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Pub. Date
c2006
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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...
22) Winter world
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A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction. Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 17
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"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient...
25) The solar war
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"We thought the war was over. We were wrong. They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the grid has returned, and they won’t stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity’s last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything. After the Long Winter, Emma Matthews and James Sinclair...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When the icy continent splits in two, separating Manny from his family, he sets off with Sid and Diego to find a land bridge that will reunite them, but before long they run into a rowdy group of pirates.
Scrat's constant quest for an acorn causes a shift in the ice. Manny, Sid, and Diego end up stranded on an iceberg in the middle of the sea. A group of misfit pirates are determined to stop the trio from ever returning home.
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c2014
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"Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In 'Dark winter,' author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. Casey's research into the Sun's activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in the discovery of a solar cycle that is now reversing from its global warming phase...
32) Snowfall
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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Catania Olsen works as a doctor and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great wall of ice in what was once Colorado, and as she struggles to help her group survive the New Ice Age, she risks both her life and her place in society.
34) Ice age giants
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Introduces the animals of the Ice Ages, including the woolly mammoth, giant wombat, and cave bear; provides maps showing where fossils of each have been found; and compares the size of each to man.
35) Flood geology
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Pub. Date
♭2007
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"The earth today carries many remnants and signposts of the great Flood of Noah. Massive fields of fossils buried suddenly, weather patterns recorded in polar ice, continent-wide layers of sediment that are uncovered today as rock layers--all echo the worldwide judgment of God as recorded in Genesis."--Container.
37) Ice ages
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©1983
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Five photographic essays and five chapters on ice ages for the general reader.
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First North Americans volume 14
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This is the sweeping saga of a visionary boy who led his people out of the path of one of the worst catastrophes in the history of the world, and the brave little girl who loved him enough to believe in his dream.
40) Enemy tribe
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Ancestors saga volume 4
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The breathtaking story that has enthralled readers from around the world. Continue your epic adventure 40,000 years into our own dark and forgotten past with The Last Kamaali, the concluding novel in The Ancestors Saga.
Courage. Truth. Sacrifice.
Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of...