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1) Baboons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Full-color photographs and simple text introduce baboons"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Everyone wants to have someone to count on when the going gets tough. Often it's family. But in the animal world, support sometimes come from unlikely places. African elephants and olive baboons have formed a surprising mutualistic relationship that helps carry them through difficult times. Young readers will delight in what they learn about these two animals and the bond they share in this engaging volume. Age-appropriate text highlights important...
4) Baboons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces baboons to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.
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Bravelands. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A new Great Father now rules over the animals of Bravelands, but he is not what he seems, and unless the elephant Sky, the baboon Thorn, and the lion Fearless can fight his lies and unite the animals of the plains, the balance of Bravelands may be destroyed forever"--
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Bravelands. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A false leader has been destroyed--but Bravelands is still in grave danger. Stinger's death should have brought peace to the land, but no Great Parent has stepped forward, and now the fate of Bravelands hangs in the balance. With a mysterious threat lurking in their midst, all members of the Great Herd must find the strength to walk the right path or risk the end of Bravelands forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Mr. Thundermug is the inventive, entertaining, and-against all odds-poignant story of an animal who acquires the ability to eloquently speak human language. Using his own beautiful, eerie lithograph illustrations, Cornelius Medvei places us in a vivid world that is both familiar and alien. It's a world in which Mr. Thundermug and his family take up occupancy in an abandoned apartment building. On the roof of that building, Mr. Thundermug gazes at...
9) Baboons
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Discusses the physical characteristics of the Baboons, their behaviors and habits, their habitats, and how humans have to help them to survive.
10) Code of honor
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"After an act of betrayal rocks the Bravelands, baboon Thorn must find a way to confront treachery in his own troop, while elephant Sky searches for answers and lion Fearless contends with the usurper who conquered his father's pride"--
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English
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From the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects -- unique and compelling characters in their own right -- and he returns to them...
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University of Chicago Press
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English
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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke." Fifteen years ago, following the extraordinary success of their How Monkeys See the World, Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth set out to take up Darwin's challenge. Baboon Metaphysics is their fascinating response. Cheney and Seyfarth set up camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where they could intimately observe baboons and their social...
13) Oathkeeper
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At long last, the Great Herd is united against Titan -- now so powerful that even Fearless, who vowed to avenge his father's death, cannot defeat the rogue lion alone. Thorn may have a plan to bring about Titan's downfall, but the animals of Bravelands must decide how much they are willing to risk--and who they are willing to lose.
"With the balance of Bravelands at a breaking point, the Great Herd must risk everything to unite against their common...
14) Leyla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
15) Broken pride
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A lion cast out from his tribe. An elephant who can read the bones of the dead. A baboon rebelling against his destiny. Together, they must heed the call of the wild. For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes.
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Animal antics A to Z volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Bobby Baboon brings bananas to give to his classmates at Alpha Betty's school, and, with the help of some friends, he figures out that he can share the extras.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Kepi, a young girl in ancient Egypt, embarks on a journey to save her family when she is unexpectedly taken captive, along with the baby baboon she has rescued from a crocodile. An origin tale about fairies.
19) Baboon troop
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This title explains what a baboon troop is and what baboons living in a group do to help one another. For instance, baboons groom each other and make loud calls when danger is near to warn others in the troop. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
"As the new Great Father, the young baboon, Thorn, hopes to guide Bravelands to peace after a period of great turmoil. But a pack of rogue wolves lurks among the Great Herd, committing acts so evil they threaten to shatter that peace before it's even begun. The animals of the Great Herd must once again unite to defend...