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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! When a David Attenborough-esque narrator explains that turtles are found everywhere except Antarctica, one determined turtle sets out to prove him wrong. After recruiting other non-Antarctic animals along the way-much to the narrator's dismay-the turtle and his adventurous friends travel through fields, forests, and cross an entire ocean to reach their goal. But what exactly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to this desert yes, desert! continent that holds about 90 percent of the world s ice; showcases some of the 200 species that call Antarctica home, including the emperor penguin; and discusses environmental dangers to the continent.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
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Language
English
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Description
The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.
“Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—Locus
It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists...
“Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—Locus
It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Provides information on Antarctica and penguins, discussing the physical characteristics and history of Antarctica, animals that live there, famous people who explored it, types of penguins, and the lives of emperor penguins.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A three-decade report on the Adélie penguins reveals how rapid global warming in the western Antarctic Peninsula poses formidable challenges to their survival, in an account that chronicles a memorable field season in Antarctica.
Publisher
Dreamworks Animation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Penguins have a two-fold mission. First, they must assure that a young leopard seal named Hunter makes it back to Antarctica safely without becoming fish food. Second, they must get Private back from the leopard seals without becoming dinner.
Author
Series
Secret space programs volume 3
Publisher
Exopolitics Institute
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1955, as a result of a secret agreement reached between the Eisenhower Administration and a German breakaway group in Antarctica, a transnational corporate space program began to emerge. The secret infusion of personnel and resources from US military contractors into Antarctica allowed this transnational corporate program to steadily grow into a major space power, which would eventually surpass and eclipse the secret space programs run by the US...
13) The ice limit
Author
Language
English
Description
"The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move, a nightmare of physics requiring incredible human ingenuity. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Studying Antarctica has never been for the fainthearted. "Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard to try to save his comrades, beset by hardship."
—Inscription on a cross placed near presumed final resting place of Antarctic explorer Lawrence "Titus" Oates, The Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913 "We have one...
18) Antarctica
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Get ready for a fascinating trip around the seven continents of the world! Simple, engaging text and colorful, mesmerizing pictures teach you about each continent's land features, populations, native animals, technological advances, and lots more-including how to find each continent on a map! Antarctica is the most remote continent, and this title teachers readers all about the people who study and explore there, as well as the animals that live there....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
20) Happy feet two
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When the entire nation of Emperor Penguins is threatened, trapped by an enormous iceberg, Antarctic creatures big and small must work together to rescue them"--Container.
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