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Iguanas: A Guide to Their Biology and Captive Care

Science & Math

Townsend, Wendy

Frye, Frederic L.

Nature & Ecology

Krieger Pub. Co

The Sundown Rule

Louise and her dad live an idyllic life surrounded by nature. When he gets an assignment to go to Brazil to write an article for a magazine, Louise has to go live in a suburb with her aunt and uncle, leaving her cat, Cash, behind, since Aunt Kay is allergic to animals. Her dad says that it will be for only six weeks, and that everything will be okay. But it isn't, especially when Cash gets hit by a car and dies. And when a new friend's dad shoots a crow for no reason. And when her own dad gets sick, really sick, and might not be coming home. Like her previous book, "Lizard Love", Wendy Townsend's finely observed story of a girl's love of all things wild and free is a powerful testimony to our natural world.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

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When I was little I had all kinds of tanks and fish bowls in my room that I set up for the animals I found in the woods and in Marl Lake. I caught snails and dragonfly larvae and crawdads and tadpoles so I could have my own Marl Lake right in my room. I brought in so many animals Dad made a rule called the sundown rule, which said that by sundown I had to let every animal go in the place where I’d found him. Louise and her dad live an idyllic life surrounded by nature. When he gets an assignment to go to Brazil to write an article for a magazine, Louise has to go live in a suburb with her aunt and uncle, leaving her cat, Cash, behind, since Aunt Kay is allergic to animals. Her dad says that it will be for only six weeks, and that everything will be okay. But it isn't, especially when Cash gets hit by a car and dies. Or when a new friend's dad shoots a crow for no reason. Or when her own dad gets sick, really sick, and might not be coming home. Like her previous book, Lizard Love, Wendy Townsend's finely observed story of a girl's love of all things wild and free is a powerful testimony to our natural world.

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

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Lizard Love

Historical Fiction

By her junior year of high school, Clarice knows that her sensitivity to animals makes her different from other kids-and not necessarily in a good way. She hasn't gotten her driver's license because she worries about hitting frogs and turtles in the road. She causes a scene in biology class when the teacher is about to cut open a living frog. Even little kids can draw her wrath: she reacts swiftly and angrily when a playmate of her autistic brother, Joe, casually tears Joe's pet millipede in two.   Then her school counselor suggests that Clarice do volunteer work for wildlife conservation over the summer. Online, she discovers BIRP, the Blue Iguana Recovery Program, and a few weeks later she is on her way to Grand Cayman Island to join fi eld biologists and volunteers at an iguana preserve. When catastrophe strikes, Clarice is forced to come to terms with cruelty beyond her worst imaginings-and fi nds a place for herself in the effort to protect an extraordinary, and extraordinarily vulnerable, species.

Blue Iguana

"That night I do a pretty good job of sketching Billy’s face. He is like a dinosaur, alive here and now, so animated and yet so other. His eyes seem to ask, Who are you? I remember Joe when he was two and I was eleven. I toted him around on my hip. I loved the feel of his arms and legs clinging to me, and I loved feeling like I was protecting him. I’d imagine holding on tight and fighting off a wild dog." By her junior year of high school, Clarice knows that her sensitivity to animals makes her different from other kids—and not necessarily in a good way. She hasn’t gotten her driver’s license because she worries about hitting frogs and turtles in the road. She causes a scene in biology class when the teacher is about to cut open a living frog. Even little kids can draw her wrath: she reacts swiftly and angrily when a playmate of her autistic brother, Joe, casually tears Joe’s pet millipede in two. Then her school counselor suggests that Clarice do volunteer work for wildlife conservation over the summer. Online, she discovers BIRP, the Blue Iguana Recovery Program, and a few weeks later she is on her way to Grand Cayman Island to join fi eld biologists and volunteers at an iguana preserve. When catastrophe strikes, Clarice is forced to come to terms with cruelty beyond her worst imaginings—and fi nds a place for herself in the effort to protect an extraordinary, and extraordinarily vulnerable, species.

Grace’s true home is her grandparents’ farm where she revels in the outdoors and its reptilian wildlife, so when she and her mother move to New York City, the eighth grader refuses to accept her new surroundings. Her one solace is assisting in the reptile shop Fang & Claw with kindred spirit Walter, the owner’s son, who gives Grace a prized iguana. Her friend Cathy introduces Nick, another reptile fan, but Grace often brusquely resists their company, preferring her reptiles. Her feelings of disconnectedness multiply when she visit her grandparents and discovers them enjoying an indoor lifestyle after selling much of their land to developers. Grace begins to mature but detests her changing body, causing her to withdraw further and hurt others, especially Walter. Grace ponders her actions and considers who she wishes to become, and begins taking baby steps toward a more fulfilling future.

A startling debut novel about a girl growing into a woman, kicking and screaming every step of the way. Grace's life was perfect in Mooresville at her grandparents' home. Nature was close at hand, and she could explore it endlessly. But Grace and her mother move to New York City, where nature has been paved over and left to die. Grace hates the city and all it represents . . . until she discovers a pet shop run by a toad-ugly boy and his father and which is full of exotic creatures, none more so than Spot, an iguana. Grace spends every minute she can at the pet shop, especially as she realizes that she doesn't fit in at school and she can't stand the city streets where men and boys are starting to notice her. Grace doesn't like what's happening to her body and the attention it's drawing. Even when she goes back to Mooresville for a summer break, she discovers that things aren't the same. So there is nothing to be done except return to the city and confront who she is, what she is becoming, and deal with it. I looked up into the dark gold eye of a big lizard, calmly looking back at me. I caught my breath—he was the most wonderful creature I could ever imagine. He had a great spiky crest and a black-banded tail hanging down and scales around his head and shoulders like jewels of all different sizes and shades of green, turquoise and bronze. One of his feet draped over the edge and each long toe had a curved claw at the tip. … I slid my hands underneath his body and took him in my arms. … His tail went down past my waist. He flicked my cheek with his tongue and I put my face closer to his and breathed in. —FROM THE BOOK

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Iguanas: A Guide to Their Biology and Captive Care

The Sundown Rule

The Sundown Rule

Lizard Love

Blue Iguana

Blue Iguana

Lizard Love

Lizard Love