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"Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the ice ages. But how do you figure out what a mammoth is if you have no concept of extinction, ice ages, or fossils? Long after the last mammoth died and was no longer part of the human diet, it still played a role in human life. Cultures around the world interpreted the remains of mammoths through the lens of their own...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"With its massive tusks and long trunk, the woolly mammoth was the early ancestor of today's elephants. Readers learn about this prehistoric packyderm and its home during the Ice Age from engaging text and colorful illustrations reviewed by Smithsonian experts"--
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The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species-the woolly mammoth.
With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating and true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. A group of scientists work to make fantasy reality...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Have you heard the news? Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back in an all-new holiday adventure for the whole family! When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's 'naughty list, ' he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world! Bonus features included....
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
7) Ice age
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Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Sam and her father scrape by caring for rescued elephants until an offer comes through that may not only save the sanctuary, it may also restore an extinct species. Includes facts about woolly mammoths and cloning.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
11) The ice monster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This rhyming non-fiction picture book tells about Thomas Jefferson's quest to find a woolly mammoth to disprove French Count Buffon's assertion that the animals of the New World are weak"--
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