in their skill set.
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780760366943
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Riding motorcycles is fun, but author Ken Condon maintains that there is a state of consciousness to be achieved beyond the simple pleasure of riding down the road. Riding in the Zone helps riders find that state of being. It's the experience of being physically and mentally present in the moment, where every sense is sharply attuned to the ride. Your mind becomes silent to the chatter of daily life, and everyday problems seem to dissolve. You feel a deeper appreciation for life. Your body responds to this state of being with precise, fluid movements, you feel in balance, your muscles are relaxed, and it seems as though every input you make is an expression of mastery. This is "the Zone." Condon identifies all of the factors that affect entering the Zone and addresses each one individually, from the development of awareness and mental skills to mastering physical control of the motorcycle. At the end of each chapter are drills designed to transform the book's ideas into solid, practical riding skills. Riding in the Zone takes riders to the next level in their skill set.