Run, Sea Turtle, Run

Run, Sea Turtle, Run
Author: Stephen R Swinburne
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541578120

"Follow a hatchling's treacherous journey from nest to sea" --Amazon.

The Turtle Run

The Turtle Run
Author: Marie Evelyn
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783752696

She went in search of history and found her own future. Becky has lost her job and her direction in life so is thrilled when she gets the chance to go to Barbados and research the exiled Monmouth rebels. But the Caribbean paradise isn't all that it seems. The old plantation house is beautiful but lonely, and the locals are unfriendly. As her research becomes an obsession, one of the rebel descendants, who still works the same land as his ancestors, begins to get a hold on her mind. Is she living in a fantasy, or is this really an island of long memories? She soon finds that she is not the only one being led by the past...

Turtle's Song

Turtle's Song
Author: Alan Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780702231537

I am Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own. Award winning illustrator Kim Toft's magnificent silk painting perfectly capture the precarious life of the Green Turtle, while author Alan Brown's poignant, mythical story sounds a hymn to this ancient but now endangered creature.

Turtle's Race with Beaver

Turtle's Race with Beaver
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2005-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142404667

Turtle lives in a beautiful little pond with everything a happy turtle needs. But one spring, Turtle awakes from hibernation to discover that her lovely home has been invaded! A pushy beaver takes over Turtle's beloved pond and refuses to share. Instead, he challenges her to a race to determine who can stay. But how can a little turtle outswim a big, powerful beaver? This charming fable of brains versus brawn is a great read for all the young readers in the forest to share!

Sea Turtle Scientist

Sea Turtle Scientist
Author: Stephen R. Swinburne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547367554

This compelling addition to the award-winning Scientists in the Field series explores the leatherback sea turtle's remarkable natural history and recounts the extraordinary efforts by scientists trying to save them.

When Turtle Grew Feathers

When Turtle Grew Feathers
Author: Tim Tingle
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780874837773

Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, in which Turkey assists Turtle in defeating Rabbit.

Chase the Moon, Tiny Turtle

Chase the Moon, Tiny Turtle
Author: Kelly Jordan
Publisher: Page Street Kids
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781645671527

Young readers will witness rare and extraordinary natural event as a baby loggerhead hatches from its shell. With nothing but the light of the moon to act as a guide, readers will follow the newborn turtles’ harrowing attempts to outpace a series of predators on their march toward the glistening shore. After only narrowly avoiding hungry crabs, owls, and foxes, the turtle rides ocean waves to a calm clearing. Following a moment of peace in the still ocean water, the turtle joins the rest of its pack on a dive into the moonlit sea to continue the voyage home. Told with a beautiful, lyrical rhyming sequence, this book introduces readers to the birth cycle of a loggerhead sea turtle. Through the newborn turtle’s eyes, both kids and adults will marvel at the majestic, and sometimes dangerous seaside landscape from a perspective rarely seen before.

Beat the Turtle Drum

Beat the Turtle Drum
Author: Constance C. Greene
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1504000897

An ALA Notable Book and an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice: Losing your sister can mean losing your best friend too Thirteen-year-old Kate is thrilled for her sister, Joss, when Joss finds out she gets to keep a horse for a week as a birthday present. Then in one tragic moment, all of the happiness is gone, and numbness and grief overwhelm the family. Kate cannot imagine how she’ll survive but knows somehow she must come to terms with her loss. In this heart-wrenching story, Kate strives to find a place where joyful memories and painful loss can coexist.

Traditions of the Arikara

Traditions of the Arikara
Author: George Amos Dorsey
Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1904
Genre: History
ISBN: