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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the icy continent splits in two, separating Manny from his family, he sets off with Sid and Diego to find a land bridge that will reunite them, but before long they run into a rowdy group of pirates.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bird and Squirrel are back and ready for adventure!After Bird and Squirrel crash land in the South Pole during a raging blizzard, a penguin named Sakari thinks Bird has come to rid her village of a hungry Killer Whale. But when Squirrel finds out that Bird will actually be fed to the Killer Whale as a sacrifice, they hatch a crazy plan to escape. With good timing, a little luck, and help from Sakari, they just might make it out alive. Or they...
Author
Series
Mermaid S.O.S volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amber leads her fellow mermaids in trying to help beluga whales that are trapped in ice, while working on solving a riddle from evil Mantora, whose theft of the Snow Diamonds may cause the Ice Kingdom to melt.
5) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Bowhead whales are amazing creatures that often live lives longer than humans! These whales live in Arctic waters near the North Pole, smashing through thick ice to reach the surface to breathe. Using their baleen, these large mammals feed on tiny animals swimming in the cold waters, while thick blubber keeps them warm in frigid temperatures. Readers explore their everyday lives using the latest scientific research about these long-living animals,...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"1842. Stranded on Deception Island in the South Atlantic, her whaling captain husband lost at sea, Karina is destitute and desperate. Disguised as a cabin boy, she stows away on a British ship. But Karina is about to get a nasty surprise. As she grows closer to ship's surgeon Joseph Hooker, Karina and the rest of the crew find themselves pushed to the limits both physically and emotionally as conditions worsen onboard. Engulfed in the chillingly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An iceberg shears from a glacier and begins a journey that takes it through Antarctica's seasons, meeting many creatures along the way. Follow the iceberg through the seasons, first in the spring as it watches penguins trek across the ice to their winter homes and senses krill stirring underneath the ice. With summer comes more life: the iceberg sees humpback whales spiral and orca gather. And the iceberg moves too, ever shrinking as the sun softens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Starfish Bay Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Who do you think would win a game of ice hockey between a team of penguins or polar bears? Or perform the most acrobatic tricks on a snowboard, a whale or a dolphin? Or speed skate the fastest, a hare or moose? You be the judge! Competing against each other in 10 winter sporting events are a selection of Arctic and Antarctic creatures that are experts on snow and ice. The unique skills each creature would bring to these events are described in a...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Nicola Davies, the award-winning author of A First Book of Nature, presents a spellbinding treasury of poems about the animal world, illustrated in breathtaking detail by Petr Horacek. Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, fireflies twinkling in the evening sky and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - there are animals everywhere. From blue whales to bumblebee bats and everything in between, A First Book of Animals...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Great God, this is an awful place.' Robert Falcon Scott's famous words uttered on the polar plateau don't paint Antarctica in the best possible light. In fact things were about to get a whole lot worse for Scott and the four men who accompanied him to the South Pole. But this is no dismal tragedy. The story of Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition is pure adventure with all the elements of a great epic - storms at sea, impenetrable ice pack, man-eating...
Author
Publisher
Frommer Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2019-]
Language
English
Description
"Find the New England of your dreams--whether it's finding the most reliable whale-watching cruises, snagging a room in a country inn at the height of leaf-peeping season, skiing fresh powder, going behind-the-scenes at living-history museums, scoring in-demand tickets to the best Berkshires summer festivals, finding the perfect antique on a Connecticut back road, scouting trend-setting chefs in Boston and beyond, or following a quest to find the...