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Vibrant, colorful collages and an inviting text take readers on a journey through a rain forest, investigating the plants and animals that dwell there. 35,000 first printing.
By Brenda Z. Guiberson and Steve Jenkins (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780805065824 | 1 edition (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, April 1, 2004), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Takes a journey through a rain forest, investigating the plants and animals that dwell there.

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Product Description: Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude...read more

School and Library:

9780805081701 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 8, 2010, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Mummies are like time capsules guarding long-lost information. Adapted from the acclaimed chapter book, the three stories in this book convey strange stories and fantastic facts that beginning readers can use to solve msyteries from the past...read more

Hardcover:

9780805089769 | Square Fish, July 16, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Mummies are like time capsules guarding long-lost information.
9780805053692 | Henry Holt & Co, September 15, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents various accounts of mummies found throughout North America and what these bodies reveal about the times in which they lived

Paperback:

9781250010476 | Square Fish, July 16, 2013, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Mummies are like time capsules guarding long-lost information.

Prebinding:

9780606318990 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, July 16, 2013), cover price $13.55 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Descibes some of the creatures that live in the ocean.

Hardcover:

9780439205504 | Scholastic, March 1, 2001, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Descibes some of the creatures that live in the ocean.

Paperback:

9780545273367 | Scholastic, August 1, 2011, cover price $3.99 | also contains Ocean Life
9780439316323 | Scholastic Reference, March 1, 2002, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: An exploration of the many extraordinary creatures that live in the sea, including coral shrimp, whales, sharks, and dolphins.

Reinforced:

9780606249140 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: An exploration of the many extraordinary creatures that live in the sea, including coral shrimp, whales, sharks, and dolphins.

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A big book version of a nonfiction best-seller describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers. Reprint.
By Megan Lloyd (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780805082289 | Big rep edition (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, October 16, 2007), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A big book version of a nonfiction best-seller describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers.

Paperback:

9780805029604 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, September 1, 1993), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers

School and Library:

9780805013337 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1991, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers

Reinforced:

9780606057752 | Demco Media, September 1, 1993, cover price $15.77 | About this edition: Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers

Prebinding:

9781442005990 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.95

Provides a look at the life of one flamingo through its complete cycle of life, from breaking out of its egg under the supervision of its parents and learning to swim through finding his own food and returning to the mud city to be with his group in order to find a mate of his own.

School and Library:

9780805071771 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Provides a look at the life of one flamingo through his complete cycle of life, from breaking out of his egg under the supervision of his parents and learning to swim through finding his own food and returning to the mud city to be with his group in order to find a mate of his own.

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Chronicles the miracle of survival of an emperor penguin egg, laid in the middle of winter in the coldest place on Earth, describing the behavior of the father emperor penguin whose task it is to care for the egg until it hatches.

Reinforced:

9780606328463 | Demco Media, December 8, 2004, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Chronicles the miracle of survival of an emperor penguin egg, laid in the middle of winter in the coldest place on Earth, describing the behavior of the father emperor penguin whose task it is to care for the egg until it hatches.

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Photographs and easy text introduce sharks, their habitats, and behaviors, as well as detailing a few of the more than 350 varieties of sharks.

Paperback:

9780439425032 | Scholastic Reference, March 1, 2003, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Photographs and easy text introduce sharks, their habitats, and behaviors, as well as detailing a few of the more than 350 varieties of sharks.

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Provides a year in the life of a penguin family as the mother emperor penguin lays her egg, the father protects it and keeps it warm until it hatches, and the little baby grows big enough to go on its own for its very first swim during Antarctica's short summer. 25,000 first printing.
By Brenda Z. Guiberson and Joan Paley (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780070109391, titled "Pressure Vessels: The Asme Code Simplified" | 7th edition (McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1993), cover price $69.95 | also contains Pressure Vessels: The Asme Code Simplified

Paperback:

9780805076363 | Square Fish, September 1, 2004, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the miracle of survival of an emperor penguin egg, laid in the middle of winter in the coldest place on Earth, describing the behavior of the father emperor penguin whose task it is to care for the egg until it hatches.

School and Library:

9780805062045 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, December 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the miracle of survival of an emperor penguin egg, laid in the middle of winter in the coldest place on Earth, describing the behavior of the father emperor penguin whose task it is to care for the egg until it hatches.

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A comprehensive non-fiction piece offers young readers a collection of tales from the sea where legendary myths and lore are examined. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780805060577 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Nonfiction accounts of ships that sank inexplicably, and other mysterious maritime occurrences.

