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21) The Danger Box
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
22) Charles Darwin
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection.
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Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
A brief biography of English naturalist responsible for the advancement of the science of evolution.
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin's birth (February 12, 1809), this thoroughly illustrated, yet concise biography reveals the great scientist as husband, father, and friend.
Tim M. Berra tells the fascinating story of the man and the idea that changed everything. Berra discusses Darwin's revolutionary scientific work, its impact on modern-day...
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[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Charles Darwin. Readers will learn about Darwin's early life, personal life, and all about his contributions to science, natural selection, evolution, and common descent. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Charles Darwin always knew there was something special about worms. But what exactly was it? Follow him in his experiments as he discovers the answer is a spectacular pile of poop! This is the ... story of how Charles Darwin came to discover that the humble earthworm is the most important species on our planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth."--Back cover.
30) Charles Darwin
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In 1831, at the age of twenty-two, Charles Darwin embarked on a momentous five-year-long voyage on the HMS Beagle. His observations during this voyage led Darwin to eventually conclude that all species of plant and animal life have slowly evolved over thousands of years, adapting themselves to their environment by a process of natural selection. This book tells the story of Darwin's life, detailing the findings and events that led him to develop...
31) Darwin
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
A biography of naturalist Charles Darwin with emphasis on the decades of struggle after he published his historic theory.
32) Charles Darwin
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Explores the life and career of the man who was the first to develop a workable explanation for how evolution takes place--natural selection.
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Darwins revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle for historian Paul Johnson. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose for which Johnson is so well regarded, Darwin brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwins birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman...
37) Darwin
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A picture book biography which reveals the assembling of Darwin's most profound idea: the survival of the fittest.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"In 1830 a Yamana Indian Boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of...
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