Peter Brown
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Cuando Roz abre los ojos por primera vez, descubre que está sola en una isla remota y salvaje. No tiene idea de cómo llegó ahí o con qué propósito, pero sabe que necesita sobrevivir.
Después de enfrentarse a una feroz tormenta y escapar del ataque de un oso, se da cuenta de que su única oportunidad para sobrevivir es adaptándose a sus alrededores y aprendiendo de los demás habitantes, aunque estos nos sean los más amigables.
Cuando trata...
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Wild robot volume 1
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Audiobooks - Kids & Youth
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Science Fiction and Fantasy
Audiobooks - Kids & Youth
Audiobooks - Kids & Youth
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After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
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Wild robot volume 3
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect: wild, natural, harmonious. Her son Brightbill has even found a mate! But then, one day an injured seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing toward the island and soon the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. And when the robot discovers that her...
8) Chowder
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Chowder the bulldog has never fit in with the other neighborhood canines, but he sees a chance to make friends with the animals at the local petting zoo.
10) Creepy carrots!
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Creepy tales! volume 1
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The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
11) Creepy crayon!
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Creepy tales! volume 3
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"When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated--at first"--
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"To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners....
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When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust, typhoons, tidal waves, mosquitoes, and other perils of man...