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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Three years of shooting were needed by five teams in order to follow bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to another, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.
2) Migration
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and simple text explain how and why animals migrate, and identify some of the animals that migrate.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In East Africa, the Serengeti comes alive when wildebeests journey across treacherous terrain to find the best grazing locations. Every year, approximately 1.5 million wildebeests migrate over 1,800 miles or nearly 3,000 kilometers searching for rain ripened grass. Prior to their journey toward Kenya, they graze on the grasses of the Serengeti in Tanzania before the rainy season comes. As they search for food and water, they endure crocodile-filled...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances-from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of bird migration-the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, to go weeks without sleep, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch-has exploded. Scientists have made astounding discoveries: certain species, such as thrushes, can avoid dehydration...
14) Elephants
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces African elephants, including what they eat, how they travel in groups, their migration patterns, and how they care for their young.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a year in the life of rufa red knot B95, also called Moonbird, following him through his migration pattern and discussing the environmental problems that caused the rufa population to collapsed by nearly eighty percent.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Littlefoot has a vivid dream in which he imagines travelling to a place where there are many of his kind, and when he tells the story to his grandparents, they take it as a sign to set out and find this mysterious place. After days of travel they do indeed discover a new world where longneck dinosaurs are plentiful, including one they never expected to see -- Bron, Littlefoot's father, who went missing before he was born. While Littlefoot is thrilled...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.
19) Galapagos George
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
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