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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Description
Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming...
3) Wonderstruck
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Language
English
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Description
Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories -- Ben's told in words, Rose's...
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Series
Language
English
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Katie, her father, JoJo, and Pedro are on a special sleepover at the museum; but at night the dark halls are spooky, and it is easy to imagine that the dinosaurs are ghosts haunting the museum--and when Mr. Woo disappears the children become frightened.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The show offers a blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights, and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives...
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
Awaken all your senses with this exquisite exploration of North America's most breathtaking untamed wilderness. Free your imagination and let it truly soar as you experience our country's greatest natural treasures at their seasonal best.
Publisher
Miles Kelly Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Why are whales so big? Do monkeys change colour? How do my muscles work? First readers can find out the answers to hundreds of questions on science and nature topics in this fully illustrated book. Interactive panels give tips on further learning, simple quizzes help children recall what they have read. -- Cover.