HeroRat!
HeroRat!

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807503851

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2023 Finalist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books STARRED REVIEW! "A fun series that kids will enjoy."—Booklist starred review Meet a rodent with a life-saving sense of smell. Magawa is an African giant pouched rat with a special skill: sniffing out buried land mines. Follow this HeroRat from training at a university in Tanzania, to working in the field in Cambodia, to winning a gold medal for her efforts to make land safe for humans and animals once again.

HeroRat!
HeroRat!

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Animalographies

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780807503843

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Magawa is an African giant pouched rat with a special skill: sniffing out buried land mines. Follow this HeroRat from training at a university in Tanzania, to working in the field in Cambodia, to winning a gold medal for her efforts to make land safe for humans and animals once again.

Spidernaut
Spidernaut

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807504408

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Told in the first person as if written by Arabella herself, she describes how she was the first spider to spin a web in space in 1973, and even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Reading Arabella's diary and the story, we learn how spiders spin webs and why this experiment, suggested by a high school student, was important.

Togo and Balto
Togo and Balto

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Animalographies

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780807503829

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It was 1925 and the world was in a diptheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its children but there was only one way to get there: dog sled. Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, were part of the relay race that pushed through below-freezing temperatures and a blizzard to bring the serum to Nome.

Animal Heroes
Animal Heroes

Author: Jane Bingham

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1432948342

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This volume recounts true stories of animal heroism, from horses and dogs serving alongside their human companions, to messenger pigeons flying through enemy lines.

Animals to the Rescue!
Animals to the Rescue!

Author: Sandra Markle

Publisher: Millbrook Press TM

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1728447658

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Did you know that rats can be heroes? In the southern African nation of Mozambique, these amazing rats (which are the size of a small house cat) have helped clear landmines. And that's just one of the incredible stories in this book. Award-winning author Sandra Markle has collected wonderful true stories about animals that have rescued humans—and other animals. With fabulous photographs of the featured animals, this book is sure to appeal to animal lovers everywhere!

Chicken Frank, Dinosaur!
Chicken Frank, Dinosaur!

Author: S. K. Wenger

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807511420

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Can Chicken Frank prove he's related to a T.rex? Chicken Frank wants to prove he's related to a T.rex—because of evolution!—but none of the other farm animals believe him, until he gets his DNA test results. This comic-book style picture book combines information with humor to explore the concept of evolution and the connection between birds and dinosaurs.

How to Grow an Apple Pie
How to Grow an Apple Pie

Author: Beth Charles

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807504076

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The apple trees in Sophie's orchard are ready to grow apples, and Sophie is ready to make a pie! It's easy to make an apple pie, but what does it take to make the apples? Sophie is about to find out! First, the apple trees need to be about six years old—just like Sophie. Next, they need to be pruned, and the bees have to pollinate their blossoms! After that, the tiny apples grow through the summer until they’re ready to pick in the fall. Finally, it’s time for Sophie to make the perfect pie!

The Princess and the Petri Dish
The Princess and the Petri Dish

Author: Sue Fliess

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807566454

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Pippa isn't your usual princess. She prefers petri dishes to perfecting her curtseying. And when she realizes that she doesn't like peas, she gets a bright idea that consumes her and almost the whole kingdom.

Rat
Rat

Author: Andrzej Zaniewski

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781559702621

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To be published simultaneously in nine countries, Rat is an allegorical novel--about the laws that govern society, about our mythologies, truths and lies, behaviors and institutions, love and hope--as reflected in the gutters, drains and sewers where our close relative, the rat, lives.