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Book blurb: Ocean Friends Series by Tam Warner Minton

An amazing visual collection of the colorful, curious, and varied tropical reef fish that calls oceans its home. Look closer into this excellent photographic guide to find all types of tropical reef fish. From cleaner friend butterflyfish and angelfish to…
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Ocean Friends (2 book series) by Tam Warner Minton

Fun and informative…  A winning collection. In her visually arresting series about tropical reef fish, Minton pairs striking, colorful pictures with information about the characteristics, habits, and diversity of these ocean vertebrates. In the first book in the series, Minton…
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Why Inch Got a Foot (6 of 1/Half Doz of the Other Series: Book 2) by Ron Roecker

A quirky, clever tale… Endearing from the first page, the award-winning Roecker’s second installment in the series takes readers to an adventurous journey with a tiny inch worm. The adorable Inch, the inch worm, is too inquisitive for her family…
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Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem by Kate Messner

  Informative and intriguing… Messner’s brilliant field guide takes readers on a fascinating journey as scientists track an invasive python species in South Florida. A team from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida sets on a tracking expedition to capture the…
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Little Cloud: The Science of a Hurricane by Johanna Wagstaffe, ills. Julie McLaughlin

  A must read for young readers… Wagstaffe, a qualified meteorologist, takes readers on an educational journey as she recounts the growth of a hurricane throughout its various stages. The Little Cloud, starts its journey as a tiny puffy cloud…
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Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles by Mark Kurlansky

  A superb classroom resource… In his latest, Kurlansky takes the reader through the history of different species of bees, butterflies, and beetles and discusses immense decline in their population in recent years. Divided into five parts, the book covers…
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Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives) by Danielle Jawando

  Informative, well-crafted… Jawando brings African-American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s biography as the second book in Little Guides to Great Lives series: small guides introducing children to the most inspiring figures from history in a…
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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes

  Intriguing and informative… Fawkes’s exciting biography of Charlotte Brontë takes readers on Brontë’s journey of becoming a writer as she explores Bronte’s loss ridden childhood and difficult youth — from co-authoring the dramatic saga of a fantasyland, Glass Town,…
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Willoughby’s World of Wonder by Stephen Barnwell

Buy now A gem of a book meant for readers’ keeper shelf… Award-winning author Stephen Barnwell brings forth a fictional reproduction of the famous 1882s Field Guide to Strange Beasts & Curious Creatures and lists 136 strange beasts and curious…