Frank Carlson Library

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of jackals.

Describes the characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common and unusual bats, the only mammals that fly.

Learn about polar bears including details regarding their behavior, families, and environment.

Shows the duck as it grows up in its natural environment.

Explains how animals, birds, reptiles, and insects vary their markings and color to hide from their enemies and respond to their environment.

This book explores how growing a cabbage can fight poverty, how a few dollars can help ten families start their own businesses, and how running errands for a neighbor can help you learn to become a bike mechanic. It asks the question, "What if you could meet all your consumer needs while, at the same time, get to know your neighbors and protect the environment?"

Explores what would happen if bees became extinct, and how their extinction would effect not just bees' environment, but the world as a whole.

The freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be strong like a walrus, tough like a lemming, and sometimes hard to see like the polar bear. Their habitat is melting at an alarming rate. As the Arctic ice melts, polar bears are threatened with extinction, which could affect their environment in negative ways. Lily Williams explores how such a loss would affect other environments and animals...

Inky had been at the New Zealand aquarium since 2014 after being taken in by a fisherman who found him at sea. Inky had been getting used to his new environment, but the staff quickly figured out that he had to be kept amused or he would get bored. Then one night in 2016 Inky, about the size of a basketball, decided he'd had enough. He slithered eight feet across the floor and down a drainpipe more than 160 feet long to his home in the sea.

"Behold the power of women! These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies. Growing up in a crime-plagued, gang-infested neighborhood, Venus and Serena Williams were led to believe their environment was not a place where dreams could come true. It took a relentless determination,...