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Rocky Mountains Research Journal

Natalie Hyde (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427119315

Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Rocky Mountains ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the mountains that stretch down along the west coasts of Canada and the United States. Simple graphs show how much the mountain range has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Galapagos Islands Research Journal

Natalie Hyde (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120656

Follow along as a fictional researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Galapagos Islands ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit this unique group of islands. Simple graphs show facts about the islands, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve them.

Atacama Desert Research Journal

Sonya Newland (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120670

Follow along as a fictional researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through Chile's Atacama desert ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the stony desert. Simple graphs show facts about the desert, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Great Lakes Research Journal

Ellen Rodger (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120625

Follow along as a fictional researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through North America's Great Lakes ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the world's largest group of freshwater lakes. Simple graphs show facts about the lakes, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve them.

Grassland Biomes

Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120052

This engaging book gives readers core information about grassland biomes on prairies, steppes, pampas, and savannahs. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life on open grassland, who lives in these environments, and how humans impact life there.

Mississippi River Research Journal

Ellen Rodger (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120632

Follow along as a fictional researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip down the Mississippi River ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit one of the world's major river systems. Simple graphs show facts about the river, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Amazon Rainforest Research Journal

Natalie Hyde (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427119278

Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Amazon rain forest ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit the world's largest tropical rain forest stretching across eight countries in South America. Simple graphs show how much the rain forest has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Marine Biomes

Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120069

This fascinating book gives readers core information about marine biomes on coasts, in coral reefs, frozen oceans, and in the deepest depths of the ocean. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life underwater, who lives in these environments, and how humans impact life there.

Bamboo Forest Research Journal

Heather C. Hudak (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120663

Follow along as a fictional researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Shunan Bamboo Forest ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit China's oldest bamboo forest. Simple graphs show facts about the forest, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Sonoran Desert Research Journal

Robin Johnson (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427119322

Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals, plants, and people that inhabit this hot desert that straddles the United States and Mexico. Simple graphs show how much the desert has changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Tundra Biomes

Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120076

This engaging book gives readers core information about alpine and arctic tundra biomes. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life in these mostly bare environments, who lives in these places, and how humans impact life there.

Everglades Research Journal

Robin Johnson (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427119292

Follow along as a researcher observes and makes journal entries about their field trip through the everglades ecosystem in Florida. Outstanding photographs highlight the animals and plants that inhabit this unique wetland area. Simple graphs show how much the everglades have changed, and the final report describes efforts being made to preserve it.

Desert Biomes

Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120021

This beautiful book gives readers core information about subtropical, polar, coastal, and rain shadow desert biomes. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to lack of rain, who lives in these deserts, and how humans impact life there.

Forest Biomes

Louise Spilsbury, Richard Spilsbury (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427120038

This gorgeous book gives readers core information about forests in the taiga, tropical and temperate rainforests, and deciduous forest biomes. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life among the trees, who lives in these forests, and how humans impact life there.

A Savanna Habitat

Rebecca Sjonger, Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165091

The grasslands of Africa are home to some of the most interesting plants and animals in the world. A Savanna Habitat uses beautiful photographs, detailed illustrations, and clear language to teach young readers all about this amazing habitat. This book teaches children about the small and huge animals that graze on the grasses, the carnivores found in the savanna and how they hunt, and how animals find food, water, and shelter on the savanna.

How are plants helpful?

Kelley MacAulay (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427193704

From providing the oxygen we breathe to supplying nutritious foods, this engaging title examines some of the many ways plants are essential to all living things. In addition to encouraging an appreciation for the natural world, readers will learn some personal choices they can make to help protect plants and their habitats.

Rainforest Food Chains

Bobbie Kalman, Molly Aloian (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427164162

Featuring stunning photographs, beautiful illustrations, and detailed text, Rainforest Food Chains examines the delicate balance of life maintained in lush Southeast Asian tropical rain forests. Children will learn how the plants and animals in a rain forest rely on one another to survive. Highlights include rainforest photosynthesis, how rainforest plants and animals have adapted to survive, and the dangers to rain forests and their inhabitants.

The Arctic Habitat

Bobbie Kalman, Molly Aloian (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165145

An Arctic Habitat provides children with an introduction to this cold, vast region. Easy-to-read text and colorful photographs help children learn about this unique habitat and how the plants and animals have adapted to the harsh environment. Young readers will learn about the characteristics of both land and water habitats in the Arctic, the plants and animals that live in the Arctic, and how animals find food and shelter in the Arctic.

Natural Disasters: Moving Earth

David West, Steve Parker (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427197627

The natural forces of planet Earth have been responsible for some of the world's greatest devastation, such as the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan in 2011 and the Indian Ocean in 2004. Thirteen kinds of disasters are featured in this amazing book, showing the process and science of each disaster from the action that triggered it to its dire consequences. Topics include volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, and mudslides.

How do we know it is summer?

Molly Aloian (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427192103

Summer is the warmest season with the most hours of daylight. Readers will learn these and other sunsational facts about summer! Detailed, full-color photographs and engaging text-dependent questions will captivate the interest of young readers.

Ear-Splitting Sounds and Other Vile Noises

Anna Claybourne (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427191724

They say that in space no one can hear you scream... and its true! In the emptiness of space, nothing makes a noise. But on Earth... our ears are constantly pounded by sounds. Learn all about the most disgusting and dreadful aspects of sound. From flatulent whoopee cushions to glass-smashing opera singers and music-loving pigs, this book is full of yucky, painful and fascinating facts. You can get your ears tuned into some easy (and painless!) experiments, too.

The Life Cycle of a Koala

Heather Levigne, Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165596

A koala lives most of its life alone, eating and sleeping high up in the eucalyptus trees of Australia, and yet it is recognized and loved around the world. The Life Cycle of a Koala looks at the life of this ancient marsupial and explains how marsupials are different from other mammals, the birth of the koala and its life in its mothers pouch, the growing koala and how it feeds, life outside the pouch but close to mother, and the dangers faced by koalas.

The ABCs of Plants

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427197825

Children will love learning about plants and plant parts. Beautiful photographs and artwork in this spectacular ABC book help teach children to identify various plants and find similar examples in their own communities.

What is an Elephant?

Bobbie Kalman, John Crossingham (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789956

As the world's largest land animals, elephants inspire awe in all of us - an awe that has led to myths of might and memory. Despite its immense strength, however, the elephant is a timid creature that uses its power only to defend itself against predators. Kids will learn many facts about these gentle pachyderms, including the social structure of elephants, in which the female is the leader, the animal's many dexterous uses for its trunk, the history of the elephant's even larger ancestors, including woolly mammoths, and the dangers that poaching, loss of habitat, and the ivory trade pose to the elephants future.

Rain Forests Inside Out

Robin Johnson (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427176431

Lush, moist, and teeming with life, rain forests are one of Earth's biome wonders. Peel back the corners of the rain forest to discover what lives within one of the planets busiest environments, from wolves and porcupines to monkeys and poison dart frogs. Learn how each organism functions within its rain forest ecosystem and how it survives in one of the most predatory biomes on Earth. Find out, too, how rain forests are found all around the world and what you can do to help protect these precious resources.