Planet Earth is perfect. It orbits at the perfect distance from the sun; it tilts at just the right angle, and it has a moon just large enough to hold it in place. On top of that, the day-to-day workings of the planet naturally serve to nurture its plants and animals. The five-part series will show how the forces of nature, weather, ocean currents, solar energy, and volcanoes, drive, shape, and support Earth's great diversity of life.

Learn some of the reasons why various animals are able to survive the desert climate.

"When Billie B. Brown goes to preschool, every day becomes a super-duper adventure... Billie is off on a great desert adventure! But will her magic carpet help her escape the forty furious thieves?"--From the publisher's web site.

"Introduces pre-readers to simple concepts about the desert using short sentences and repetition of words"--Provided by publisher.

"Provides information on deserts, one of the major biomes, or ecological areas, in the world today"--

Tom and Elenna travel into the desert, facing extreme heat as they battle Malvel's latest beast, Vipero the snake man.

Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan Two-Trees heads west to California--to freedom. But the Rio Grande's bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. From his berth aboard the gleaming Santa Fe railway, Harlan brims with the promise of a new life. But when a daring robbery maroons him in the desert, he is back in the world he knows--where death is king and justice comes from the smoking barrel of a gun....

A young person's story of growing up gay in a rural Mormon town and the wild places where he found refuge.

This intimate record lays bare one person's experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Weaving together prose, poetry, and stories scrawled on the margins of high school notebooks, Jonathan T. Bailey encounters

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"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...