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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the potbellied pig's renowned intelligence and cleanliness and its unique breed history. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized mammal. Large, full-color photos show off the potbellied pig's special features. Your readers are unique individuals....
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This book introduces young readers to the Selkirk rex cat, the feline known for its curly coat. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine this breed's history, personality, behavior, and development. Coat characteristics, common colors, size, and care instructions are also highlighted. Beautiful, full-color photos feature the Selkirk rex in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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3) Iguanas
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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the iguana's love of basking in the sun and its tail-dropping defense. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized reptile. Large, full-color photos show off the iguana's special features. Your readers are unique individuals. Shouldn't their pets...
4) Tarantulas
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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the tarantula's hair-flicking defense, silk-spinning abilities, and often gentle nature. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized arachnid. Large, full-color photos show off the varied colors of these delicate spiders. Your readers are unique...
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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the Madagascar hissing cockroach's impressive climbing skills, nocturnal habits, and fascinating variety of hissing sounds. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized insect. Large, full-color photos show off the Madagascar hissing cockroach's...
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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the sugar glider's kitelike patagium, amazing gliding abilities, and social nature. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized marsupial. Large, full-color photos show off the sugar glider's special features. Your readers are unique individuals....
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This book introduces young readers to the Singapura cat, which is the smallest breed of cat. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine this breed's history, personality, behavior, and development. Coat characteristics, common colors, size, and care instructions are also highlighted. Beautiful, full-color photos feature the Singapura in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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8) Birman Cats
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This book introduces young readers to the Birman cat, the feline known for its beautiful white gloves. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine this breed's history, personality, behavior, and development. Coat characteristics, common colors, size, and care instructions are also highlighted. Beautiful, full-color photos feature the Birman cat in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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9) Chameleons
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Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the chameleon's long, sticky, lightning-fast tongue and its amazing color-changing abilities. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized reptile. Large, full-color photos show off the chameleon's special features. Your readers are unique individuals....
10) Chartreux Cats
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This book introduces young readers to the Chartreux cat, an orange-eyed, very old breed. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine this breed's history, personality, behavior, and development. Coat characteristics, common colors, size, and care instructions are also highlighted. Beautiful, full-color photos feature the Chartreux cat in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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This book introduces young readers to the Turkish angora cat, the elegant feline that is a national treasure in Turkey. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine this breed's history, personality, behavior, and development. Coat characteristics, common colors, size, and care instructions are also highlighted. Beautiful, full-color photos feature the Turkish angora in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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From breakfast to dinner and everything in between, this title offers curious readers an appetizing look at the latest and greatest food buzz. Bright, colorful photos will entice readers as they learn about food trends, from functional foods to fats, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Readers will also gain an understanding of how phytochemicals, antioxidants, probiotics, superfoods, and more benefit their bodies. Engaging chapters present...
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From breakfast to dinner and everything in between, this title will work up adventurous readers' appetites with a flavorful look at food culture. Bright, colorful photos will entice readers as they learn about the role food plays in daily life as well as various celebrations, festivals, feasts, and holidays. Readers will also gain an understanding of how folklore, available ingredients, and cooking styles have worked to influence regional specialties...
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Traces the life of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, who led a major expedition from Mexico through what is now the southwestern United States. Travel with Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, sail with Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso, map the Rocky Mountains with John C. Frémont, and much more as daring explorers discover what lay beyond the next mountain, river, or ocean. Includes Would You? questions, comprehensive timelines and maps, and...
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From breakfast to dinner and everything in between, this title will work up hungry readers' appetites with a delicious look at food and diet options. Bright, colorful photos will entice readers as they learn about the benefits of various meal plans, from a vegetarian diet to a Mediterranean one. Readers will also gain an understanding of how to eat green and deal with food allergies. Engaging chapters present ways to assess food options and approach...
16) Fleas
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Fleas are some of the world's peskiest insects! This book's easy-to-read text and larger-than-life color photos bring the flea's world to life, introducing readers to a flea's diet, habitat, enemies, and methods of defense. Diagrams help readers investigate the concept of metamorphosis and identify body parts, from the flea's sharp mouthparts to its long hind legs. The digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems are also described. A step-by-step...
17) Radios
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This book introduces the history of the invention of radios, including its roots in the telegraph and the telephone, the contributions of Michael Faraday, Joseph Henry, James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and Reginald A. Fessenden, as well as Morse code, induction theory, electromagnetic waves, the first transatlantic radio transmission, the first spoken radio messages, and radio communication with astronauts in space....
18) John C. Fremont
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A biography of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the American West to settlers. Travel with Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, sail with Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso, map the Rocky Mountains with John C. Frémont, and much more as daring explorers discover what lay beyond the next mountain, river, or ocean. Includes Would You? questions, comprehensive timelines and maps, and...
19) Hernan Cortes
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An introduction to the life of Hernand Cortes, the Spanish explorer who discovered Baja California and explored the Pacific coast of Mexico, but who is best remembered for conquering the Aztec Empire. Travel with Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, sail with Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso, map the Rocky Mountains with John C. Frémont, and much more as daring explorers discover what lay beyond the next mountain, river, or ocean. Includes...