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Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

10 best books like Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands (Katherine Roy): Can We Save the Tiger?, Trombone Shorty, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, Dash, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Gravity, No Monkeys, No Chocolate, Grand Canyon, Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals

Can We Save the Tiger?
AuthorMartin Jenkins
ISBN0763649090
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.

Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
Trombone Shorty
AuthorTroy Andrews
ISBN1419714651
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
AuthorSusan Hood
ISBN1481430955
From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.

Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...
Dash
AuthorKirby Larson
ISBN0545416353
New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese-American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII.

Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl...
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
AuthorSusan L. Roth
ISBN1620140047
Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.

Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction...
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375867120
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...
Gravity
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596437170
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand?
What if your feet drifted away from the ground?
What stops everything from floating into space?
Gravity.

As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly...
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
AuthorMelissa Stewart
ISBN1580892876
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist?

This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees...
Grand Canyon
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596439505
Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.

Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals
AuthorJess Keating
ISBN0553512285
Pinkalicious meets National Geographic in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!
Some people think pink is a pretty color. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y color. But it's so much more.
Sure, pink is the color of princesses...
Giant Squid
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN1596435992
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....
Malala pour le droit des filles à l'éducation
AuthorRaphaële Frier
ISBN9782355043
Malala Yousafzai est pakistanaise et musulmane. Depuis l’âge de onze ans, elle dénonce les intégristes musulmans qui considèrent que l’école, ce n’est pas pour les filles. Pour tenter de la faire taire, ils ont même tiré sur elle. Par bonheur, Malala est toujours debout. Aujourd’hui...
The Pirate of Kindergarten
AuthorGeorge Ella Lyon
ISBN1416950249
Doubles are good for lots of things—double scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fact, it can make kindergarten kind of hard. Ginny sees double chairs at reading circle and double words in her books. She knows that only half of what she sees...
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