Darcy Pattison
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"How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5" nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? It took 130 years to find the answer. After experiments, he made a prediction. There must be a...
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The Amazing Voyage of Nefertiti, the Spidernaut. Most spiders spin a web and passively wait for prey to come to them. Jumping spiders, by contrast, actively hunt by jumping to catch their food. What if a jumping spider was sent to the International Space Station? When it jumped, it would simply float. No one knew if the spider could hunt in a weightless environment. This nonfiction picture book for elementary kids chronicles the amazing voyage of...
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A brief picture book following the exploits of British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington during the 1919 solar eclipse. Eddington, fascinated with Albert Einstein's then-new theory of general relativity, proved general relativity by photographing the solar eclipse and seeing how the light of stars behind the sun, visible in the shadow of the eclipse, bend around the sun's gravity.
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Kell and his family--aliens in disguise living among humans on Earth--try to make ends meet by putting on cool birthday parties for kids. However, they have gotten noticed by snoopy people around the neighborhood who would turn them in with any concrete evidence that they were aliens. Evidence like Kell's zigzag fingerprints, or the fact that his mother has just laid a pretty green egg.
11) Kell, the alien
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After Kell's family crash lands on Earth, they work to fit in while living in a normal American suburb.
16) Desert Baths
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Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, theroadrunner kicks up a cloud of dust, the javelinawallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with arough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun and moontravel across the sky, learn how twelve different desertanimals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dryand parched land. Explore the desert habitat throughits animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyricalprose, this story is a celebration of...
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Quiet on the set! Come behind the scenes of your favorite cat videos in this funny adventure for chapter book and intermediate readers.
On a glittering night of destiny, a cat star is born.
The Majestic Kennels, home to the famous cats of KittyTube, welcomes a new kitten, Angel Persian. Angel is eager to follow in the footsteps of her famous mother and father and become a Kittytube sensation.
You'll be there when:
Angel aces her first screen...
18) Kittywood
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Angel Persian, a kitten born into a famous KittyTube family, faces her biggest acting challenge yet. The clock is ticking! By the month's end, only ten kittens will be offered acting contracts.
Stardom! Will she be chosen?
Angel must visit the different kennels, work with each director, and rack up views on KittyTube.
Will she find a kennel to call home? The five kennels are so different! Some aim for slow and steady growth, but some love fast...
19) Erosion
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When the Dust Bowl storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the soils in every state, creating maps showing soil composition nationwide. He knew what should be grown in each area, and how to manage the land to conserve the soil. He knew what to do for weathering and erosion.
To do that, he needed the government's help. But how do you convince politicians that...
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A hectic chase inspires Dennis's amazing narrative essay. A romp with his best friend, a Bernese Mountain Dog named Clark Kent, inspires Dennis to write a narrative essay. Recently, Mom asked Dennis to put a leash on Clark Kent so they could take the dog to the veterinarian for shots. Clark gave them all a merry chase! There's lots of action to love here. In this third installment of the The Read and Write Series, children's book author and writing...