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22) The wild robot
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Book Club Kits: Kindergarten to Third Grader Choices
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Summer Reading Challenge: Environmentalism Books
NYT - Children’s Series
Summer Reading Challenge: Environmentalism Books
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history-sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands-an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the...
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Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left. Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping to reconcile...
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Irene Steele's idyllic life-house, husband, family-is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene flies down to the beautiful Caribbean beaches of St. John...
27) Terrific
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"Terrific," says Eugene after winning an all-expenses-paid cruise to Bermuda. "I ll probably get a really nasty sunburn." Unfortunately, his luck is much worse than that until he meets a parrot that helps him change his luck
28) The sea pony
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2016.
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On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper wants a horse but finds, instead, another object hidden in the red maple tree.
29) Time of wonder
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Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
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[2023]
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"Whether you want to hit the beach at Grace Bay, scuba dive along the Columbus Passage, or relax at a luxury resort on Providenciales, the local Fodor's travel experts in Turks & Caicos are here to help! Fodor's In Focus Turks & Caicos Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned...
33) The Galapago Islands and Ecuador: your essential handbook for exploring Darwin's enchanted islands
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2015.
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies...
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"A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed...
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c2006
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"Join the Roberts family as they travel through Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands encountering all sorts of adventure along the way. From swimming with dolphins to seaplane rides, 'Travel with kids Caribbean' gives viewers an in-depth look at family travel in the tropics. By integrating historical and natural facts into an entertaining presentation, 'Travel with kids Caribbean' makes your trip an educational journey. Explore colonial forts at...
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