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  Fire Escape - How Animals and...

  Jessica Stremer

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  A captivating overview of the clever ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature. 
   
  Goats and beavers. Drones and parachutes. Pinecones and beetles. What do they have in common? Believe it or not, they are all crucial tools in fighting, preventing, and adapting to wildfires! 
   
  These vicious fires are spreading faster and burning hotter than at any other time in history. Ongoing droughts, warming weather, and a history of poor forest management have extended the traditional wildfire season beyond the summer months. It is a matter of life and death for wildlife worldwide. 
   
  This breathtaking nonfiction book by an award-winning team focuses on unique angles to a hot topic, including injury rehabilitation efforts, species that use wildfires to their advantage, how to help area repopulation, and the animals that help prevent/fight wildfires. 
   
  Books for a Better Earth are designed to inspire children to become active, knowledgeable participants in caring for the planet they live on. 
   
  A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 
  An NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book 
  An ALA Sustainability Round Table Top 10 Selection 
  Named to the Missouri Dogwood Reading List

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  Ben The Boy From Nowhere

  Ian E Hart

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  What if there was a 3D printer that could copy a living human being? Tom Chan’s father is building one in his laboratory at Coolabah City University. When 13-year-old Tom and his neighbour Bethany ‘Biff’ Potts take shelter the lab during a thunderstorm and accidentally print a copy of Tom: a doppelgänger with no memories and no personality,they try to pass him/it off, as ‘Ben,’ Tom’s long-lost twin from China. But there are dark forces who want to clone humans for sinister reasons and they kidnap Ben in order to perfect their own human Replicator. Rescuing Ben leads Biff, Tom and their friends on a wild pursuit through the labyrinth of WW2 tunnels beneath Coolabah City, unearthing political machinations and grotesque secrets kept hidden for 70 years. But Ben also has a secret… A masterful novel that explores the powerful bonds of teenage friendship and what it means to be human.

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  Viper's Nest The (The 39 Clues...

  Peter Lerangis

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  The most dangerous secret in Amy and Dan's past is unveiled in Book 7 of the #1 New York Times bestselling series.The hunt for 39 hidden Clues that lead to an unimaginable power have taken a heavy toll on fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan. They've just seen a woman die. They're wanted by the Indonesian police. They're trapped on an island with a man who knows too much about the death of their parents. And a tropical storm is rolling in. Just when they think it can't get any worse, it does. Because the Cahills have one more rattling skeleton for Amy and Dan to discover . . . the terrible truth about their family branch.

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  King of the Hill - Alone Above a...

  James Blish

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  High above Earth, Colonel Hal Gascoigne commands Satellite Vehicle One, a one-man orbital station carrying catastrophic authority. When voices begin speaking to him—voices that should not exist—Gascoigne is confronted with orders that defy logic, protocol, and sanity itself. The isolation of space becomes a pressure chamber as fragments of routine turn unreliable and the line between perception and reality erodes. 
  James Blish constructs a tense psychological standoff where the greatest threat is not enemy weapons, but the human mind under unbearable responsibility. As Civilian Intelligence Group races to intervene, King of the Hill explores guilt, authority, and the terrifying consequences of unquestioned obedience. The story unfolds with deliberate intensity, forcing the listener to confront how close absolute control can drift toward catastrophe. 
  James Blish was one of the most intellectually rigorous voices of mid-20th-century science fiction. Best known for A Case of Conscience, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1959, Blish frequently examined the ethical and philosophical dimensions of advanced technology and power. His work often placed human psychology at the center of cosmic stakes. 
  In addition to his acclaimed novels, Blish contributed influential short fiction that questioned military doctrine, political decision-making, and moral certainty. King of the Hill exemplifies his ability to fuse high-concept science fiction with deeply human tension, making him a lasting pillar of classic science fiction literature.

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  Night of the Living Dummy 3...

  R.L. Stine

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  Goosebumps now on Disney+!Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. He calls it his Dummy Museum. There's a dummy with freckles. And one with a sneer just like Rocky. Trina and her brother, Dan, think the dummies are pretty cool.But now there are voices in the attic. And dummies keep showing up in the strangest places.No way those dummies could be alive...right?

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 206 thru 210 -...

  Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury,...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 206 thru 210 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Colour Out of Space by H. P. LovecraftBirkett’s Twelfth Corpse by August DerlethCastaway by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Veldt by Ray BradburyThe Small Bears by Gene L. Henderson

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