Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606097123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.
One Day in the Desert
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606097123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606097123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.
Gathering the Desert
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510146
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510146
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
Sharks in the Desert
Author: John L. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569802748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story fo the evolution of the gambling racket from mobbed-up vice to corporate success story as told through the biographies of the men who made it happen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569802748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story fo the evolution of the gambling racket from mobbed-up vice to corporate success story as told through the biographies of the men who made it happen.
Way Out in the Desert
Author: T. J. Marsh
Publisher: Rising Moon Books
ISBN: 9780873588027
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.
Publisher: Rising Moon Books
ISBN: 9780873588027
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A counting book in rhyme presents various desert animals and their children, from a mother horned toad and her little toadie one to a mom tarantula and her little spiders ten. Numerals are hidden in each illustration.
In the Desert
Author: Howard Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9780743983563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book takes a closer look at the main characteristics of a desert, how they're formed, and how plants and animals have adapted to their arid environment. Reads at a level of 2.5 with a word count of 558.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9780743983563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book takes a closer look at the main characteristics of a desert, how they're formed, and how plants and animals have adapted to their arid environment. Reads at a level of 2.5 with a word count of 558.
A Diamond in the Desert
Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560215
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever thinks about. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tetsu and his family are forced from their home into an internment camp in the Arizona desert with other Japanese Americans, and baseball becomes the last thing on his mind. The camp isn’t technically a prison, but it sure feels like one when there’s nothing to do and no place to go. So when a man starts up a boys’ baseball team, Tetsu is only too eager to play again. But with his sister suddenly falling ill, and his father taken away for questioning, Tetsu is forced to choose between his family and his love of the game.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101560215
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever thinks about. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tetsu and his family are forced from their home into an internment camp in the Arizona desert with other Japanese Americans, and baseball becomes the last thing on his mind. The camp isn’t technically a prison, but it sure feels like one when there’s nothing to do and no place to go. So when a man starts up a boys’ baseball team, Tetsu is only too eager to play again. But with his sister suddenly falling ill, and his father taken away for questioning, Tetsu is forced to choose between his family and his love of the game.
Emily's Day in the Desert
Author: Giselle Shardlow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530908950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Experience the benefits of yoga while learning about the desert! Join Emily as she spends a day in the Death Valley desert with her parents. Learn about the desert through easy yoga poses for kids while you glide like a hawk, dart like a fox, and slither like a snake! The storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story. This desert yoga story for ages 4 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530908950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Experience the benefits of yoga while learning about the desert! Join Emily as she spends a day in the Death Valley desert with her parents. Learn about the desert through easy yoga poses for kids while you glide like a hawk, dart like a fox, and slither like a snake! The storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide. Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story. This desert yoga story for ages 4 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.
Blue Desert
Author: Charles Bowden
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510818
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510818
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
The Complete Poems
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1447868633
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This collection offers the complete poems of Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900), as well as essays on him by Joseph Conrad and Willa Cather. One of the best short story writers of all time, Crane was also an important poet who established laconic precision as the dominant style of free verse. His followers included such authors as Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings. Without any doubt, Crane should be regarded as the father of modern-days' literary minimalism.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1447868633
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This collection offers the complete poems of Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900), as well as essays on him by Joseph Conrad and Willa Cather. One of the best short story writers of all time, Crane was also an important poet who established laconic precision as the dominant style of free verse. His followers included such authors as Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings. Without any doubt, Crane should be regarded as the father of modern-days' literary minimalism.
People of the Desert
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pueblos beneath a turquoise sky, kindred tribes in a daunting land, in the realm of the Apache and Navajo.
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pueblos beneath a turquoise sky, kindred tribes in a daunting land, in the realm of the Apache and Navajo.