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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly describes a variety of animals, including lemurs, apes and monkeys, parrots, and elephants, which are endangered or already extinct as a result of man's destruction of their forest habitats or man's poaching and hunting.
7) Life: the first four billion years : the story of life from the big bang to the evolution of humans
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Before humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life that flourished in between. Covering ice ages and fossils, the first life in the sea and on land, the time of the dinosaurs, and the rise of mammals, Martin Jenkins navigates through millennia of prehistory...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Test your chops and discover if you have what it takes to survive at a time when Earth looked, well, a tad different in this ultimate survival guide to the prehistoric age. Find out how to make it through exploding volcanoes and mega monsoons--while dodging giant Permian bugs! See how to fend off an angry pterosaur and learn what to do if you're caught in a stampede of enormous titanosaurs. Discover what you could eat (spoiler alert: You better like...
11) Sabertooth cats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of sabertooth cats"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tigers are pretty special -- and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are in danger of disappearing altogether, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless other animals we will never see again.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the worldâs biggest and baddest creaturesâincluding the black rhino, the dodo, giant...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
16) The Time Paradox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When his fairy friends help him travel back in time to save the African lemur from extinction, teenaged Artemis Fowl must face his deadliest foe yet--his younger self.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 36
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In this 36th volume in the series, "the Thea Sisters are going to New Zealand. Their new friend Charlotte wants to show them the sights and introduce them to Didi, a skeleton of a bird that went extinct many years ago. But when they get to the mouseum, Didi has gone missing. Can they find the stolen skeleton before it is too late?"-- Provided by publisher.
19) How to bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.
Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"We share the planet with millions of plants and animals. Sometimes human behavior can harm them. This title introduces readers to the plants and animals that are now classified as threatened, endangered, and extinct. Readers will learn about the threats and dangers these species face or once faced and the consequences that follow. Important concepts such as conservation and protection are explored in this title, which will help readers understand...