" ... This book changes field guide design to make you a better birder ... The most comprehensive guide : 640 stunning scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs ... Lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats ..."--P. [4] of cover.

"Seventh grader Eddie is determined honor his father's legacy and win the school science fair." --

"A Kid's Guide to Backyard Birds is filled with fascinating facts about the United States' most common birds, including where they live, what they eat, and how they sound when they sing! How did the Brown-Headed Cowbird get its name? and which bird can fly up to 40 miles per hour? Packed with over 80 full-color, gorgeous illustrations, this portable field guide will have burgeoning bird lovers excited about exploring the amazing world just outside...

"Ben Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he'd stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird--until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge. Desperate for photographs of the elusive tern, Ben hires a local field guide, Micah Weaver,...

"Join Steven the Bear and his friends the Bear Bunch on their first outdoor adventure camping and fun"--Back cover.

Identify Birds with New York's Best-Selling Bird Guide! Make bird-watching in New York even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guide, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This handy book features 126 species of New York birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you'll see them in nature, and...

Sneed Collard and his thirteen-year-old son Braden set out to establish their own personal Big Year bird species count record. From the killer bee-infested border region of southeast Arizona to the sultry islands of the Galapagos, Sneed shares the excitement, challenges, perils, and insights that come with crisscrossing the United States and beyond in search of some of Earth's most remarkable creatures. It's a father-and-son tale, in which the adventure...

"What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, life-affirming novel about what happens when a sister discovers that the brother she hasn't seen in more than a decade is homeless, and in reconnecting with him learns the true meaning of belonging, from the author of Little Big Love. When they were children, Emily and her brother Stephen were inseparable. Running wild through the marshes of Canvey Island, it was...

Margret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and living on the Upper West Side, the backdrop to Margret's life is made up of the poetic rhythms and colors of the Manhattan day: slow-running buses,...

"Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page [4] of cover.