Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
by Sneed B. Collard, III
*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017*
Only a few dozen vertebrate animals... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2017
Word Count 2,877
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 980L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 189724, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Mammals--Flight--Juvenile literature
- Mammals
- Gliders (Mammals)
- Amphibians
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Zoology
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science
- Vertebrates--Juvenile literature
- Vertebrates
- Reptiles--Flight--Juvenile literature
- Reptiles
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
- Amphibians--Flight
- Reptiles--Flight
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
- Amphibians--Flight--Juvenile literature
- Mammals--Flight
- Flight
- Gliders (Mammals)--Juvenile literature
- Animals--Juvenile literature
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Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024
Commended, 2018
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Nonfiction Selection, 2017
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