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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
2) Izzy & Oscar
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Octopuses make the best pets! Pretend pirate captain Izzy is looking for a pet when an adventurous little octopus squiggles into town"--
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"A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors. Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. How can we study an animal with perfect camouflage and secretive habitats? How does...
6) Octopuses
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Octopuses have amazing minds. Scientists are discovering these animals have a mind-blowing range of abilities and emotions. With this new insight, they can better understand octopuses-and our world! A table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, scientist spotlight, and sidebars are included in this title"--
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"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--
"In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive,...
10) Crime wave!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Superman, Batman and the rest of their CD Super Friends team up to stop the nefarious Black Manta, who has stolen the world's largest pearl and unleashed a deadly giant octopus
11) Octopants
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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An octopus searches in vain for underpants that fit, until a seahorse offers a useful observation that changes the way the octopus sees the problem
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story, the octopus has to want somethingmaybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to build a spaceship out of soda cans, glue, umbrellas, glitter, and waffles. OK, maybe the octopus needs some help, like from an adorable bunny friend, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something...
14) Octopuses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Octopuses are the escape artists of the sea. With no bones, they're known to squeeze into tiny places and out of their tanks in aquariums. They come in all sizes and colors and feature some interesting body parts readers love to learn more about. In this volume, achievable main text and accompanying up-close photographs aid beginning readers in their quest to read and learn about octopuses. A picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary learned on these...
15) Cowboy & Octopus
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cowboy and Octopus maintain their friendship despite different opinions about things like beans and knock-knock jokes
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The dignified seahorse, the billowing jelly, and the stealthy octopus: We long to see every aspect of their graceful forms. For more than a decade, celebrated nature photographer David Littschwager has traveled the world to reveal their mysterious beauty. His extraordinary images will bring you closer than ever to these colorful and enigmatic creatures."--Back cover
In this ode to some of the most wondrous species on Earth, a celebrated photographer...
17) Octicorn party!
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Octicorn is back! Octi dreams of having a pool party. But what if no one comes? That would be the most embarrassing thing ever! So Octi sets out to have a party that will make everyone happy -- until he realizes that may just be a disaster waiting to happen
18) Poor little guy
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English
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"An octopus gets a big surprise when he chooses to pick on a tiny fish in the ocean"--
19) Hooray for fall!
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Oswald and Weenie try to convince Henry to have fun in the falling autumn leaves, instead of trying to clean them up
20) Tickly octopus
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Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Octopus enjoys tickling other creatures, although most of them want him to stop, but one day his tickling causes big trouble and while he is trying to set things right, he discovers that he is good at doing other things, as well
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