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Español
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This Spanish book introduces students to the unique geography of the United States. Detailed images in conjunction with easy-to-read text provide readers with an inviting reading and learning experience as they build social studies knowledge. This nonfiction book for 3rd grade students includes basic informational text features including a glossary, an index, and table of contents.
Publisher
World Book
Language
English
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"A 7-volume illustrated, alphabetically arranged set that presents profiles of individual nations and other political/geographical units, including an overview of history, geography, economy, people, culture, and government for each. Includes a history of the settlement of each world region based on archaeological findings; a cumulative index; and Web resources"--Provided by publisher.
4) Antarctica
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to Antarctica. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
6) China
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"The book covers China's geography, capital and largest cities, and its famous landmarks"--
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Language
English
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Detailed photos and full-color maps help take readers on a fascinating visual journey through Europe! This book's appealing format highlights the facts about the human and physical geography of the continent. Readers will put their analytical skills to use to interpret different types of maps as sources of information, from physical maps that show the region's landmarks to political maps that teach about the region's countries to interesting cultural...
8) Australia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Introduces the geography, topography, and climate of the continent of Australia.
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Language
English
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Gary Fuller's entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful country requires citizens to keep guns in their homes? what continent contains at least 75 percent of the world's fresh water? and why aren't New York, Los...
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English
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"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate
...12) North America
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Introduces the geography, topography, and climate of the continent of North America.
13) Nevada
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As one of the driest states in the country, Nevada has few residents outside of cities such as Las Vegas and Reno. Readers will trace the history of this remarkable state from its earliest settlement to its latest developments. They will also dive into the local culture, see the state s many fascinating sights, and learn about its economy.
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Language
English
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Gary Fuller's entertaining and informative guide uses geographic trivia questions as a springboard to learning about non-trivial aspects of our globe. An enlightening book for all readers, it enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun. Discover who named the kangaroo; where can you find Lakers and Salties; what chili peppers, pineapple, chocolate, and vanilla have in common; where Shangri La was; and who was the most successful pirate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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How do we know about the Incas? What were Inca towns and cities like? What was the "lost city of the Incas"? Geography Matters in the Inca Empire looks at how the Inca Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Inca life through its geography. Read about how the mountainous Inca geography led to their development of terrace farming, how the Incas worshipped the mountain peaks as gods and how the size...
16) The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories...
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories...
17) South America
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Introduces the geography, topography, climate, flora, fauna, and population of the continent of South America. Geography of the World introduces students to the major geographic features of our planet. With original maps and brilliant photographs, each book answers basic questions about how each geographic area developed, what makes it unique, and which plants, animals, and people live there today. Special features include a current-events time line,...
19) Geography
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Did you know that Antarctica's largest land animal is an insect? Did you know that the smallest country in the world is only 0.2 square miles?! Learn more weird-but-true geography facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman's bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations." -- Amazon.com.
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English
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"[This book] is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. This ... book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too...