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The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up: A Book About Deserts
Joanna Cole, Suzanne Weyn, Bruce Degen · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorThe Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 32 pages
This philosophical children's book deserves its status as a classic. It has been translated into over 250 languages and is enjoyed by children around the world.
Season of the Sandstorms
Mary Pope Osborne · 106 pages
Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way that they live. From camel rides and oases to ancient writings and dangerous sandstorms, here's another Magic Tree House filled with all the mystery, history, magic, and old-fashioned adventure that ki
Holes
Louis Sachar · 240 pages
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green
Dance in the Desert
Madeleine L'Engle · 55 pages
This short book describes an encounter in the desert when the animals came to a caravan campfire and danced with a child because fear was absent.
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Katherine Woods · 87 pages
A pilot forced to land in the Sahara meets a little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells of his own planet with its three volcanoes and a haughty flower are unforgettable. A strange and wonderful parable for all ages, with superb illustrations by the author.
Aladdin
Walt Disney Company · 40 pages
The Disney version of the tale of the poor orphan, Aladdin, who with the help of a genie, outwits the evil Jafar and wins the love of Princess Jasmine.
The Crab with the Golden Claws
Herge · 62 pages
Following a series of mysterious clues, Tintin and Snowy trail a dangerous gang of opium-smugglers through the scorching Sahara desert and the alleys of a Moroccan port.
Hour of the Bees
Lindsay Eagar · 368 pages
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
The Little Prince
Antoine Saint-Exupery · 82 pages
The narrator, an airplane pilot, crashes in the Sahara desert. The crash badly damages his airplane and leaves the narrator with very little food or water. As he is worrying over his predicament, he is approached by the little prince, a very serious little blond boy who asks the narrator to draw him a sheep. The narrator obliges, and the two become friends. The pilot learns that the little prince
The Black Stallion Returns
Walter Farley · 203 pages
When his rightful owner repossesses the Black, eighteen-year-old Alec travels across the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and helps resolve a tribal feud.
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis · 224 pages
Relates the adventures of a little burro who blazed trails through the Grand Canyon and met many famous people in the process.
The Little Prince
Antoine De Saint-Expury · 147 pages
"All grown-ups were once children . . . but only few of them remember it." It’s the Sahara Desert, and a pilot has crashed his plane. When suddenly a young boy—with golden hair and a loveable laugh, and who claims to have fallen to Earth—appears before him and asks him to draw a sheep, what does he do? He draws it! Thus begins this poetic and sublime adventure, an enchanting fable, which encloses
Yucky Worms
Vivian French · 32 pages
While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin · 95 pages
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
Joyce Sidman · 40 pages
Poems and factual information about some of the creatures that live on Planet Earth.
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger · 347 pages
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart
Pat Mora · 30 pages
Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.