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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Sea turtles"
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Sea turtles
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Gail Gibbons

Descended from enormous prehistoric creatures, sea turtles are fascinating. Hatched from eggs smaller than a baseball, some can grow to weigh over a thousand pounds. Once adults, they can live to be around 100 years old. And when it's time to nest, they migrate more than 1,000 miles. With colorful, clear illustrations and straightforward text, Gail Gibbons introduces the eight kinds of sea t…

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0439221196
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32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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597.9 GIB
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Turtle tide : the ways of sea turtles
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Stephen R. SwinburneBruce Hiscock

A mother turtle swims to shore. She digs a hole in a dune, where she lays one hundred eggs. Following her instinct, she covers the eggs with sand and slowly makes her way back to sea. What happens next, from eggs to hatchlings, is one of the most extraordinary occurrences in nature. The eggs provide food for other animals, and the eggs that survive produce hatchlings that, again, provide food f…

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9781590780817
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32 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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597.9 SWI