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Set against the backdrop of Oak Lake, the narrative captures the vibrant transformation of nature as spring emerges. With the arrival of May, life around the lake intensifies, showcasing the dynamic cycles of feeding, fighting, mating, and nurturing among the animals. The raw energy of the Wild Season brings a renewed vigor to the natural world, illustrating the intricate and often dramatic interplay of life and death in the wild.

Focusing on the learner's perspective, this book explores the instructional design process in depth. It covers essential topics such as perception and visual literacy, learner analysis, and effective layout and design strategies. Additionally, it delves into the impact of the World Wide Web and the evolving landscape of e-learning, providing valuable insights for educators and instructional designers aiming to enhance the learning experience.

The twins, Lara and Barnaby, find a new way back into Mesmeria, but in a time frame different than originally. The good Queen Mag Namodder has been kidnapped by the evil King of Bluggia and will die unless the twins and their friends can rescue her. In the effort, they encounter many dreadful hazards…and Lara becomes a witch.

A very special young adult nature novel about the life and adventures in survival of a North Carolina king snake, from the time of his hatching until he becomes adult. The story shows the way he lives, how he catches and eats his prey (including other snakes, even poisonous ones), his value in the balance of nature and the fascinating events of his life, shedding new light and understanding about the lives of snakes, which, despite their value to man, are so often misunderstood and deliberately killed just because of what they are or what they are perceived to be.

"Eckert's skills as a naturalist, previously displayed in his Newbery Award-winning Incident at Hawk's Hill, are here given full expression and armchair adventurers will soon be caught in its spell. The pristine and often savage beauty of the killer rainforest is described in lush detail; the reader is right there, watching. Once the reader has been snagged, he'll be as much a captive of the magnificent forest as is Sarah Francis and just as intent as she to survive in a paradoxically terrifying and beautiful environment. The reader cannot help by hold his breath!"-Cincinnati Enquirer

Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 specific sites; this Volume 2 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived.

Johnny Logan was born Spemica Lawba, a Shawnee. Taken prisoner as a boy when his village was destroyed by an army under General Benjamin Logan, he is adopted by Logan. Later returned to his people, Johnny Logan becomes a spy for the Americans in the War of 1812 and gives up his life to prove his loyalty to the Americans.

Based on a little-known incident in the life of Boone when, after being captured by Shawnees and subsequently escaping, he was charged with treason and court-martialed. In a brilliant display of ability, Boone defends himself at the trial and gradually the truth about what really happened emerges until he is at last exonorated.

The "coming of age" story of a very lonely and misunderstood boy who is sent to a boarding school and finds solace in the woods, with nature. He becomes especially enraptured of a giant old oak tree, on the massive branches of which he indulges his fantasies and dreams of what he may someday become.