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1) Parakeets
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"Here's everything a new pet owner needs to know about Parakeets: purchasing, cages and equipment, feeding, health care, and more. Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are written mainly for prospective and inexperienced pet owners, introducing them to the details and responsibilities of pet care. The heavily illustrated books in this series are also helpful for older children seeking pet care information and advice. Barron's selection of titles...
2) Parakeets
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Examines the unusual qualities, background, habitations and habits of the parakeet and describes how it can be selected as a pet, reared, and trained.
8) My parakeet
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A young boy talks about his pet, Pop, and tells how he takes care of the parakeet. Includes photographs and a work list.
11) A dream of birds
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"Sara has a thing for birds. They remind her of her grandfather, who loved birds, and the wonderful show the creatures would put on in his yard each day...as Sara walks to school in her island town, she longs for the freedom of those birds. Then she spots a new birdhouse full of parakeets in someone's yard. Sara feels drawn to them and unable to forget them. So what happens the next time, when she finds the door to the birdhouse unlocked?" --Front...
12) A good fall
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In his first book of stories since "The Bridegroom," National Book Award-winner Jin gives readers a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
13) Lightning pack
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"Independent packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: Will explore ideas for discussion ; Engages in conversation ; Reads with understanding and purpose ; Reads and comprehends literature proficiently ; Constructs text in an organized manner ; Uses transitional and link words."--
Designed for the student looking for an advantage in improving their reading and understanding skills! 20 original stories with a variety...
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"Kids will have fun learning about different kinds of animals as they improve reading comprehension, explore interactive stories, strengthen spelling, and more. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad."
In this fun story, a tornado has swept away all of a farmer's animals but he doesn't give up. He turns his mess into a masterpiece by using machine parts to create mechanimals to help him get all of his work done on the farm....
16) Amazing Monty
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First-grader Montgomery Gerald Morris enjoys an exciting year as his class acquires a pair of parakeets as pets, he loses his first tooth, and he becomes a big brother.
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"Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the star high school quarterback and have secret abortions,...
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A shared fascination for the Dodo, a passion for wildlife, and desire to protect ecosystems is what unites a characterful group of artists and scientists. They inspire each other to reconstruct in bronze nine extinct creatures from Mauritius, including the Dodo, for return to their natural habitat. As a conservation showpiece unveiled by the Prime Minister, the sculptures stand as a memorial to current vital conservation programmes that are rescuing...
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Nanty Solo is new in town and claims she can turn children into birds. Terrified parents forbid the idea, but the children want to fly--they want it very much--and they do. One by one, they approach Nanty Solo. One by one, they are transformed until the sky over town teems with rooks and goldfinches, parakeets and sparrows. The adults take one look and cry, "Get out of that sky this very minute!" But the sight of their offspring--set free to soar,...
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