Download or read book Whale Talk written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A truly exceptional book.”—Washington Post There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. Bestselling author Chris Crutcher’s controversial and acclaimed novel follows a group of outcasts as they take on inequality and injustice in their high school. "Crutcher's superior gifts as a storyteller and his background as a working therapist combine to make magic in Whale Talk. The thread of truth in his fiction reminds us that heroes can come in any shape, color, ability or size, and friendship can bridge nearly any divide.”—Washington Post T.J. Jones hates the blatant preferential treatment jocks receive at his high school, and the reverence paid to the varsity lettermen. When he sees a member of the wrestling team threatening an underclassman, T.J. decides he’s had enough. He recruits some of the biggest misfits at Cutter High to form a swim team. They may not have very much talent, but the All-Night Mermen prove to be way more than T.J. anticipated. As the unlikely athletes move closer to their goal, these new friends might learn that the journey is worth more than the reward. For fans of Andrew Smith and Marieke Nijkamp. "Crutcher offers an unusual yet resonant mixture of black comedy and tragedy that lays bare the superficiality of the high-school scene. The book's shocking climax will force readers to re-examine their own values and may cause them to alter their perception of individuals pegged as 'losers.'"—Publishers Weekly An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Features a new afterword by Chris Crutcher
Download or read book Whale Squad Group Whale written by Schuhboutique Doris Finke and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great design to fit your style. 105 pages in softcover. One week on one double page. For all appointments, notes and tasks you want to note down and not forget. For 1 year - 52 weeks. Universal calendar for every year possible and also to start during the year. Date can be entered manually. 10 date fields per day and one note field.
Download or read book Whales Work Together written by Clara Coleman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whales are known for working together, often when hunting for food. Orcas use teamwork to herd fast-swimming fish into groups so they�re easier to catch. Sperm whales use a similar technique. Humpback whales work in teams of up to 20 whales using a method called bubble-net feeding to catch their prey. Beautiful, full-color photographs on every page make this an exciting introduction to the ways whales interact with each other to survive. This exciting elementary life-science topic will inspire even reluctant young readers.
Download or read book Whales written by Lisa Rao and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about whales, including such items as how they eat, how they protect themselves from predators, their mating cycle, and why some of them migrate.
Download or read book Humpback Whale written by Emily O'Keefe and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humpback whales use unique songs to communicate throughout the world's oceans. But whaling and other threats almost silenced humpback whales completely. Humpback Whales describes the characteristics of these animals and how bans on whale hunting and other efforts have helped save this distinctive species. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Story of Three Whales written by Giles Whittell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the concerted efforts of an international team of concerned people eased the suffering of three gray whales trapped by ice off the coast of Alaska and eventually helped two of them back to the open sea.
Download or read book Whale Hunting written by Tom Searcy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the ancient Inuit whale hunt as a metaphor for big sales, Whale Hunting gives you a clear nine-phase model for successfully finding, landing, and harvesting whale-sized sales accounts—the kind of sales that transform your business. Here, you’ll learn how to turn the dangerous endeavor of selling to large companies and big contracts into a strategy for continued success and growth. Stop wasting time with little accounts and start landing monster accounts.
Download or read book A Mississippi Whale Tale written by M. Samuelson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two pygmy killer whales find themselves on a South Mississippi marsh bank, hundreds of miles from their deep-water home. A blistering sun, twisting streams, and towering grass surround them. Their survival seems bleak at best until a fisherman happens to see them stranded and unable to swim. He calls the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies Stranding hotline, and their odds for survival turn from dark to hopeful with their successful release.
Download or read book Annual Report to Congress written by United States. Marine Mammal Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dolphin and Whale Pods written by Louise Spilsbury and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the ocean, the members of dolphin and whale pods function together as an organized group. Readers will learn how they hunt, travel, and communicate with each other, even over large distances. Easy-to-follow text is accompanied by beautiful underwater photography.
Download or read book The Breath of a Whale written by Leigh Calvez and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ode to marine life and the natural world, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Owls This “intimate and spirited” essay collection “offers us the whale watch most of us can only dream of” as they reveal the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean—home to orcas, humpbacks, blue, gray, and sperm whales (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus). Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. Calvez author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.
Download or read book The Search for the Right Whale written by Scott D. Kraus and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a team of New England Aquarium scientists as they follow and study migrating North Atlantic right whales and speculates about the future survival of this endangered species.
Download or read book A Pod of Whales written by Lucia Raatma and published by Pebble. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a group of whales live together, it's called a pod. Learn about life inside a pod of whales and why these animals like to stick together. Find out how living together with others helps whales hunt for food, communicate with one another, and raise their young.
Download or read book The Sea Is the Best Place for a Whale written by Amy Larsen and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mike Alex Parts 3 and 4 written by Peter van Wermeskerken and published by Peter van Wermeskerken. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Star review on OnlineBookClub. “Generally, the stories are really excellent, being both educational and entertaining,” was the spontaneous response of this book's editor, Jack Turner, after completing his work. The book is now available to several reviewers. You can also read their assessment here. Mike & Alex is a series of children's books for children aged 6-12. We've taken into account the age at which children start to read, using a clear and somewhat larger font and ample line spacing. The educational aspect of the three interconnected stories is largely in the description of the animals' life behavior but also in the explanations and maps of different places in the world. The 'entertainment' factor is a key component, with engaging topics like cleaning the seas and a captivating method of description. This approach has been well-received in my first book, 'Double Spy, an autobiography', published in 2014. In this book, the French bunny Jean-Pierre finds our main characters. Mike is a giant rabbit, and Alex is a large wild boar. They have helped animals many times when they were suffering from human behavior. In this book, for example, they help whale Wally get rid of a harpoon in his back. As a thank you, Wally offers them a world cruise with him. It is luxuriously furnished for this purpose. Once on their journey, they are called upon to do something against the whalers at the South Pole. They notice that they have made the whales angry. Then the tuna come to Puck and Evert to complain about all the people's dirt in the world's oceans. Our friends devise a solution for this, where the garbage is deposited back on people's doorsteps.
Download or read book The Whale Scientists written by Fran Hodgkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Marine Mammal Commission written by United States. Marine Mammal Commission and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
