Roop, Connie

"Up high, down low, in freezing temperatures, and in boiling hot places--animals and plants can survive in the most extreme environments!"--Provided by publisher.

Read about Sitting Bull's exciting life's story as if you were really there.

On the eve of the 1860 presidential election, as war clouds gather and the South threatens to secede, eleven-year-old Grace decides to help Abraham Lincoln get elected by writing and advising him to grow a beard.

Up high, down low, in freezing temperatures, and in boiling hot places--animals and plants can survive in the most extreme environments. Level 2. From boiling heat to bone-chilling cold, from dry deserts to dark caves, from tall mountains to deep seas: these animals survive in the extreme environments. Meet incredible creatures, including polar bears and penguins that endure freezing temperatures, brine shrimp that swim in salty waters, birds that fly higher than airplanes, and even the ancient microscopic "water bear" that could stay alive in outer space!.

Follows a baby calf gray whale and its mother on their long, four-month migration from Mexico to Alaska in search of food. Includes a brief biography of Nancy Simmons, curator of the Department of Mammology at the American Museum of Natural History.