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While Little Skink hunts for breakfast, she is attacked by a crow. To escape, she snaps off her tail. Little Skink's tail follows her as she daydreams of having the tails of other animals in the forest. Includes "For Creative Minds" section with information on tail adaptations and communications and a mix-and-match tail activity.
3) Squeeze me
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"From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller. Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager...
4) Star Island
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A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (The New York Times Book Review) and the national bestselling author of Squeeze Me.
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in...
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in...
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Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea—from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me.
When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically...
When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically...
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.
"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review
When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe...
"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review
When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits.
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
9) No Surrender
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Richard's cousin is missing, and his best hope of finding her rests with the wily, one-eyed, ex-governor of Florida. Carl Hiaasen introduces his iconic character Skink to a younger audience in this nail-biting adventure!
A National Book Award Longlist Selection
Classic Malley: her parents are about to ship her off to boarding school, so she takes off with some guy she met online... Poor Richard: he's...
A National Book Award Longlist Selection
Classic Malley: her parents are about to ship her off to boarding school, so she takes off with some guy she met online... Poor Richard: he's...
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¡Mientras que la Pequeña Lagartija anda en busca de deliciosas hormigas para su desayuno, es atacada repentinamente por un cuervo! Pero ella tiene un truco para escaparse - ¡se desprende de su colita, y ésta se sigue moviendo! La Pequeña Lagartija está contenta de estar viva, pero extraña su brillante cola azul. Los lectores van a disfrutar pretendiendo con ella, probándose colita tras colita. La primera cola es muy suavecita - esponjosita,...
13) Amazing lizards
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Features some of the remarkable members of the lizard world, including the chameleon, flying gecko, and blue tongue skink, and describes important characteristics of the whole group.
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Presents information about some the unique abilities of different animals' tongues and explores what children might be able to do if one day they woke up and their tongues were replaced by amazing animal tongues, including the tongue of a tube-lipped nectar bat, an okapi, and a blue-tongued skink.
16) Lizards
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Lizards covers what lizards like to eat, what they look like, features and abilities, as well as specific species like the blue-railed skink, chameleons, and more.
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Young Camaleon dreams of becoming a reptile wresting champion. However, to reach his goal, this little lizard must rise through the ranks of the LWA (the Lizard Wrestling Association). He'll face some of the fiercest and freakiest lizards around including the Flying Dragon, the Blue Tongued Skink, and KOMODO, and, in the end, find his true identity (not an easy task for a Chameleon).
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