Books with author Sandra Markle

Even before they're born, baby sharks have to be tough to survive. Some that grow inside their mothers compete with their womb-mates for food, space, and their very lives. Others have to escape as soon as their mothers give birth to avoid becoming her tasty snack. If they survive those rough beginnings, baby sharks then have to figure out how to make it in an ocean teeming with predators. Brilliant color photographs reveal how shark pups grow from tiny eggs into giant eating machines, reaching the top of the food chain in all the world's oceans. Science expert Sandra Markle's introduction to baby sharks provides rare glimpses of these creatures at their most vulnerable and will captivate young fans of nature's toughest creatures.

In the grasslands and dry deserts of Africa, spotted hyenas and brown hyenas are members of the cleanup crew that eats carrion―dead animals. They are able to digest rotting flesh that would make other animals sick. Armed with large powerful jaws, strong teeth capable of crushing bones, and an extremely keen sense of smell, they are ruthless scavengers. Watch these voracious eaters grow from tiny cubs into hungry adult hyenas.

In this new series by award-winning author Sandra Markle, famous explorers take a back seat to the animals they encountered along the way. While Robert Scott and his crew weren't the first to reach the South Pole, they were the first to see an emperor penguin breeding ground. Through nimble writing and beautiful paintings, this series casts the past in a whole new light!

The Last Alice by Sandra MarkleI’m not a bad person but I’ve done a very bad thing Lark Bingley wrestles with the tricky business of telling the truth or sticking to the lie she’s lived her entire life. In this future world she lives in, volcanic ash has driven the world’s remaining human population into domed cities where there are only limited resources--absolutely no paper or computers. The only books are the descendants of a great genetic experiment—people who are born with the inherited memory of a complete text of one book. Known as Books, these special souls are treated royally in return for performing at city gatherings. However, over time, even this special resource from the past has dwindled. Those remaining Books are commodities owned by their home cities and traded, when a great need arises. Lark’s twin sister Alice is believed to be the world’s rarest Book—a person with the genetically inherited text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. So, when her home city becomes desperate for essential supplies, those governing come up with a plan to auction her off as a bride, for which the city will receive a dowry price. To be fair, Lark will also be auctioned to give her an opportunity for a wealthy husband. But the snag in this plan—unknow to everyone except the twins—is that Alice isn’t a Book. She can only recite Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as Lark remembers the words and thinks them to her. Only Lark isn’t a Book either. She just has the uncanny ability to remember everything she hears and so she learned the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as her mother, a real Book, performed. Telling the truth at this late date, Alice insists will spoil everything—for everyone. Most of all, her.However, it may be that Lark remembers something even more valuable than this story. When Alice is being asked to recite passages on demand during the Bride Auction, a momentary memory glitch makes Lark give Alice a false line—something she remembers her inventor father telling her she must remember. And upon hearing her quote the powerful warlord Omari Kull is convinced Alice also knows the secret to a machine he’s spent a lifetime trying to activate—one that will him rule all of the remaining cities. But Kull loses the bidding war for Alice. So he kidnaps her. There’s no way left for Lark but to travel to Kull’s city. Then tell him the truth. Barter the rest of the secret memory her father entrusted to her for Alice’s life. She’s determined to do exactly that but the only one who can help her make the trek across the permanently frozen, fierce world between her home city and Kull’s is Eli Volt. He’s as wily as he is handsome man and Lark has secretly loved him as long as she can remember—so always. And, to her amazement, she learns he loves her too. Now, telling the truth means saving Alice but risks destroying her chance to claim love for herself. Worse, saving Alice thrusts Lark and Eli into a battle to save their home city beyond anything anyone could have imagined.

When Kate overhears a conversation at her mother's funeral, she is shocked. Could it be the grandfather she believed was dead is still alive and living only a few hours away in Cherokee, North Carolina? When she tracks her grandfather down, she learns he's very much alive but wants nothing to do with her or the world she comes from. Tsan, a full-blooded Cherokee, is determined to forget a disappointment-filled past by living alone on Snowbird Mountain. Tsan orders Kate to leave, but before she does, he's shot while trying to defend eagles from ruthless poachers. Kate rescues her grandfather and, a short time later, the eaglet whose parents were stolen by the poachers. Kate convinces Tsan to let her live with him for the summer while he recovers. As together they raise the orphaned eaglet, Tsan teaches Kate about her Cherokee heritage and she teaches him to trust loving again. When the poachers return for more eagles, Kate and Tsan join forces to save these majestic birds, but at what cost to their own lives?

Can you see that arachnid lurking on the goldenrod flower? It's a crab spider! In this book, you will learn how crab spiders are similar to and different from other arachnids. Close-up photographs and diagrams reveal extraordinary details about the crab spider's body both inside and out. A hands-on activity illustrates how a crab spider can quickly ambush a flying insect. Learn more about this fascinating member of nature's Arachnid World.

Did you ever wonder what makes a lion roar or how cats learn to hunt? How do mother cats take care of their babies? Did you know that some cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day? Or that many cats can jump up to ten times their height? How is your own cat related to a lion or a tiger?Outside and Inside Big Cats answers all these questions and many more. With astonishing full-color photographs of lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, and even ordinary house cats, and clear, accessible text, Sandra Markle invites curious readers to learn all about big cats -- from the inside out!

Dig into the lives of lions with Ranger Rick in this beginning reader with full-color photos of lions in the wild! What if you wished you were a lion? And then you became one? Could you eat like a lion? Sleep like a lion? Live in a lion family? And would you want to? Find out! This I Can Read book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 5 to 7 who are ready to read independently. It’s a fun way to keep your child engaged and as a supplement for activity books for children.Ranger Rick explorers can learn all about lions in this reader full of fascinating facts, vivid wildlife photographs, a Wild Words glossary, and a hands-on activity about practicing your lion-quick reflexes!Ranger Rick: I Wish I Was a Lion is a Level One I Can Read, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.