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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let's save Earth together!
106) On Earth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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We are all passengers of the Earth as it spins, tilts and circles the sun. Learn about Earth's cycles of rotation and revolution, plus how they affect our lives through the days and seasons.
110) The Earth Book
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[2010]
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Simple text and illustrations show how children can help protect the Earth.
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[2019]
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Explores 250 wide-ranging milestones in the history of the planet Earth, including the birth of the moon, the oldest signs of life on Earth, the first mines, the invention of agriculture, women in earth science, reaching the South Pole, planet genetics, earthlike exoplanets, and rising CO₂ levels. Some of the key scientists and inventors from around the world who have shaped our modern understanding of planet Earth, such as Leonardo da Vinci and...
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Newly published in a fourth edition, this definitive guide takes the mystery out of appreciating, buying,and selling gemstones. It covers everything from the romance and history of more than 1,800 gemstones to their geographic locations; scientific, physical, and color properties; and the way they are formed, structured, and mined. The book also fully covers the optical features of gems--light and color, luminescence, refraction, and inclusions--...
114) Earth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Photographs and simple text describe the planet Earth, its place in the solar system, its size, moon, and habitation.
115) Blue planet
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Blue Planet (44 min.): View Earth from space. Orbiting 200 miles above Earth's surface, see familiar landforms: the majestic Himalayas, giant Namib desert sand dunes, jewel-like Caribbean islands. From this unique vantage point see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our planet, and how a powerful new force - mankind, has begun to alter the face of Earth.
The Dream is Alive (37 min.): "Share with space shuttle astronauts...
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Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows...
118) Earth
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Introductory text and full-color images explore the physical characteristics of the planet Earth. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
119) The invaders plan
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Volume 1 of a 10 volume series. Contents: V. 1 The invaders plan--v. 2 Black genesis--v. 3 The enemy within-v. 4 An alien affair--v. 5 Fortune of fear--v. 6 Death quest--v. 7 Voyage of vengeance--v. 8 Disaster--v. 9 Villainy victorious--v. 10 The doomed planet.
120) Earth dance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.