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Cool Drink of Water, A
Colorful photographs and simple text present people around the world obtaining water to drink. End matter includes a map, geographic locations of photos, and an essay on water conservation that teachers will find useful.
| Author: Kerley, Barbara |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Nobody Particular
A graphic novel format depicts the activist Diane Wilson and her fight against water pollution along the Gulf Coast of Texas. The illustrations contain diagrams to explain problems of pollution.
| Author: Bang, Molly |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Science > water
Cool Drink of Water, A
Colorful photographs and simple text present people around the world obtaining water to drink. End matter includes a map, geographic locations of photos, and an essay on water conservation that teachers will find useful.
| Author: Kerley, Barbara |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Drop of Water, A
Beautiful magnified photographs and clear, direct text describe different states of water--ice, rainbow, steam, frost, dew, and snowflake. Evaporation, condensation, capillary action, and surface tension are explained simply but effectively. A section a
| Author: Wick, Walter |
HSE Descriptors:
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.
Hip-Pocket Papa
The story of an Australian male frog, the size of a thumbnail, who has special pouches to carry his tadpoles until they mature. This little papa is entrusted with the responsibility to nurture and care for his children as they grow from tadpoles to young
| Author: Markle, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | science
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If the World Were a Village
The author takes the phrase "global village" literally, describing a hypothetical village of 100 people using world-wide statistics on nationality, languages, ages, religions, wealth, environmental conditions and so forth. End pages promote "world minded
| Author: Smith, David J. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Letting Swift River Go
This book tells the story of a community's act of selling up the houses and land to the government so that a water reservoir can be built. It is told from the view point of a woman who felt as though she lost her childhood because all her landmarks had
Nobody Particular
A graphic novel format depicts the activist Diane Wilson and her fight against water pollution along the Gulf Coast of Texas. The illustrations contain diagrams to explain problems of pollution.
| Author: Bang, Molly |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Science Verse
Repeating the success of Math Curse, the author and illustrator describe the "poetry of science" through parodies of famous poems. A CD is included.
| Author: Scieszka, John |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Song of the Water Boatman
Employing varied poetic forms and beautiful woodcut illustrations, the book invites the reader to visit the land, water, and underwater life of a pond throughout the seasons.
| Author: Sidman, Joyce |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | science
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Water Dance
Told in a first-person poetic narrative with illustrations that elicit emotional responses, water is described in its many forms--clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. A separate section explains the water cycle.
| Author: Locker, Thomas |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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