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1) Deserts
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1996.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the characteristics of deserts and the plants and animals that inhabit them.
Author
Publisher
Rio Chico
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The living desert tells about its quiet beauty, the plants and animals that it sustains, people who have sought water in its vast expanse, and how it continues to change. Includes facts about the Sonoran Desert.
6) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the plants and animals that live and survive in the harsh environment of the North American deserts and explains how humans can preserve desert habitats.
11) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
North American edition., U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the characteristics of different types deserts around the world, the plants and animals that inhabit them, and the various issues that will affect the future of these areas.
12) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
13) Desert
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Hare is an Easterner who has come west for his health. In Salt Lake City he is mistaken by Dene's outlaw gang for a spy and must flee the town to escape them. He is found suffering from exhaustion and exposure in rough country by the wealthy Mormon rancher August Naab. As he is nursed back to health at Naab's ranch, Hare becomes aware that Naab's holdings are being threatened by both Dene's rustlers and an unscrupulous Gentile land-grabber named...
15) The desert ark
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet in the Algerian desert. Amin and Myriam are secretly in love. Their families are rivals and when their relationship is discovered, conflict is inevitable. In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves, the two communities have long nurtured the seeds of discord and hatred. The persecution is the first signal of inevitable evil.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
18) Erak's ransom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
19) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant.
The new paperback of the bestselling thriller from Dean Koontz, one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times. In Odd Thomas he has created a character whose unique voice will live for generations to come. Odd Thomas takes pride in his work as a fry cook. His fame has spread,...
20) Waking fire
Author
Series
Waking fire volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her peaceful village of Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do the bidding of the power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters, Naira Khoum forms a resistance to stop the Mistress before Lagusa is beyond saving.
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