Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1728412668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. ThenWHAM!the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
When Lunch Fights Back
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1728412668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. ThenWHAM!the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1728412668
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. ThenWHAM!the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
American Badgers
Author: Rebecca Sabelko
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681035200
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Sleepy badgers can nap for 29 hours at a time! These burrowing critters love some shut-eye, but they are effective predators and fierce fighters, too. This title for beginning readers goes deep inside the American badger’s life underground.
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681035200
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Sleepy badgers can nap for 29 hours at a time! These burrowing critters love some shut-eye, but they are effective predators and fierce fighters, too. This title for beginning readers goes deep inside the American badger’s life underground.
Gray Wolves
Author: Christina Leaf
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 161211993X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
In childrenÕs stories, gray wolves are often cast as villains. But these powerful predators are a vital part of North AmericaÕs wilderness. Hunt down more information about these important animals in this title for young readers.
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 161211993X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
In childrenÕs stories, gray wolves are often cast as villains. But these powerful predators are a vital part of North AmericaÕs wilderness. Hunt down more information about these important animals in this title for young readers.
The Most Dangerous
Author: Terri Fields
Publisher: Arbordale Pub
ISBN: 9781607185260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A story of the most dangerous animals in the world competing in the Most Dangerous Animal of All Contest, including a shark, a tiger, and a mosquito.
Publisher: Arbordale Pub
ISBN: 9781607185260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A story of the most dangerous animals in the world competing in the Most Dangerous Animal of All Contest, including a shark, a tiger, and a mosquito.
Arctic Food Chains
Author: Rebecca Pettiford
Publisher: Who Eats What
ISBN: 9781620313008
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Arctic Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the Arctic biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals in an Arctic environment. A map helps readers locate the Arctic region, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about Arctic food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Arctic Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Arctic Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series.
Publisher: Who Eats What
ISBN: 9781620313008
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Arctic Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the Arctic biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals in an Arctic environment. A map helps readers locate the Arctic region, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about Arctic food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Arctic Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Arctic Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series.
Girl Fights Back
Author: Jacques Antoine
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781490359298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A military-genetics experiment gone missing captures the attention of every intelligence agency in the world, and they will stop at nothing to find it. Meet quiet, unassuming Emily Kane. Her only passion is the martial arts, and her only friends are the boys from the dojo. Not until a trained assassin attacks her on a college visit, does she realize the danger her family secrets pose to everyone she cares about. Now, using the skills she learned from her father, she takes the fight to her enemies, and discovers an alarming talent for mayhem. The only thing more terrifying than the men hunting her is what she may discover about herself.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781490359298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A military-genetics experiment gone missing captures the attention of every intelligence agency in the world, and they will stop at nothing to find it. Meet quiet, unassuming Emily Kane. Her only passion is the martial arts, and her only friends are the boys from the dojo. Not until a trained assassin attacks her on a college visit, does she realize the danger her family secrets pose to everyone she cares about. Now, using the skills she learned from her father, she takes the fight to her enemies, and discovers an alarming talent for mayhem. The only thing more terrifying than the men hunting her is what she may discover about herself.
Ocean Food Chains
Author: Rebecca Pettiford
Publisher: Who Eats What
ISBN: 9781620313022
Category : Food chains (Ecology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Ocean Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the ocean biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals in a marine environment. A map helps readers identify the world's oceans, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about ocean food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Ocean Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Ocean Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series.
Publisher: Who Eats What
ISBN: 9781620313022
Category : Food chains (Ecology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Ocean Food Chains, early fluent readers explore the ocean biome and the food chains it supports. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they explore how energy flows through plants and animals in a marine environment. A map helps readers identify the world's oceans, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about ocean food chains using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Ocean Food Chains also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Ocean Food Chains is part of Jump!'s Who Eats What? series.
When Lunch Fights Back
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1467772755
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1467772755
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
Masters of Disguise
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1541528433
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
In the animal kingdom, survival is the name of the game—and not everything is as it seems. A number of animals rely on particularly clever tricks to fool predators or prey. A baby bird mimics a poisonous caterpillar. A moth escapes bats by making sounds that interfere with the bats' echolocation. A tiny rain forest spider builds a big spider "puppet" out of bits of dead leaves, insect parts, and other items. Find out more about some of nature's most bizarre and bloodthirsty con artists and meet the scientists who are working to figure out just how they pull off their amazing tricks.
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1541528433
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
In the animal kingdom, survival is the name of the game—and not everything is as it seems. A number of animals rely on particularly clever tricks to fool predators or prey. A baby bird mimics a poisonous caterpillar. A moth escapes bats by making sounds that interfere with the bats' echolocation. A tiny rain forest spider builds a big spider "puppet" out of bits of dead leaves, insect parts, and other items. Find out more about some of nature's most bizarre and bloodthirsty con artists and meet the scientists who are working to figure out just how they pull off their amazing tricks.
Nature's Ninja
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 154154241X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Did you know that some animals have natural ninja-like talents? In this book, you'll learn all about them, including geckos, sea urchins, bombardier beetles, and more. For example, geckos can grip almost any surface--including walls and ceilings--with their amazing toes. And when collector urchins are attacked, they release tiny, sharp objects that bear a striking resemblance to throwing stars. You will also meet the scientists who are studying these animals' amazing abilities.
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 154154241X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Did you know that some animals have natural ninja-like talents? In this book, you'll learn all about them, including geckos, sea urchins, bombardier beetles, and more. For example, geckos can grip almost any surface--including walls and ceilings--with their amazing toes. And when collector urchins are attacked, they release tiny, sharp objects that bear a striking resemblance to throwing stars. You will also meet the scientists who are studying these animals' amazing abilities.