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Nature's Mysteries

Curious blind elementary students will find our Nature's Mysteries Braille books informative and interesting, full of answers, and totally captivating.

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9 books on this shelf.

How Bats See in the Dark

by Malcolm Penny, 21 pages . Discusses how bats, with their poor vision, use echo-location - creating their own sounds and listening for echoes from nearby stationary objects and moving insects - to move about safely and hunt for...

Item Number: 4471

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How Bees Make Honey

by Michael Chinery, 23 pages . Chinery includes information about bees' anatomy, life cycle, enemies, nectar gathering, and related topics. Not surprisingly, though, you'll also learn how bees communicate and how they collect and s...

Item Number: 4472

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by Nick Williams, 17 pages . "This book takes a look at flight, investigating the internal and external design of birds' bodies, and uses examples and explanations to clarify the complexity of the topic. Thrust and drag, formatio...

Item Number: 4473

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How Caterpillars Turn into Butterflies

by Jill Bailey, 27 pages . Describes the life cycle of the butterfly, from the hatching of the caterpillar, through its struggle to survive, to its metamorphosis into a butterfly and the laying of its own eggs. For ages 8 to...

Item Number: 4474

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by Jill Bailey, 21 pages . "Bailey explores methods of locomotion and varied forms of swimming apparatuses of fish and other aquatic animals. Chapters on fish that fly and on deep-sea fishes will intrigue readers. Fish t...

Item Number: 4475

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How Insects Work Together

by Jill Bailey, 29 pages . "This book describes the lives of social insects - such as ants, wasps, honeybees, and termites - and tells how they work together and communicate in order to survive. The book is divided into a serie...

Item Number: 4476

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How Monkeys Talk

by Martin Banks, 23 pages . Explains how monkeys and other primates communicate, by means of facial expressions, vocal sounds, scents, and body language. For ages 8 to 11....

Item Number: 4477

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How Plants Grow

by Malcolm Penny, 23 pages . "Penny looks at the cycle of flowering, pollination, seed production, germination, growth, and a return to flowering that plants use to reproduce, revealing the fascinatingly diverse and often strange...

Item Number: 4478

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How Spiders Make Their Webs

by Linda Bailey, 23 pages . Describes different kinds of spiders, the types of webs they spin, and the various purposes these webs serve. Also outlines a variety of other creations spiders can make. For ages 8 to 11....

Item Number: 4479

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