Jack E. Davis
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English
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"The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples...
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English
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Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though...
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English
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No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents-growth merchants intent on having...
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The Zack files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Zack feels that a supernatural force is at work in his apartment when he encounters floating television sets, pancakes that flip by themselves, and a ghost named Wanda
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The Zack files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After Zack opens his medicine cabinet one morning and sees a boy who could be his double staring back at him, he enters a parallel universe
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The Zack files volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When his friend Spencer, the class genius, spends the night, he and Zack discover how to leave their bodies and travel around New York City, but they have one problem--how to get back inside themselves
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The Zack files volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this time-travel story, Zack, a fifth-grader, meets his future son. When Zack goes to a store to buy a baseball card, he finds himself face-to-face with his future son who has traveled back in time
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A Tyrannosaurus rex cannot decide what kind of costume to wear on Halloween night. It's the darkest, scariest night of the year . . . and T. Rex can't decide what he wants to be for Halloween. Everything he thinks of just isn't uniquely frightening enough. Join T. Rex and his friends as he tries to figure out the perfect SCARY costume for trick-or-treating. Is it a bat? Or a cat? Or maybe a jack-o'-lantern? Lois G. Grambling and Jack E. Davis's delightful,...
14) The sweet tooth
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Stewart's loud, obnoxious sweet tooth constantly gets him into trouble, until Stewart uses a healthy diet to take control of the situation
15) Bedhead
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After many unsuccessful attempts to control his unruly hair one morning, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem--until he gets to school and finds that it is school picture day
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Series
The Zack files volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Zack takes home from the local animal shelter a scruffy tomcat who not only talks, but claims to be the reincarnation of Zack's Great-Grandpa Julius
18) Monster Goose
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures
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Series
The Zack files volume 29
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack, his father, and Spencer fight to save the world from a rude, bossy, and hungry package of freeze-dried spores purchased at The Orville and Fanny Shlectwasser Museum of Air and Space
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Series
The Zack files volume 27
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After she eats his homework, ten-year-old Zack suspects that his substitute teacher Mrs. Wolfowitz is a werewolf and uncovers her bizarre secret