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2024
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Get the Summary of Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The Light Eaters (2024) explores the intricate world of plants, revealing their complex behaviors and interactions. Environmental journalist Zoë Schlanger explains how plants, soil, microbes, and animals coexist in a delicate balance. She delves into the astonishing abilities of plants, including their capacity for memory, communication,...
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CHAPTER CLARITY
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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DISCLAIMER Navigating complex literary works has never been simpler with our comprehensive study guides! Dive deep into the world of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by zoë schlanger with our expertly crafted resources. Whether you're a student aiming to elevate your understanding and grades, an educator seeking to streamline lesson planning, a book club member looking to...
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Bairns of Bren volume 2
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English
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The Kingdom of Bren faces a deadly foe. Can the Jennings children defeat a light-eating dragon in time to save the realm? The Jennings kids are once more swept into the magical land of Bren to fight a monster only they can conquer. The kingdom is falling into darkness under the attacks of Luminaud, a giant red dragon, who draws his strength from the light of life, beginning with the light of children! Only the great, mystical sword known as Lumen's...
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"Meet the world's most unusual monsters in this darkly funny collection of creatures and cryptids from folkloric history. Illustrator Emma SanCartier captures the bizarre and hilarious elements of seventeen monsters from around in the world in a light, tongue-in-cheek tone, from the Japanese dream-eater Baku and the Persian carnivorous unicorn Shadhavar to the Eastern-European Shurale, a literal tickle monster"--
7. Plant
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A photo essay introduces the world of plants, including the germination of seeds, plant defenses, and uses of plants. "The most impressive feature of this book is the quality of the carefully composed images, such as the time-lapse aging of a blossom. Each superb spread contains a complete topic, including how a plant is pollinated, how seeds are spread, and surviving above the snow line. Readers of many ages can appreciate this."
8. Eater
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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner -- ex-astronaut-turned astronomer -- is dying. But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons' immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm...
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English
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The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief-a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children's tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire's Oz, is darker, richer,...
10. Arcade gaming
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Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
640L
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English
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about arcade gaming. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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1150L
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What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldn't be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements. As the era of unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it's time to...
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Columbia University Press
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English
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"We have all had that experience with the friend who has a new diet, one that he's following enthusiastically. Or maybe we've been that friend, adopting a new diet because we learned about it from another friend, or read about it online, in a magazine, or heard a compelling celebrity endorsement. Most such diets promise the same things: weight loss, better health, better sleep, mental functioning and a general improvement in mood and affect - in other...
14. sun eater
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Querencia Press, LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"sun eater is a reminder from dre levant to bathe in sunlight like a cat on a porch. levant manages to weave light, love, hope, and the thread of darker times, into a blanket he wraps you in. sun eater is the optimistic voice of a resilient veteran of the past telling you that it's okay to go outside and play. levant's technical brilliance shines through in the tender verses, breathtakingly honest and heartbreakingly hopeful. levant asks if you can...
15. A taste for red
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When some of her classmates disappear, sixth-grader Svetlana, along with her new friends go in search of the missing students using her newfound ability as an Olfactive, one who has heightened smell, hearing, and the ability to detect vampires.
17. Comet rising
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Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
740L
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English
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Shadow weaver Emmeline and her best friend Lucas, a light singer, must try to use their powers to stop evil Lady Aisling, the magic eater, once and for all.
18. Dawn of Legends
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Blood of Gods and Royals volume 4
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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AS HUMANS AND MONSTERS CLASH AND ROYAL BLOOD FLOWS, A NEW AGE WILL DAWN... Prince Alexander of Macedon has battled both men and monsters, but his final war will determine his fate...and the future of all mankind. While Macedon's enemies close in from all corners of the earth, Alexander must fulfill one last prophecy that dictates only he-and he alone-can ensure humanity's survival against the age of the deadly Spirit Eaters. As the threads of fate...
19. I'm a black hole
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MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"Lurking at the center of our galaxy and in the farthest reaches of space are black holes. Once unseeable and unknowable, these cosmic devourers--sometimes born from the death of stars--swallow even light itself. What exactly is a black hole? And how do we even know they exist? In a kid-friendly, rhyming narration, the elusive astronomical object introduces itself as both a behemoth star-eater and a shy, rarely-spotted phenomena. Physicist Eve M....
20. Twice Baked
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Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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When the pickiest eater in America is tapped to judge a cooking competition along with his chef ex-boyfriend, will it be a recipe for a second chance... or disaster? Luke Walker's humor about foods he can't stand made him an internet celebrity and his blog, The Pickiest Eater in America, a huge hit. He plans to bring that same lighthearted comedy to the show-but he won't be the only host. Meyer Thibodeaux might be a famous chef, but he's solemn, uptight,...