Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.
Introduces readers to whales that are classified as endangered today. It examines why they may have become endangered as well as conservation efforts being made to help them.
Introduces readers to sharks that are classified as endangered today. It examines why they may have become endangered as well as conservation efforts being made to help them.
Introduces readers to mammals that are classified as endangered today. It examines why they may have become endangered as well as conservation efforts being made to help them.
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip-especially about the new boy, Leku-twelve-year-old Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There she befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu, Swahili for seed.
"Leah the biology expert and Gustavo the history buff are whisked away on a mission to a forest in North Carolina. There, they meet a botanist working to protect the amazing Venus flytrap--an endangered species of plant--from being stolen by poachers and sold for money. It'll take every bit of brainpower, bravery, and expertise that Leah and Gustavo have to stop the poachers and rescue the plants"--OCLC.
