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1) Whales
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"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to whales. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
2) Whales
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Long known as 'giants of the deep,' Earth's whales are much more than just big swimming mammals. Learn about various species' physical characteristics, eating habits, and even social structures in this fact-packed book. The World of Mammals reveals the fascinating physical and behavioral characteristics of a diverse sampling of animals and offers a detailed account of each animal's habitat and natural history. This series also teaches children the...
4) Orcas
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"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to orcas. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
6) Blue whales
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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the world's biggest animal, the blue whale.
8) Moby Dick
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Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other "meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that "dismasted" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a...
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"Learn all about orcas! Also called killer whales, these powerful predators swim through the pages of this carefully leveled text. Colorful photographs engage young readers. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction-learning skills and vocabulary"--
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"Swimming, singing and blowing bubbles--baby whale calves and young human children share so many of the same activities! This lyrical picture book compares the relationship of a young child and mother with that of a whale calf and its mother, showing how the lives of the whales can be so touchingly like our own. Patterned in a call-and-response format, where the mother observes and the child responds, the text begs to be read aloud. Safe at night...
11) Deep wizardry
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During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
12) Whale snow
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At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about Inupiats and the bowhead whale.
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"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
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