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Beneath Blue Waters
The authors guide readers on a tour of the mysterious creatures who live in the ocean's depths. Color photographs illustrate the amazing, adaptable marine life. The vocabulary is advanced. The book is organized by ocean zones which are graphically chart
| Author: Kovacs, Deborah and Madin, Kate |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Cod's Tale, A
With charming illustrations and text, this book makes a case for ecology and conservation by presenting the history of cod. Also included are a timeline as a crawler at the bottom of the page and further suggestions for reading.
| Author: Kurlansky, Mark |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Flotsam
This wordless picture book tells the story of a young boy who finds a very old, waterproof camera that washed up on the beach as flotsam. When he develops the film that is still inside the camera, he and the reader find surprises.
Journey, The: Stories of Migration
Bracketed by an introduction and conclusion, the book describes the migrations of six very different creatures.
| Author: Rylant, Cynthia |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Safari Beneath the Sea
Chapters entitled "Far Out Fish" and "Mind-Boggling Mammals" etc. are illustrated by colorful photographs of life in and around the sea. Additional facts are included in boxes and in bold faced and bulleted sections throughout the text. A useful index g
| Author: Swanson, Diane |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
Beautiful color woodcuts illustrate information about the Barbour seahorse. The book includes pictures of other types of seahorses and an index (that is also a good vocabulary list).
| Author: Butterworth, Chris |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Swan Song
The poet and artist collaborated to create poetic, humorous post-mortems for extinct creatures. A timeline crawls across the bottom margin and back matter provides more information about the creatures and their habitats.
| Author: Lewis, J. Patrick |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Sports/Recreation
Sports/Recreation > fishing
Father Water, Mother Woods
These essays recount Paulsen's adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of Northern Minnesota. Paulsen shows us fishing, hunting, and camping as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of lessons about life.
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Work > fisherman
Ann and Seamus
This story of a real event in 1828 alternates chapters in free verse of the two characters of the title. Ann, a real teenager, wants to experience the world beyond Newfoundland, and Seamus, a fictional Irish immigrant, wants to find fortune and a wife.
| Author: Major, Kevin |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Work > occupations
Work > occupations > fishing
Cod's Tale, A
With charming illustrations and text, this book makes a case for ecology and conservation by presenting the history of cod. Also included are a timeline as a crawler at the bottom of the page and further suggestions for reading.
| Author: Kurlansky, Mark |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Mermaid Summer, The
Jon and Ana, brother and sister, display intelligence and courage as they break a mermaid's curse on their grandfather and the fishing community.
Moby-Dick
Melville's classic tale of Ahab's obsessive hunt for the great white whale Moby Dick is retold in a format that includes excerpts from the original, summarized passages (each in a different type face), a very helpful glossary, a labeled cross-section of t
| Author: Melville, Herman/Needle, Jan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Young Man and the Sea, The
In an attempt to push his father out of the alcohol-fueled funk he's been in since his wife died, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman repairs the family fishing boat and meets a 900-lb. tuna 30 miles at sea.
| Author: Philbrick, Rodman |
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Young Man and the Sea, The
In an attempt to push his father out of the alcohol-fueled funk he's been in since his wife died, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman repairs the family fishing boat and meets a 900-lb. tuna 30 miles at sea.
| Author: Philbrick, Rodman |
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