101 Freaky Animals

101 Freaky Animals
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780545237581

101 Freaky Animals reveals the planet's most unusual animals! From the blobfish to the axolotil, each page has simple blocks of text, numbered facts, kid-friendly information, and full-colour photographs of 101 of the most bizarre animals on Earth.

101 Animal Superpowers

101 Animal Superpowers
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545829291

Find out which creatures in the animal kingdom have the coolest superpowers in this new book in the 101 Animal series! Discover some of the most extraordinary creatures in nature! This book takes a close look at 101 of the coolest tricks and superpowers in the animal kingdom. Find out how these animals' superpowers work and what they use them for--both to hunt and to protect themselves! Organized from A to Z, meet insects, reptiles, mammals, birds, and fish, all that have amazing super-abilities!

101 Animal Records

101 Animal Records
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780606315050

A compendium of amazing records from the animal kingdom describes such extreme examples as the colossal size and weight of the blue whale and the poisonous venom of a sea wasp.

Freaky Animal Stories

Freaky Animal Stories
Author: Michael Canfield
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1482429500

Animals are a wild and wonderful part of our world. However, some animals and their stories are a little wilder than others! This fascinating book explores some of the animal kingdom’s freakiest specimens and strangest scenarios—like the true tale of a two-headed housecat named “Frankenlouie,” and of a chicken named Mike who lived for 18 months after getting his head chopped off! High-interest subject matter and amazingly freaky photographs will captivate readers, and enthralling sidebars and fact boxes present even more unbelievable—but true!—information about some of the most outrageous animals on Earth.

Ugly Animals

Ugly Animals
Author: Gilda Berger
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545346630

The New York Times started a new phenomenon: ugly is the new black. After publishing an article entitled "A Masterpiece of Nature? Yuck!" that chronicled several of the world's ugliest animals (sphynx cat, star-nosed mole, proboscis monkey, etc.), they were bombarded by loyal readers who sent in their own pictures of ugly animals. Each one trying to out-ugly the last. Little did they know that we were way ahead of them! With 101 Animal Secrets and 101 Freaky Animals, the Bergers have already brought to light some of the ugliest animals on the planet. Now they have concentrated their efforts to compile the definitive list of the ugliest animals ever!

101 Hidden Animals

101 Hidden Animals
Author: Melvin Berger
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545670187

Discover the 101 most amazing disguises in the animal kingdom! The fifth book in the 101 ANIMAL series, 101 ANIMALS IN HIDING, will feature some of the most extraordinary creatures in nature. Featuring large full-color photos of camouflaged animals, see insects, reptiles, mammals, birds, and fish blend into their backgrounds. Learn how and why these amazing animals have developed these adaptations.

Bunny

Bunny
Author: Mona Awad
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525559744

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Dog Days of School

Dog Days of School
Author: Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1484717325

Charlie thinks his dog, Norman, has got it good: he gets to spend his days lounging on the couch or playing fetch, and he never has to do any homework. But when Charlie makes a wish to be a dog instead of a boy, things get a little topsy-turvy! New York Times best-selling author Kelly DiPucchio's signature humor and Brian Biggs's bold, playful illustrations come together in a hilarious tale that proves that the grass always does look greener on the other side (even if that side involves drinking from the toilet!).

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1990-09-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393245209

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

Leave the World Behind

Leave the World Behind
Author: Rumaan Alam
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062667653

Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?