Robin Page
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English
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A lyrical, haunting debut that explores the power of parenthood, identity, lust, and the legacy of trauma, as the lives of two neighbors are upended by ghosts from their past lives.
When the news of her mother's death reaches Jocelyn Morrow, it stirs up memories of her traumatic childhood. She is a mother herself now, to six-year-old Lucy; living a life of privilege in Southern California with her husband Conrad; moving in a world of wealthy white...
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English
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Hatching a plan for survival isn't always easy in the wild. And how animals lay, protect, and even use each other's eggs as a food source help reveal the life cycle of the natural world. Eggs come in all shapes and sizes. The ostrich's is the largest, but some are so small, you need a microscope to spot them. Animals hide them and disguise them in smart and surprising ways, too. Some abandon their eggs, while others protect them fiercely and carry...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page reveal the skills animals use to survive in the wild in an imaginative and humorous how-to format. With step-by-step instructions, readers learn about specific behaviors; how to catch thousands of fish like a humpback whale or how to sew up a nest like a tailorbird. This fascinating and fun illustrated nonfiction melds science, art, biology, and the environment...
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English
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A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Caldecott Honor-winning team Jenkins and Page show how animals roll, fly, walk, leap, climb,...
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The latest offering from the award-winning team of Robin Page and Steve Jenkins focuses on the most unique and exciting animal displays in the natural world, used by creatures to stand out. This eye-catching, high-interest material is ideal for nature lovers, Jenkins fans, and even the most reluctant readers.
Have you ever noticed that certain creatures have fur, feathers, and features designed to catch your eye?
Chock-full of the fascinating facts...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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I have two big yellow eyes, soft, silky feathers, eight sharp claws, and an unlucky mouse in my pointy black beak. Who am I?
Who Am I? gives reader clues so they can guess which animal will be revealed in a beautiful, full-spread illustration when they turn the page. Playful nouns, adjectives, and verbs describe the characteristics and movements of each animal. Minimal yet descriptive text encourages visual literacy and positions this title as a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Did you know you share your home with monsters?! In this book explore the menagerie of tiny and unusual creatures-arthropods (insects, mites, and spiders)-found in our lawns and gardens, our food, our beds, our clothes, and even our eyelashes.
You may not know it... but you share your home with monsters!
Some of these monsters are so tiny that they were barely recognized, even by scientists, until the invention of the electron microscope. Although...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Caldecott Honor—winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, color, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal.
Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features-what's not to love about frogs?
In this magnificently illustrated picture...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page comes an early introduction to one of young readers' favorite places: the zoo!
Going to the zoo is so exciting! You might see penguins swimming underwater, snakes sunning in the reptile house, or giraffes eating leaves out of high trees. You might even see people at the zoo, ones just like you! But what do those people do?
Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page introduce...
10) The Shark Book
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Caldecott Honor—winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore the astonishing lives of sharks in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for Shark Week and all year round, this ode to the notorious ocean predator with more than four hundred species will blow you out of the water!
Sharp teeth, super senses, and those infamous fins-what's not to love about sharks?
Caldecott Honor—winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore...
12) The beak book
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A non-fiction exploration of the different kinds of beaks birds have and what they use them for"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor.
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Packed with many cool facts and visuals on where certain animals live and what they eat, this book captures twenty-five humorous--and very true--explanations of why animals look the way they do in order to exist in this world."--Amazon.com.
15) The bird book
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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They can dance, sing, and, of course, fly--what's not to love about birds? With more than 10,000 species of dramatically different colors, shapes, and sizes, birds are some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet. The only animal with feathers, birds have soared through the skies for millions of years. In this beautiful picture book, learn what makes a bird a bird, what birds like to eat, and how these masters of the air have evolved. Ever...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
"The latest offering from the award-winning team of Robin Page and Steve Jenkins focuses on the most unique and exciting animal displays in the natural world, used by creatures to stand out. This eye-catching, high-interest material is ideal for nature lovers, Jenkins fans, and even the most reluctant readers."--
17) Time to sleep
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
It's time to sleep! Who dozes standing on one leg without falling over, snores while flying, or snuggles together in a big sleepy pile?
18) Seeds move!
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Every seed, big or small, needs sunlight, water, and an uncrowded place to put down roots. But how do seeds get to the perfect place to grow? This exploration of seed dispersal covers a wide range of seeds and the creatures that help them move, from a coconut seed floating on waves to an African grass seed rolled by a dung beetle, to a milkweed seed floating on the wind.
19) Move!
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
Learn about how different animals move.
20) Time to eat
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Provides an introduction to what animals eat and how they collect, store, and digest their food.