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Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the many clever, creative, and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predators. For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator’s menu. So they’ve had to come up with lots of cunning ways to avoid being eaten. From camouflage and color-changing, natural armor, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back, the range of survival tactics in the natural world...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the various types of defenses mechanisms used by animals, including the bone spikes of the African hairy frog, the deadly poison of the blue-spotted N. taracua termite, and the hammer-like punch of the peacock mantis shrimp.
11) Backyard insects
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Discusses common garden insects and their protective appearance which includes camouflage, warning colors, copycat characteristics, and scary characteristics.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Animal Weapons, Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he’s been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons—fish with mouths larger than their bodies and bugs whose heads are so packed with muscle they don’t have room for eyes. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages...
13) Tricky opossums
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and natural defenses of opossums.
14) Where is baby?
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the many ways babies hide to protect themselves, from human toddlers who peek out from beneath blankets, to fawns that blend in with dappled sunlight, to leopard cubs who scramble high in African trees. Backpages provide more information about each animal.
19) I am the walrus
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Eoin Colfer meets Rick Riordan-with a little Margaret Peterson Haddix sprinkled on top-in this hilarious new sci-fi series from award-winning authors Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman. When fourteen-year-old Noah falls from the trees on his classmate Sahara, he doesn't understand how, or why, he would have been up there. It's just one more in a string of strange things happening to Noah lately. Like when he keels over and every muscle in his body...
20) Animal armor
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Get to know scales, shells, and other kinds of amazing animal armor in this engaging Level 1 Reader from National Geographic Kids, now with more than 125 books from Pre-reader to Level 3 in the series. Packed with beautiful and engaging photos, kids will learn all about these fantastic creatures. Learn about animals with shells, scales, and spikes! This Reader is carefully leveled for an early independent reading or read aloud experience, perfect...
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