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Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What animals sting, poison, roll away or vomit to defend themselves? Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the amazing ways animals defend themselves from predators - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Animal Defenses is a beautifully designed reader all about animal defenses, from camouflage to claws, poisons to...
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
Series
Publisher
Capstone Raintree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Each book in the Adapted to Survive series looks at a selection of high-interest animals that share a common skill, examining how each animal has adapted to survive in its own particular environment. This book looks at animals that dig, and includes chapters on moles, prairie dogs, wombats, polar bears, armadillos, and more!"--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Cusick explores how gravity-defying flight, coiled and tubelike tongues, bite-proof armor and other surprising adaptations in animal bodies and behavior provide a competitive edge. This presentation of amazing animal facts is loosely organized into three sections: defense, foraging and anatomy. There's a short introduction for each section followed by a series of boxed explanations interspersed among a gallery of close-up photographs, mostly from...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins is back with more Extreme Animals, perfect for young readers looking for accessible nonfiction chock full of incredible art. Stinkiest! will focus on the smelliest members of the animal kingdom. Through illustrations, infographics, facts, and figures, readers will see how big each animal is compared to humans, where it lives on the globe, and just how putrid it can be! With his signature art style, Steve Jenkins'...
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