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4) Esio trot
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
Author
Series
The Islanders volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.
7) Nim's island
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the efforts being made by scientists trying to save them.
Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch into part of the next generation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this graphic version of the classic fable there is a new contest at the spring festival--a robot battle--and Shelly the Tortoise is determined to build a robot that can defeat that perennial winner and all around jerk, Hunter the Hare--especially after he steals her prototype suit.
10) Sea turtles
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Introduces the reader to sea turtles."--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Told in dual flashbacks, this novel relates the stories of both Trevor Roberts, a British journalist-in-training, and Henry Friston, a World War I Royal Navy sailor. Assigned in the 1950s to cover the annual hibernation awakening of Ali Pasha, a giant tortoise and local celebrity owned by Henry, Trevor meets and connects with Henry who then shares his wartime photos, memorabilia, and diary as well as reminiscences of harrowing battles with Turkish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This book covers information (life cycle, appearance, habitat) about the leatherback sea turtle. Each chapter discusses an aspect of the turtle's life, comparing it to a similar reptile and to a very different reptile"--
14) Out of my shell
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While still upset that her parents have separated and that her father will not be joining their family vacation in Florida, twelve-year-old Olivia must decide if she has the courage to fight when the local sea turtle population is endangered.
Author
Publisher
Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On a school field trip to the local wetlands, Sandy wanders away from her classmates and discovers an empty turtle shell. Peeking into the shell, she suddenly finds herself within a magical new dimension. Filled with sculptures, paintings and books, the turtle's shell is a museum of the natural world. But one painting is incomplete, and the shell's mystery inhabitant needs Sandy's help to finish it ...
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