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Which animal athletes would win the gold, silver, and bronze medal in a swimming competition: the sailfish, leatherback sea turtle, or bottlenose dolphin? Explore the animal kingdom's best swimmers and compare how their skills rate against one another. Additional features include fun facts, captivating photos, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.|Index|Table of contents|Suggested websites|Sources for further research|Glossary...
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Which animal athletes would win the gold, silver, and bronze medal in a diving competition: the thick-billed murre, Cuvier's beaked whale, or Southern elephant seal? Explore the animal kingdom's best divers and compare how their skills rate against one another. Additional features include fun facts, captivating photos, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Which animal athletes would win the gold, silver, and bronze medal in a weightlifting competition: the mountain gorilla, horned dung beetle, or bald eagle? Explore the animal kingdom's strongest animals and compare how their skills rate against one another. Additional features include fun facts, captivating photos, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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The book, Animals Have Classes Too!: Mammals, introduces young readers to animal classifications by explaining how mammals are grouped. Through photos, text, and sidebars, this title explores the differences and similarities between several classes, families, genera, and species of mammals, and how animal classification works. Readers will discover what traits put mammals in a class of their own. The Animals Have Classes Too! series for grades 1–3...
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Around the world, skilled animals hunt and catch their prey. Learn more about the great white shark and the special characteristics that make it such an excellent predator. This title takes you on the hunt with well-researched, clearly written informational text,
primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
6) Alligators
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a cold-blooded, creepy-crawly alligator? Learn all about this incredible reptile in this upper-elementary title. This title offers an in-depth look at alligators, including their physical characteristics, behavior, survival, techniques, life cycle, habitat and range, and threats to the animal.
Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing,...
7) Sea Turtles
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a cold-blooded, creepy-crawly sea turtle? Learn all about this incredible reptile in this upper-elementary title. This title offers an in-depth look at sea turtles, including their physical characteristics, behavior, survival, techniques, life cycle, habitat and range, and threats to the animal.
Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing,...
8) Herding Dogs
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This title introduces young dog lovers to the sport of herding, covering everything from the history of the sport to conditioning, training, and competing. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a photo diagram, and a glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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