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Product Description: From airplanes to football helmets, some of the greatest inventions of all time have been based on the natural abilities of plants and animals. Readers will learn how some of history's most imaginative inventors were inspired by nature and how their incredible creations continue to improve our lives today...read more

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9781624317590 | Cherry Lake Pub, January 1, 2014, cover price $14.21

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9781624317538 | Cherry Lake Pub, January 1, 2014, cover price $29.93 | About this edition: From airplanes to football helmets, some of the greatest inventions of all time have been based on the natural abilities of plants and animals.

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Product Description: Snakes, lizards, rabbits, mice, mountain lions, and hawks are some of the many animals that make up a desert food web. But do you know how desert animals depend on cactuses, grasses, and other plants to stay alive? Or why tiny insects, fungi, and bacteria may be among the most important living things in a desert? See desert food webs in action in this fascinating book...read more

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9781467715522 | Lerner Pub Group, August 1, 2013, cover price $9.99

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9781467712941 | Lerner Pub Group, August 1, 2013, cover price $29.32 | About this edition: Snakes, lizards, rabbits, mice, mountain lions, and hawks are some of the many animals that make up a desert food web.

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Product Description: In this adventurous nonfiction title, elementary readers discover poisonous plants and dangerous animals from deserts around the world. Readers will be enthralled with its vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts about desert ecology and desert plants and animals, including sidewinder snakes, dingos, desert locusts, and barrel cacti...read more

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9781433348976 | 2 edition (Shell Education, November 1, 2012), cover price $10.99 | About this edition: In this adventurous nonfiction title, elementary readers discover poisonous plants and dangerous animals from deserts around the world.

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9781432941758 | Rev upd edition (Heinemann/Raintree, September 1, 2010), cover price $34.00

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Presents an introduction to the deserts of the world and the kinds of plants and animals that inhabit them.

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9781580134415 | Gardners Books, May 1, 2008, cover price $9.90
9780822553731 | Lerner Pub Group, January 1, 2005, cover price $5.95

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9780822525974 | Lerner Pub Group, May 16, 2005, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Presents an introduction to the deserts of the world and the kinds of plants and animals that inhabit them.

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Asks readers to identify specific plants and animals in a picture of a desert, and then introduces facts about each one.

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9780836863000 | Gareth Stevens Pub, December 15, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Asks readers to identify specific plants and animals in a picture of a desert, and then introduces facts about each one.

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Describes desert plants, how desert plants are used, and why they need to be protected.

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9780736843218 | Bridgestone Books, July 15, 2005, cover price $23.32 | About this edition: 'Describes desert plants, how desert plants are used, and why they need to be protected'--Provided by publisher.

Describes how various plants adapt to life in the desert, including the prickly pear cactus, sagebrush, and Indian blanket

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9781403405272 | Not Applicable, August 1, 2002, cover price $7.99

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9781575728216 | Rigby Interactive Library, March 1, 1999, cover price $25.36 | About this edition: Describes how various plants adapt to life in the desert, including the prickly pear cactus, sagebrush, and Indian blanket

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9780606272308 | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.81

Examines the variety of life found in the desert, including the Greek tortoise, desert scorpion, and jewel wasp (view table of contents)

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9780789429698 | Dk Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Examines the variety of life found in the desert, including the Greek tortoise, desert scorpion, and jewel wasp

Describes how desert plants adapt to their environment with its extreme temperatures, occasional downpour, almost constant drought, unrelenting sun, and shifting sands
By Andreu Llamas and Luis Rizo (illustrator)

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9780791034729 | Chelsea House Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes how desert plants adapt to their environment with its extreme temperatures, occasional downpour, almost constant drought, unrelenting sun, and shifting sands

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Product Description: This book answers questions young people ages 8-12 commonly ask about the distinctive plants and animals of the American Southwest deserts. Features illustrations by Brian Wignall and photos by top Southwest nature photographers.

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9781877856327 | Western Natl Parks Assoc, September 1, 1994, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This book answers questions young people ages 8-12 commonly ask about the distinctive plants and animals of the American Southwest deserts.

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A study of deserts, their climate, and the plants and animals that struggle to survive in this harsh environment

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9780875184906 | Dillon Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A study of deserts, their climate, and the plants and animals that struggle to survive in this harsh environment

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Describes the different types of deserts found throughout the world, discussing climate, plant and animal life, and the influence of humans

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9780894901829 | Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the different types of deserts found throughout the world, discussing climate, plant and animal life, and the influence of humans

An examination of the plants that grow in the desert, and of the specialized methods of water economy, photosynthesis, and reproduction that allow them to survive

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9780816024216 | Facts on File, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An examination of the plants that grow in the desert, and of the specialized methods of water economy, photosynthesis, and reproduction that allow them to survive
9780788163449 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Explores the way in which some plants, & the animals that depend on them, have developed to survive in desert conditions.

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Introduces the numbers one through twenty in rhymed text and illustrations describing various plants and animals of the desert.

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9780943173351 | 2 edition (Harbinger House, August 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Introduces the numbers one through twenty in rhymed text and illustrations describing various plants and animals of the desert.
9780943173399 | 2 edition (Roberts Rinehart Pub, December 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Introduces the numbers one through twenty in rhymed text and illustrations describing various plants and animals of the desert.
9780943173016 | Harbinger House, June 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Features desert scenes illustrating the numbers from one to twenty

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Explains how cactus plants survive in the desert where there is very little water.

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9780690013368 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1979, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: A discussion of a variety of cactus plants includes an examination of their similarities with other plant life and their adaptability to the desert environment

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