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Books in Skylight Book series

  • The Strange Armadillo

    Wyatt Blassingame

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Aug. 1, 1983)
    Discusses the characteristics and habits of the nine-banded armadillo of the United States and its particular connection to leprosy research. Also presents facts about the nineteen other armadillo species and their cousins, the sloths and the anteaters.
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  • Scorpions

    Charlene Billings

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, March 1, 1983)
    Discusses members of the order Scorpionida, the lobster-shaped venomous arachnids that thrive the world over, including their physiology, life cycle, habits, and behavior.
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  • Wild Sky: A Night Sky novel

    Suzanne Brockmann, Melanie Brockmann

    Hardcover (Sourcebooks Fire, Oct. 6, 2015)
    Destiny has chosen Skylar. Now it might destroy her.Skylar is a girl with extraordinary power. A girl with a mission to use her Greater-Than gifts to stop the makers of Destiny from getting people hooked on their deadly drug. But Sky is still mastering her new abilities, and her first mission to destroy a Destiny lab leaves her best friend addicted to the drug. For a few days Cal will be able to walk again ? until it kills him. Time is running out for Sky to save the world without sacrificing her friends, to become truly Greater-Than...New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann have written a pulse-pounding novel set in a near future both fantastic and frightening.Praise for Night Sky: "Action-packed, mysterious, charming and witty. I'm ready for more!"-Gena Showalter, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Alice in Zombieland "Original and exciting, Night Sky propels readers into a dangerous future. Loved it."-Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series "Full of adventure, humor, and just the right amount of Brockmann wit and humor. I love this book!"-P.C. Cast, New York Times bestselling co-author of The House of Night series. "A gripping page-turner from first to last...The start of something that can only be described as 'greater-than.'"-Kirkus STARRED Review"Bestseller Brockmann takes readers on a pulse-pounding ride...pulls readers in from page one."-Publishers Weekly
  • Gibbons

    Patricia Hunt

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Sept. 1, 1983)
    Text and photographs explore the life cycle of the acrobatic gibbons and follow a gibbon family through a typical day in its territory
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  • Hyenas

    Alice Lightner Hopf

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Sept. 1, 1983)
    An introduction to the commonly misunderstood hyena, a somewhat dog-like relative of the civet and the mongoose which has undeservedly become one of the most hated creatures in Africa.
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  • The Loon: Voice of the Wilderness

    Charlene W. Billings

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Oct. 1, 1988)
    Follows a pair of common loons from spring mating to fall migration and discusses the survival problems facing the "great northern diver."
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  • Tigers

    Patricia Hunt

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1981)
    Covers the various species, noting that individual tigers have distinctive facial markings, discusses the tiger's courtship and mating habits and how they raise their young, and describes efforts to preserve these animals
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  • The Digging Badger

    Kathryn A. Minta

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Sept. 1, 1985)
    Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the North American badger and its realtives.
  • It's Snowing!

    Margaret Cosgrove

    Hardcover (Dodd Mead, Feb. 1, 1986)
    Discusses the qualities of snow, how it is made, and how it can be helpful or dangerous for people, animals, and plants.
  • Bats

    Alice Lightner Hopf, Merlin D. Tuttle

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, May 1, 1985)
    Describes the characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common and unusual bats, the only mammals that fly.
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  • Porcupines

    Wyatt Blassingame

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Aug. 1, 1982)
    Examines the life and habits of the porcupine, concentrating on the familiar species which is found almost everywhere in North America, except in the southeastern United States.
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  • Grizzly Bears

    John L. Weaver

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, Oct. 1, 1982)
    Follows the life of three Rocky Mountain grizzly bear cubs with their mother during the first fifteen months after their birth.
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