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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Creative nonfiction picture book explains evolution and natural selection. A newly-emerged peppered moth blends in with other speckled-winged moths on lichen-covered branches, but over time the moths with black wings increase as trees are blackened by soot from man-made machines.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Middle school is off to a depressing start for Marvin Watson, his new baby brother is proving to be a disappointment, and now his town is being threatened by a horde of mutant bugs, including a hungry spider that quotes Shakespeare--and if that is not enough there are three sarcastic man-sized moths living in the attic.
Author
Series
Isla of adventure volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Isla is excited about her first-ever sleepover at Tora's, but the night takes a spooky turn when they hear strange fluttering sounds in the attic.
Author
Series
Butterfly Meadow volume 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In Butterfly Meadow, colorful butterflies dance through the air, glowworms inch through the grass, and bumblebees buzz around every flower. It's a place where friendships and adventures take flight! When Skipper and her friends come across a group of moths in the meadow, they're in for a fright! They join the moths for a night flight, but everything looks extra-spooky in the dark. Will Skipper's latest adventure turn into a nightmare?"--p.[4] of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring trilingual (Spanish and French texts are above and below the English) story that encourages children not to quit. The last pages include small thumbnail images of the illustrations throughout the book with space to write their own story.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, after his father has inexplicably disappeared leaving Cully with his three eccentric aunts on their barely profitable apple farm, Cully goes to work for a mysterious antiques dealer who has the strange hobby of collecting shadows.
11) Adios, Oscar!
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Emmy-nominated author and New York Times best-selling illustrator Peter Elwell crafts a bright and cheerful book about choosing your own path in life. Oscar the caterpillar lives in a flower pot in Cleveland. One day, a monarch butterfly floats by, headed for Mexico. Oscar learns that he will one day have wings too-but when that day comes, Oscar gets quite a surprise. ". its ebullient, optimistic tone [gives] the book strong appeal for children [and]...
12) Claudia & Moth
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Gary Grey Moth who desperately wants to be seen and Florence Butterfly who has had enough of being noticed. What would happen if they swapped cardigans and could each be the bug they always wanted to be? This fast-paced and perceptive story is about expectations and identity, told from the unlikely but utterly relatable perspectives of a moth and a butterfly. They're not so different, if you really think about it"--
14) Phalaina
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1881. There's something a little eerie about Manon -- she's not like the other girls at the orphanage. Maybe it's her red eyes. Maybe it's her silence. Maybe it's the series of violent deaths that seem to follow her. What we do know: someone is hot on her tail. And there's a lot of money at stake in finding out where exactly she comes from -- and what exactly she is. Alongside Manon's story are letters to Charles Darwin from Professor...
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