Discovery School - Jeff Corwin Experience: Amphibians

What allows these cold-blooded vertebrates to live in water and on land? Examine many different species of amphibians, including salamanders in Florida, the bufo marinus toad in California, the monkey frog in the Amazon, and the red-eyed tree frog and the blue jean frog in Costa Rica.

 Grade Level: 3 - 8

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Mark Twain - The Jumping Frog. (level 2)Mark Twain

"The Celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Curing a Cold" depict one of American history's most exciting periods: the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Come to Angel's Mining Camp in California and meet Smiley whose frog is a living gold mine until one day...And read about Mark Twain's amazing remedies for curing a cold.

The Wives of Henry Oades

An English accountant and his two wives are the subject of this intriguing and evocative debut novel based on a real-life 19th-century California bigamy case. A loving husband and attentive father, Henry Oades assures his wife, Margaret, that his posting to New Zealand will be temporary and the family makes the difficult journey. But during a Maori uprising, Margaret and her four children are kidnapped and the Oades's house is torched. Convinced his family is dead, Henry relocates to California and marries Nancy, a sad 20-year-old pregnant widow.

The Trench

Steve Alten - The Trench

Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter the perilous Mariana Trench, where the Megalodon shark has spawned since the dawn of time, and now that the monster is terrorizing the California coast, he must return to fight his ultimate battle.