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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Defines marshes and swamps, discusses how conditions in them may change, and examines the life found in and around them.
2) Alien Alby
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alby and his pet, Squee, know that they are not allowed to play in the alien swamp, but they still cannot resist splashing around and getting into trouble.
Author
Series
Tony Boudreaux mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an examination of the papyrus plant, looking at the important role it played in ancient Egyptian culture as a source of paper, as well as its unique properties that could help combat ecological and social problems in the modern world.
Author
Publisher
Little Lit Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stinky, a monster who lives in a swamp, gets upset when a boy named Nick starts hanging around his swamp, and so he tries to scare Nick away.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 26
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the swamp police hold a contest, they expect to have a fun day-- one without trouble. Too bad no one told the crooks! Now three thieves have stolen the prize money and are trying to flee. Who will win the contest, and will the crooks get away with their crime?"--Page 4 of cover.
12) Spineless
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals...
13) Beware the wild
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.
Author
Series
Challenge Island STEAM adventures volume 2
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After finding themselves mysteriously transported to a magical island, this time in a rainforest swamp, Daniel, Joy, and Kimani must figure out how to safely traverse across the island with their knowledge of friction and pulleys.
16) Pond Life
Author
Language
English
Description
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This guide describes and illustrates, in full color, the plants and animals that live in or near ponds, lakes, streams, and wetlands. It includes surface-dwelling creatures as well as those of open water, the bottom, and the shore and tells how various animals and plants live together in a community.
Plus suggestions for:
Where and when to look
Observing and collecting specimens
Making exciting discoveries...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Relato corto para ser contado a niños pequeños acerca de una Laguna Encantada que estaba en peligro de desaparecer debido a la voracidad humana que le había contaminado sus aguas y le dejaba pasar cada vez menos caudal por su rio alimentador.Debido al bello espíritu que le habitaba, esta laguna sagrada transmitía con su presencia cualidades de curación anímica y espiritual a todos cuantos vivían cerca de ella, plantas, animales y humanos incluidos.Para...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the 1960s, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into the lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrofication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, depleting oxygen, damaging fish stocks, and transforming...
Author
Language
English
Description
You will enjoy reading this book whether you are curious about lakes or have already feasted on lake living. If you want to know more about how spending time around lakes provides an escape from the hustle and bustle and busyness of life, or a enchanting destination during a slow or ho-hum season of your life, read on!
Our planet is brimming with inland lakes that dot the landscape everywhere. There are an estimated 117 million of them spread throughout...
Author
Language
English
Description
Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations.
The study of life in British lakes and rivers has been traditionally neglected in natural history publications, and yet the intricacies of plant and animal ecology as a whole can be readily studied in a pond or lake. Not since Macan and Worthington's...
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