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21) Yosemite
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A young explorer's introduction to California's Yosemite National Park, covering its mountain landscape, plants, animals such as black bears, and activities such as rock climbing"--
22) Grand Canyon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A young explorer's introduction to Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, covering its desert and forest landscape, plants, animals such as California condors, and activities such as hiking"--
23) Weather
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Description
Discusses such elements of weather as clouds, wet air, frost, ice, wind, and air pressure. Includes some projects.
24) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
This title introduces readers to Marco Polo, the great explorer who was the first European to explore China. Polo's life story is examined, from his early travels with father Niccolo Polo and uncle Maffeo Polo to China to see Kublai Khan and visit Xanadu, to his marriage to Donata Badoer, to his travels in China in the Kublai Khan's service. Polo's book The Travels of Marc Polo is covered, as is its influence on other explorers such as Christopher...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Kids will explore our planet and far away galaxies with these interactive stories, games, and challenges filled with wonder and exploration. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad; Interact with maps; Master math skills; Learn fun facts about different places."--
28) Planet earth
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Series
Description
An illustrated guide to the planet Earth, introducing scientific concepts with color-coded buttons that share facts about life, science, the environment, and people, and describing Earth's position in space, a volcanic eruption, Earth's different layers, mountains, rain forests, biomes, and other related topics.
32) Busy beavers
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Series
Description
Photographs and text introduce the physical characteristics and habits of the beaver.
33) Nature ranger
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Series
Description
Presents general information about nature and includes more than thirty activities to help study and observe plants and animals, including making casts of footprints, growing a bean plant in a box, and making bark rubbings.
35) Ocean explorer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
This book invites the reader to join a research ship and study the plants and animals of the world's oceans.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Jasmine Jackson has a great imagination, but when her friend Matt tells their group of friends that he has a VR headset that can send him into the world of Minecraft, she finds it a little hard to believe. When Jaz tries the headset out for herself, she learns the truth, but then a creeper comes along and does what creepers do! She'll need to rebuild her shelter and maybe improve on it before she can find her way home. Young Minecraft fans will enjoy...
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Description
In 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to the Ottoman Empire to report on the revolts breaking out as an indirect result of the savage European conflict. While in Jerusalem, he met and struck up a friendship with the infamous young British captain, T.E. Lawrence. Based on his travels and interviews with Lawrence, Thomas wrote the now classic With Lawrence in Arabia, the book...
40) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This book discusses the life of the Venetian explorer and the book based on his thirteenth-century travels along the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan in China.