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Follows the life of a sea turtle from its hatching on a beach, through its years in the sea, and its return to land where it lays its eggs.
By Alix Berenzy (illustrator) and Brenda Z. Guiberson

Paperback:

9780805064810 | Reprint edition (Square Fish, June 1, 2000), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Follows the life of a sea turtle from its hatching on a beach, through its years in the sea, and its return to land where it lays its eggs.

School and Library:

9780805022636 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, August 15, 1996, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Follows the life of a sea turtle from its hatching on a beach, through its years in the sea, and its return to land where it lays its eggs

Presents the problems non-native plants and animals cause when they enter a new environment and the effects they have on native species and the balance of nature on an island or particular piece of land.

Library:

9780761313199 | Twenty First Century Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $24.90 | About this edition: Examines the topic of species that have been introduced into a new environment and have subsequently harmed the established species

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Young readers can learn how President Roosevelt's love of animals at an early age led to the enactment of laws to conserve wild animals and their natural habitats.

School and Library:

9780805042962 | Henry Holt & Co, September 15, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Follows a year in the life of a mother elk, her calf, and a bull in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State where these animals are named in honor of President Roosevelt

A history of lighthouses chronicles their construction as part of a plan to save ships and sailors from the perilous seas, in a study that introduces young readers to the lore and legends that surround these tall structures.

Hardcover:

9780805031706 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the history of lighthouses from the struggle to build invincible towers, through heroic rescues of lost ships, to the haunted tales surrounding these isolated structures

A portrait in words and watercolors of life on the family farm follows Farmer Albert and his dog Stitch on his rounds, tending to the chickens, weeding the garden, picking apples, and planting and harvesting the winter wheat.
By Brenda Z. Guiberson and Megan Lloyd (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780805015829 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the spring along with his collie, Stitch, a farmer checks on his wheat crop, and finds that some of the crop has been strangled by weeds, some eaten by elk, and hopes that the remaining crop is not lost to the weather

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Describes the salmon's life journey to the sea and back, and the threat posed by pollution, commercial fishing, and other factors

Hardcover:

9780805027549 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the salmon's life journey to the sea and back, and the threat posed by pollution, commercial fishing, and other factors

Paperback:

9780805042542 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Describes the salmon's life journey to the sea and back, and the threat posed by pollution, commercial fishing, and other factors

An impartial exploration of the controversy between loggers and environmentalists over the protection of the spotted owl explains how delicate the balance of nature is and how difficult it is becoming for threatened creatures to survive.

Hardcover:

9780805031713 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the balance of nature necessary for the spotted owl and other creatures living in old-growth forests to survive, and talks about man's economic dependence on these forests
9780762818013 | Book Sales, November 1, 1994, cover price $3.99

Product Description: One hot summer day, a mother alligator and a mother spoonbill leave their babies and go into the swamp to look for food. Suddenly, the alligator spies the bright pink feathers of the spoonbill. Will the spoonbill get away?

Hardcover:

9780805015836 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Depicts a swamp and the creatures that inhabit it, focusing on the day-to-day activities of spoonbills and alligators

Paperback:

9780804568203 | Pap/cas edition (Spoken Arts, April 1, 1994), cover price $17.90 | About this edition: One hot summer day, a mother alligator and a mother spoonbill leave their babies and go into the swamp to look for food.
9780805033854 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1994, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Depicts a swamp and the creatures that inhabit it, focusing on the day-to-day activities of spoonbills and alligators

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Tommy spends the day on a lobster boat helping Uncle Russ tend the traps, set bait, pull up the traps, and sell their catch
By Brenda Z. Guiberson and Megan Lloyd (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780805017564 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tommy spends the day on a lobster boat helping Uncle Russ tend the traps, set bait, pull up the traps, and sell their catch

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Darlene's plans to spend her winter break at the mall with best friend Stacy are interrupted when Mom gives Darlene the job of babysitting for her four-year-old cousin

School and Library:

9780689316883 | Atheneum, September 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Darlene's plans to spend her winter break at the mall with best friend Stacy are interrupted when Mom gives Darlene the job of babysitting for her four-year-old cousin

Depressed by the continuing absence of his beloved father and the distant behavior of his mother, eleven-year-old Richie retreats to a remote island near his Washington State home and finds a great archeological mystery

School and Library:

9780689316470 | Atheneum, November 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Depressed by the continuing absence of his beloved father and the distant behavior of his mother, eleven-year-old Richie retreats to a remote island near his Washington State home and finds a great archeological mystery

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