turtles

Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

Presents a photographic introduction to turtles, tortoises, and terrapins, explaining what they are, looking at their physical bodies, discussing how they live, and exploring the question of whether they will survive the loss of habitats, the theft of eggs, and over-hunting.

Franklin has to decide what he likes best about his neighborhood.

Discusses the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, modern species, life cycle, and endangered status of sea turtles.

Tortoise and Hare race along a road filled with traffic signs while the other animals cheer them on.

The story of a monkey and a turtle who plant a banana plant together.

An introduction to the habits and physical characteristics of many different kinds of turtles.

Franklin couln';t seem to please anybody or do anything right. He decided that no one cared and he would run away.

Examines the characteristics of desert tortoises, noting the differences between males and females, and discusses their eating habits, mating, birth and growth, hibernation, life span, and threats to their survival.

Introduces the basics of telling time, using examples from the daily life of different types of turtles.