deserts

"After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. In her early twenties, Alice's life is thrown into upheaval again, forcing her to flee to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man"--Provided by publisher.

Photos, text, and sidebars describe how animals adapt to the challenging climates of Earth's four desert biomes--hot, semiarid, coastal, and cold.

"Billie is off on a great desert adventure! Will her magic carpet help her escape the forty furious thieves?"--.

Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the plants and animals that live in the desert.

Alone in the arid African desert landscape, danger surrounds you. Can you survive hungry, ferocious lions, herds of stampeding gazelles, and an angry black rhino?.

In rhyming text, the Cat in the Hat explores world's deserts, describing the adaptive qualities of the plants and animals that live in deserts, and explaining how sand dunes form, why people see mirages, and more.

Simple text and photographs introduce deserts.

An introduction to deserts, discussing what they are, describing their plant and animal life, and looking at different world deserts, including the Gobi, the Sahara, and the Mojave.

With peace restored in Balbadd, Aladdin and his friends have begun training in Sindria, the land of King Sinbad. With the rise of Al-Thamen, an organization dedicated to spreading evil around the world, there is much to do.

When Alibaba's old friend Cassim transforms into a Dark Djinn that threatens everyone in Balbadd, Alibaba and Sinbad battle against him, while even more enemies wait for their chance to pounce.