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1) Whales
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes, in text and illustrations, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of whales.
2) Whales
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Examines the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of whales and describes the different types.
3) Whales
Author
Series
Publisher
Wildlife Education
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Discusses the variety, characteristics, and future of whales.
8) Whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Describes whales, dolphins, seals, and other marine mammals, their habitats, means of communication, and family life.
11) Blue whales
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Examines the life, environment, habits, and endangered status of the blue whale.
13) Humpback whales
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses the physical features, environment, eating habits, life cycle of the humpback whale, as well as the dangers they face and their unique way of communicating.
14) Song for a whale
Author
Language
English
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Tricky Topics: Talking About Disability with Children
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea-how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too.
16) Ice whale
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
17) Stranded
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
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