Across the Great Barrier
Title | Across the Great Barrier PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545033438 |
In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities--and those of her twin brother--to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
The Great Barrier Reef
Title | The Great Barrier Reef PDF eBook |
Author | Len Zell |
Publisher | Murdoch Books Limited |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781743361795 |
Produced in partnership with the BBCs The Great Barrier Reef television series, the book takes you on a journey along 2,300km of Australias north-eastern coastline, through the diverse range of habitats that make up this extraordinary water world. "Author from UJCOOK.
Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?
Title | Where Is the Great Barrier Reef? PDF eBook |
Author | Nico Medina |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0399541896 |
In this Where Is? title, kids can explore the Great Barrier Reef—big enough to be seen from space but made up of billions of tiny living organisms. The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, is the world's largest coral reef system. Stretching more than 1,400 miles, it provides a home to a wide diversity of creatures. Designated a World Heritage Site, the reef is suffering from the effects of climate change but this fascinating book shows this spectacular part of our planet.
The Great Barrier Thief
Title | The Great Barrier Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Pillans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2022-02-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780648964049 |
This story illustrates the impacts of climate change on our Great Barrier Reef. It is told through the eyes of a feisty fish called Anthia who starts to see the disappearing colours of the reef as a warning sign that the reef is in trouble
Thirteenth Child
Title | Thirteenth Child PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-05 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 9780606150149 |
With wit and wonder, #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Wrede creates an alternate history of westward expansion in an amazing new trilogy about the use of magic in the Wild West.
The Everything Kids' Geography Book
Title | The Everything Kids' Geography Book PDF eBook |
Author | Jane P. Gardner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2009-01-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1598696831 |
Introduces children to geographical concepts, map reading, and miscellaneous facts about the countries of the world.
The Great Barrier Reef
Title | The Great Barrier Reef PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Daley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-07-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 113593441X |
The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.