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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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  King of the Hill

  James Blish

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  King of the Hill by James Blish - A madman can be prevented from bomb-throwing—but a mad world? 
  It did Col. Hal Gascoigne no good whatsoever to know that he was the only man aboard Satellite Vehicle 1. No good at all. He had stopped reminding himself of the fact some time back. 
  And now, as he sat sweating in the perfectly balanced air in front of the bombardier board, one of the men spoke to him again: 
  "Colonel, sir—" 
  Gascoigne swung around in the seat, and the sergeant—Gascoigne could almost remember the man's name—threw him a snappy Air Force salute. 
  "Well?" 
  "Bomb one is primed, sir. Your orders?" 
  "My orders?" Gascoigne said wonderingly. But the man was already gone. Gascoigne couldn't actually see the sergeant leave the control cabin, but he was no longer in it. 
  While he tried to remember, another voice rang in the cabin, as flat and razzy as all voices sound on an intercom. 
  "Radar room. On target." 
  A regular, meaningless peeping. The timing circuit had cut in. 
  Or had it? There was nobody in the radar room. There was nobody in the bomb hold, either. There had never been anybody on board SV-1 but Gascoigne, not since he had relieved Grinnell—and Grinnell had flown the station up here in the first place. 
  Then who had that sergeant been? His name was—It was—

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  The Music of Erich Zann

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  A poor student of metaphysics becomes obsessed with the odd music of an elderly German viol player who lives in the same boarding house on the mysteriously mysterious Rue d'Auseil - a street that no one else has ever heard of, and which the man is never able to find again later in his life. Unfortunately for both our narrator and the elderly musician someone (or something) else is also obsessed with The Music of Erich Zann.

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  Hope Made A Way

  Lucy Wanjiku Njenga

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  She walks the streets of New York and other countries like she walked the slums of Nairobi growing up. She knows the depths of poverty, the scars of abuse inflicted at a tender age, the trials of teenage motherhood, the unbearable loss of a child, and the agony of living with an abusive partner. As if it wasn't enough, she got diagnosed with a chronic condition all before she was 21 years old.  But now, she stands tall as a beacon of resilience and triumph. Leading a successful community-based organization, serving on influential boards, and speaking alongside renowned figures in global health. Her  dedication being to empower girls and women across Africa.This inspiring memoir offers solace, comfort and a path forward. It reminds us all that no matter where we come from or how dire our circumstances may be, hope has the power to guide us through the darkest of times. Brace yourself for a remarkable story that will captivate your heart, uplift your spirit, and leave you yearning for more

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  Two Fawns

  Aryaa Naik

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  When Sara and Maddy wander into the forbidden forest, they unknowingly drink water from an enchanted stream and trigger a terrible curse. They find themselves transformed into fawns! Will they remain fawns forever or will they be able to reverse the curse?

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  Giants Don't Go Snowboarding

  Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones

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  The Bailey School kids meet the tallest man they have ever seen in the snowboarding teacher at the Golden Egg Ski Lodge, and Liza, remembering the tale of the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk, searches for clues.

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