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$35.00  
Hardcover, Erich Hoyt, 300 pages, 10 x 1 x 10", 9780228104353
ASJA Writing Awards Recipient Honorable Mention Best Children's/Young Adult Nonfiction Book 2017 Erich Hoyt Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises In the Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, award-winning author and whale researcher Erich Hoyt takes readers into the field for...

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Craig Macgowan, 2 pages, 7.4 x 0.03 x 11.84", 9780898867060
* Durable, inexpensive, fun to use nature identification guide * Great for families, hikers, and park visitors * Created by a high-school science teacher This field guide for Washington's Olympic National Park is easy to stash in the car or slip into your pack. No matter the weather or...

$9.95  
Paperback, Laurence Pringle, 32 pages, 9.8 x 8.8, 9781590789179
Whales are among the world's most captivating creatures. The humpback whale can grow up to fifty feet in length. The blue whale is a giant that can grow to a length of one hundred feet. Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant! Yet all whales aren't enormous, and there are many kinds, from the...

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Paperback, Jennifer O'Connell, 9780884483953
GREEN EARTH BOOK AWARD * * MOONBEAM GOLD AWARD(NON-FICTION) * * MARYLAND BLUE CRAB AWARD * * SOCIETY OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS INTERNATIONAL HONOR AWARD * On a cool December morning near San Francisco, a distress call was radioed to shore by a local fisherman. He had discovered a humpback whale...

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Hardcover, Isabelle Groc, 128 pages, 7 x 9, 9781459817371
Sea otters once ruled the Pacific Ocean, but the fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought this predator to near extinction. Today they’re slowly coming back from the brink, and scientists are learning more about their pivotal role as one of nature’s keystone species. This...

Walruses
HCB070
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Paperback, Valerie Bodden, 24 pages, 9 x 0.2 x 11.5, 9781628322217
This popular series travels the planet to study these and other fascinating mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and invertebrates. Beautiful photos are paired with STEM-appropriate text to examine the featured creature's appearance, habitat, behaviors, and life cycle. Each book also presents a...

Into Great Silence
PGN305
$18.00  
paperback, Eva Saulitis, 268 pages, 6 x 9, 9780807014462
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas   Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas...

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paperback, Sandra Pollard, 192 pages, 6 x 9, 9781626196025
In November 2005, Washington's iconic killer whales, known as Southern Resident orcas, were placed on the endangered species list. It was a victory long overdue for a fragile population of fewer than one hundred whales. Author and certified marine naturalist Sandra Pollard traces the story and...

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Paperback, Christine Butterworth, 32 pages, 9.1 x 0.2 x 9.9, 9780763676490
Follow a gray seal on a journey from sand to sea in an engaging, richly illustrated story with surefire kid appeal. On the shore, a seal looks like a slow, dozy creature that spends its time lazing around or flumping along the sand. But underwater, it’s a different story. Splash! Seal dives...

$39.95  
Hardcover, Larry Foster, 240 pages, 9781734524017
What do whales truly look like? To answer this question, Larry Foster devoted decades of research and study to show whale lovers everywhere the true body shapes of whales, dolphins, and porpoises―Cetacea. His goal: to debunk the centuries-old myths that incorrectly presented whales as grotesque,...

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Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce , 128 pages, 5 x 7, 9781984893208
Track the facts about the unicorn of the sea--the narwhal--and its closest relatives! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #33:   Narwhal on a Sunny Night,  they had lots of questions. What is a narwhal? Why is it nicknamed the unicorn of the sea? What...

Welcome Home, Whales
IPS181
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Hardcover, Christina Booth, 32 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781733121286
A boy dreams of a whale’s call as she returns to a bay recently restored by conservation efforts to introduce her new calf to the world. Winner of the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature "Booth’s ... lyrical prose and cerulean watercolor art swim together...

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Paperback, Sharon Mentyka, 228 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781943328604
Sometimes finding your way home takes more than courage. It takes a leap of faith. Chasing at the Surface  tells the story of a young girl’s courage and the healing power of nature. After her mother unexpectedly leaves home, twelve-year old Marisa struggles with her feelings of loss and...

Isabel of the Whales
RAN091
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Paperback, Hester Velmans, 181 pages, 5 x 7.5, 9780440420255
Eleven year old Isabel is a 'plain old' girl living in Provincetown, MA. Something amazing happens on a whale-watch field trip: whales surround the boat, bumping Isabel into the water and they tell her she is a mermaid.

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Hardcover, Michael Parfit & Suzanne Chisholm, 336 pages, 6 x 9, 9780312353643
The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm. One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called Luna...

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Hardcover, Daniel Frost, 32 pages, 9 x 10, 9783899558166
Award-winning illustrator Daniel Frost tells a tale of kinship and beauty in the wilderness of the Arctic Circle.  There is an animal in the nearby waters that is six times the size of a house and has a heart as big as a boat, yet no one knows where it roams.  This is a place where the...
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