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This elegantly illustrated book explains stage by stage in easy text how a wasp nest is built. It follows by days and weeks and shows how the queen's industrious workers create a sturdy, weatherproof home. Readers see the inside of the growing nest where the eggs turn into larvae and emerge 20 days later as juveniles. As the nest gets bigger and the story progresses, the book's pages become bigger too. Cross sections show the amazing construction...
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With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
6) Nesting
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Two robins build a nest together and raise their chicks, navigating a year of changing seasons and serpentine predators.
9) Fire! Fire!
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Hilde Cracks the Case volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Nina's antique store burns down, nine-year old reporter Hilde and her sister/photographer, Izzy, are determined to investigate the cause for the Orange Street News--and their main clue is a bird's nest of baby Blue jays.
10) El mejor nido
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a nest only to discover their old home is better.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce different kinds of birds' nests, from the scrapes falcons build on high, craggy ledges to the underground nests burrowing owls dig. Includes brief facts about each kind of bird.
12) Not Your Nest!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Bird builds the perfect nest, the only problem is everyone else wants to sleep in it!"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In the rhyming style of "The House That Jack Built," this poem about the care and specificity that Carolina wrens put into building a nest is at once tender and true to life. Papa and Mama Wren gather treasures of the forest, from soft moss for a lining to snakeskin for warding off predators. Randi Sonenshine's lilting stanzas, woven with accurate and unexpected details about Carolina wrens, and Anne Hunter's gentle, inviting illustrations reveal...
15) Ten on a twig
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Illustrations and an easy-to-read countdown rhyme follow ten birds that, one by one, fall off the twig on which they were sitting, but the last one finds a surprise waiting.
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