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What Is a Whale?
Contributor(s): Kalman, Bobbie (Author), Levigne, Heather (Author)
ISBN: 0865059535     ISBN-13: 9780865059535
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $8.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1999
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation: Ocean dwellers may be some of the most fascinating animals on the planet. Full-color illustrations take children into the depts of these creatures' watery home accompanied by tidbits of text highlighting the habits and habitat of whales.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Marine Life
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Mammals
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Biology
Dewey: 599.35
LCCN: 99-30370
Lexile Measure: 920
Series: Science of Living Things (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.14" H x 8.45" W x 9.52" (0.33 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Secular
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 36321
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The Science of Living Things series helps children understand that they are as connected to trees, rocks, and weather as the animals that live outdoors This important series helps define the basic concept of life and investigates the incredible world of living things. Each book explores a basic scientific concept or animal using:
-- easy-to-understand text
-- clearly labeled diagrams
-- exciting, full-color photographs

Whales are the only mammals that spend their entire life in the water. From playful dolphins to enormous blue whales, the behavior, habitats, and physiology of these amazing marine mammals are explored in What is a Whale? Spectacular full-color photos help show:
-- flukes, flippers, and fins
-- the whale family tree
-- baleen and toothed whales
-- how whales communicate through echolocation
-- watery homes and what they eat
-- baby whales
-- whale-watching and why whales are in danger