Books with title Copperheads

Hissssss! Watch out for that snake! This book takes adventurous readers on a quest into the world of the copperhead. Students will discover a slithery way of life as they learn about the copperhead's impressive size, fearsome fangs, and special senses such as its inner ears. Full-color photos give kids an opportunity to identify these poisonous reptiles by their beautiful scale colors and patterns. Readers will also observe how clever copperheads use their natural camouflage to disappear from sight! A range map supplements chapter information about the surprising places these pit vipers live. Bolded glossary terms, phonetic spellings, and an index compliment the chapter text. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Correlated directly to grades K-6 curriculum in the life sciences, this series describes the natural habitat of six snakes that live in North America. Students will learn fun facts about these fascinating snakes in the reptile class and how to identify different species. They will learn about the behavior of eastern and western coral snakes, what and when they like to hunt for their meals, and from what diamondbacks' rattles are made. Readers will also learn about why copperheads and cottonmouths are born with yellow tails that change to gray when they become older. They will read about how many bones are in the back of a king snake and how milk snakes got their name. Each book includes a range map. fact boxes, and full-color photographs. Copperheads are shy, poisonous snakes. The copper color of this snake's head gives the snake its name. Students will learn about the Five kinds of copperheads that live in North America. They will also learn about this pit viper's catlike pupils, its heat-sensitive pits, and its movable fangs that shoot venom into prey.

Set in an alternate version of early 1900s England, Copperhead is the sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut.Helen Huntingdon is beautiful―so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask.Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face―and now has to cover her face with iron so she won't be taken over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey.Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Alistair, she lives at the edges of her life, secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy procedure turns deadly, Jane goes missing―and is implicated in a murder.Meanwhile, Alistair's influential clique Copperhead―whose emblem is the poisonous copperhead hydra―is out to restore humans to their "rightful" place, even to the point of destroying the dwarvven who have always been allies.Helen is determined to find her missing sister, as well as continue the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her own husband―and when she meets an enigmatic young revolutionary―she's pushed to discover how far she'll bend society's rules to do what's right. It may be more than her beauty at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart.