Washoe County Library System

Introduces glaciers, including how they were formed, how they move, and their importance to the geography and ecology of the world, and discusses ways that we can reduce the deterioration of the glaciers before it is too late.

What was it like to live in the Ice Age and why was the world so cold? Who made the first cave paintings? What ever happened to sabertooth cats and wooly mammoths? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Sabertooths and the Ice Age, Jack and Annie's guide to unlocking the mysteries of the Ice Age! This is the nonfiction companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth. A great place to begin research for a report....

"A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice--its secret history and dire future. Tedesco unearths its secrets--from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperature in cryoconite holes--and weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, epic tales of Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations"--...

Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, pershaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. For Count Hamnet and his companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew.

Looks at how glacial erosion caused by climate change is changing the society of southeastern Iceland, recounting the important place these ice sheets occupy in the culture of the region.

Geronimo Stilton's ancestor, Geronimo Stiltonoot, investigates a witness's claim of a moving mountain of ice.

"A glacier may look forbidding and empty, but it provides a rich habitat for animals from the mountains to the sea. As the world's glaciers melt, their disappearance impacts not only the wildlife that calls them home, but also all life on earth. Back matter includes a glossary and an author's note about climate change"-- "This environmental picture book introduces young science and nature lovers to the wonders of glaciers, the wildlife that call...

"A girl grows up visiting Sn�fellsj�okull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"-- "Award-winning author Jordan Scott's luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that's always there to listen. Angela listened to the glacier; the glacier listened to Angela. As soon as she's born, Angela's father introduces her to her glacier....