As they work together to learn about the creature that Ben had found and to help others like it to survive, Ben, Kate, and Foster also gain a sense of their own individual abilities.
Photographs and text help readers decipher the differences between geckos and salamanders, describing the physical features, behaviors, habitats, and other unique attributes of each species.
A guide to keeping salamanders as pets, looking at the history of the amphibians, different species, and the life cycles of salamanders, and discussing housing and food needs, health, and behavior.
A boy and his parents go out into the rainy spring night to help salamanders cross a busy road on their annual migration to the vernal pools in which they breed. Includes glossary and facts about the life cycle of the salamander.
When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
