When plants attack : strange and terrifying plants / Rebecca E. Hirsch.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2019]Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781541526709
- 1541526708
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 581.659 H669 | Available | 33111009365087 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 581.659 H669 | Available | 33111009672581 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Science writer and plant expert Rebecca E. Hirsch presents fun and gross facts about a variety of plants along with explaining the science behind why they do what they do. Featured plants include the Venus Flytrap, an African tree that houses stinking ants to protect itself from hungry animals, a "vampire vine" that sucks nutrients from other plants, and fiendishly invasive kudzu.
Age 9-14.
Grade 4 to 6.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47) and index.
Beware the killer plants! -- Stinging tree -- The ants rush out -- A deadly squeeze -- Slippery pit of doom -- Stinking deception -- The bird catcher -- Attack of the vampire vine -- Creeping, climbing invader -- The quest for survival.
Introduces the reader to stinging plants, poisonous plants and plants that eat animals.