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It happened in America: true stories from the fifty states
Par Lila Perl. 1992
Beginning with the Alabama bus boycott sparked by Rosa Parks and continuing state-by-state in alphabetical order, the author presents a…
selection of fifty true accounts from American history. A history that she describes as "crammed with tales of quiet courage and dashing bravado, feats of accomplishment, and magnificent failures." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe World in 1492
Par Jean Fritz. 1992
An introduction to the history, accomplishments, customs, and beliefs of people living in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and the…
Americas at the time Columbus discovered the new world. Includes accounts of African doctors who routinely removed cataracts from the human eye and of an Italian artist and inventor who sketched his idea for a flying machine. For grades 5-8 and older readersAnimals who have won our hearts
Par Jean George. 1994
Ten true tales of intelligent and brave animals. Blind Tom was a horse who helped build the transcontinental railroad in…
the 1860s. Half-wolf, half-malamute sled dog Balto delivered antitoxin to stop diphtheria in Alaska in 1925. Gorilla Koko learned sign language and communicates with humans. Since 1871, Pennsylvanians have been naming groundhogs Punxsutawney Phil and relying on them to predict the coming of spring. For grades 3-6Turn of the century: our nation one hundred years ago
Par Nancy Levinson. 1994
On New Year's Eve 1899, America celebrated not only a new year, but a new century. Levinson looks at the…
country as it was in 1900 and then shows ways in which people's lives began to change. Topics include the growth in the use of the railroad, automobile, and telephone and the evolution of large cities as America turned from an agricultural country into an urban one. For grades 4-7 and older readersA pioneer sampler: the daily life of a pioneer family in 1840
Par Barbara Greenwood. 1994
A year in the life of a fictional family, the Robertsons, shows how pioneers spent their days in the 1840s.…
Explains how to make maple sugar, what school was like, how the land was cleared and farmed, and much more. Provides projects to give modern-day children a chance to do things the way their ancestors did. For grades 3-6What does the crow know?: the mysteries of animal intelligence
Par Margery Facklam. 1994
Alex the African grey parrot can say what is the same and what is different about a blue bead and…
a blue key. Ruby the elephant paints a picture of the fire truck that comes to her zoo. Malia the dolphin makes up amazing tricks each day to get more treats. These are examples of how animals think, remember, and learn. For grades 3-6The cats of Thistle Hill: a mostly peaceable kingdom
Par Roger Caras. 1994
Believing that part of owning land is sustaining life, Caras, head of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty…
to Animals and author of many books on animals, keeps thirty or so pets on his Maryland "farm." His first rule for peace is to spay and neuter. A steer, a llama, a horse, a donkey, and a few dogs are outnumbered by the cats whose experiences shape this description of life on Thistle Hill farmBats: mysterious flyers of the night
Par Dee Stuart. 1994
The shy, gentle bat is one of the most misunderstood creatures. Bats are more helpful than harmful, eating tons of…
insect pests each night. Others pollinate plants while eating fruit and nectar. Only the vampire bat drinks blood, by making small cuts in other animals. Bats feed at night, using their ears to "see." One kind of bat is as small as a jellybean. For grades 2-4 and older readersJames Herriot's cat stories
Par James Herriot. 1994
In Herriot's childhood his favorite animal was the cat, so he looked forward to studying cats in veterinary school. He…
was appalled to discover that anatomy books ignored cats, but during the fifty years that Herriot practiced veterinary medicine, he met many cats and learned a great deal about them. Here he offers ten stories about some of the cats who have come into his life, including Oscar, the socialite, and Alfred from the sweetshop. BestsellerA guide to guide dog schools
Par Edwin Eames. 1994
A resource for blind individuals considering partnership with guide dogs. Following an overview of considerations, including the costs and benefits…
of having a guide dog, the book lists seventeen training programs, describing each school in detailPredator!
Par Bruce Brooks. 1991
A predator is an animal or plant that kills animals for food. The author discusses various predators along the food…
chain including birds, tigers, crocodiles, spiders, hyenas, and snakes. He explains how they hunt (either by themselves or in groups) and how they kill the prey when they find it. Brooks also describes the methods preyed-upon animals have of staying alive. For grades 5-8Into Africa
Par Craig Packer. 1994
Minnesota professors Craig Packer and his wife, Anne, have long studied the lions of Africa and for over a decade…
have spent half of each year in the Serengeti. Here, Packer provides a journal of a seven-week 1991 trip he and three graduate students made to retrieve more data on the lions and to collaborate with Jane Goodall's primate study. His descriptions of this research are interspersed with reminiscences of past adventuresSister Shako and Kolo the goat: memories of my childhood in Turkey
Par Vedat Dalokay. 1994
An old man likes to recall his life as a boy in a small Turkish village where his father was…
a landlord. A woman called Sister Shako lived in their stable with her goats, six of her own and Kolo, who just appeared one day and soon became her favorite. The storyteller tells about Shako's way with animals, her superstitions, her generosity, her love of nature, and finally her death. For grades 5-8Animal minds
Par Donald Griffin. 1992
Scientist Griffin reviews three categories of what he considers to be "significant, although incomplete, evidence of conscious thinking by nonhuman…
animals." His examples demonstrate different animals' adaptations of behavior to problems, physiological brain signals that may mean conscious thinking, and possible conveyance of thoughts through communication behavior. What the animal is "saying" can then be determined by the recipient's responseD-Day, June 6, 1944: the climactic battle of World War II
Par Stephen Ambrose. 1994
From an interview with Supreme Commander General Eisenhower in 1964 through the recollections of hundreds of Allied and German veterans,…
a military historian reconstructs the most decisive day of World War II. Some strong language. BestsellerKeeping unusual animals as pets
Par Jef Hewitt. 1990
The unusual pets discussed by naturalist Hewitt are ectotherms (commonly referred to as "cold-blooded" species). Descriptions and care requirements are…
provided for invertebrates--crickets, scorpions, and praying mantises--and for caecilians, salamanders, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and turtles. Also included are tips on choosing an ectotherm and on finding a qualified veterinarianShadows of night: the hidden world of the little brown bat
Par Barbara Bash. 1993
Bats, who come out at night to hunt, are the only mammals that fly. There are nearly a thousand different…
kinds of bats. The author describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and habits of the little brown bat, one of the most common species in North America. For grades 3-6 and older readersParticularly cats-- and Rufus
Par Doris Lessing. 1991
Novelist Lessing describes the changing role cats have played in her life. As a child on a large Southern Rhodesian…
farm, Lessing's relationship with cats was cruelly efficient. Wild cats were shot; kittens were drowned. It was not until twenty-five years later that Lessing allowed cats to become companions. At first stilted (she called her initial felines Grey Cat and Black Cat), she seems a true convert by the time battle-worn Rufus enters her lifeThe moon of the gray wolves
Par Jean George. 1969
The leader of the Toklat River wolf pack--which included his mate, three adult helpers, and five pups--sniffed the subzero November…
air heavy with the scent of caribou. A herd 1,000 strong was approaching Toklat Pass in Alaska on their yearly migration. The gray wolves would strike down for food the sick, weak, or old, and the pups would have the major test of their first year of life. For grades 3-6 and older readersThe moon of the monarch butterflies
Par Jean George. 1993
The warm, moist weather and lengthening days of May that trigger the migration of birds in groups of uncountable numbers…
also cause a monarch butterfly's solitary migration. She leaves her winter home in Mexico and flies northeast, on her way to the place where she was born--a meadowland in Ontario, Canada. Along the way she mates and lays eggs that will hatch, repeating the life cycle. For grades 3-6 and older readers