Amazing plant powers : how plants fly, fight, hide, hunt, & change the world / Loreen Leedy & Andrew Schuerger.
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TextPublisher: New York : Holiday House, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780823422562
- 0823422569
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Go beyond the basics of botany with this introduction to the strangest, coolest things plants can do.
You might already know that plants can turn light into food-- but did you know that some plants have to bend or climb to get to the light?
Join Spike E. Prickles, the charistmatic cactus host of this book, to learn about all the incredible things plants can do. From wet swamps to dry deserts to the arctic tundra, plants have adapted in a wide variety of ways to survive in all kinds of environment.
Bold photographs and bright illustrations highlight all sorts of surprising plant powers: defending themselves with sharp spines, regrowing from small cuttings, hiding from predators, surviving forest fires, and much more! Amazing Plant Powers is a fun, kid-friendly introduction to the wide, wild world of plants-- and why we need them.
Includes a glossary of important terms, and suggestions for fun plant projects readers can try on their own.
Elementary Grade.
Accelerated Reader 3.7.
Reading Counts! 3.7.
770 Lexile.
Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile environments that are numbingly cold or stiflingly hot, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.