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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner; however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Austin Finch, his younger brother Ethan, sons of the park ranger, are determined to protect all the creatures of Bog Hollow State Park, even the Turkey vultures, from the Manley twins and their father who would like to turn Bog Hollow into a golf course--and they find an ally in the new girl Nellie Tibbits, whose mother has come to southern Georgia to study snakes.
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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In Georgia the Bog Hollow State Park Junior Bass Fishing Tournament is only a week away, but most of the bass seem to have disappeared from Bog Hollow, and brothers Austin and Ethan Finch and their friends are determined to find out if it is a case of pollution, an invasion of mudfish--or something more sinister.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.
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The streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans-in these waters, I was shaped. My name is Andrew. I grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, exploring the waterways of my youth. It wasn't until survival and combat swim training in the United States Air Force that I found God in the water. As I got older, my adventures and experiences with water continued to teach me the power water has to support life and shape the world. Now, I am a father. Just as water has...
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"Water: The Elixir of Life" is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding the importance of water in our lives and in the future of our planet. The author challenges us to rethink our attitudes towards water and to take concrete action to preserve this vital resource. This book is a call to awareness, collaboration and action to ensure that water continues to flow as the elixir of life for present and future generations.
8) Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of Southwest
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"Andersson...was the most important African explorer after Livingstone...fascinating books on travel...in 1853 he was the first white man to make his way to the great newly discovered Lake Ngami...through barren tribe-infested wastes of Damaraland." -Daily Telegraph, Oct. 6, 1936
"Lake Ngami...is a book of great interest...containing narratives of exciting adventures with wild animals and of hair-breadth escapes experienced by the author while in...
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Fighting for Ecological Heritage
In 1992, a Hawaiian developer proposed a subdivision on Cougar Bay's northern shore, just two miles south of Coeur d'Alene. Dedicated, tenacious locals took on the seemingly impossible goal of stopping the "Cougar Beach" development. Unlikely allies--environmental activists and a cantankerous landowner--banded together. Private and public groups stepped up. In 1997, The Nature Conservancy purchased major shoreline...
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A portrait of these Scottish wetlands: "Fascinating…makes you yearn for a sip of golden whisky whose barley malt has been smoked over a rich, peaty fire." -Daily Mail
The peatlands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides are half land, half water. Their surface is a glorious tweed woven from tiny, living sphagnums rich in wildlife, but underneath are layer upon layer of dead mosses transforming into the peat. One can, with care, walk out onto them, but...
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