Sandra Markle

Introduces orca whales, describing their physical features, what they eat, where they live, and how they care for their young.

Even before they're born, baby sharks have to be tough to survive. Some that grow inside their mothers compete with their womb-mates for food, space, and their very lives. Others have to escape as soon as their mothers give birth to avoid becoming her tasty snack. From day one, baby sharks then have to figure out how to make it in an ocean teeming with predators. Brilliant color photographs reveal how shark pups grow from tiny eggs into giant...

Discusses the lives of crocodiles, focusing on how they hunt their prey.

An introduction to the lives of wolves that focuses on how they hunt and how they raise their cubs.

A mother emperor penguin is charged with a special duty: to bring food to her newborn chick. But the closest food is in the open sea, miles from the penguin breeding ground. While the father penguin incubates the egg as it develops into a chick, the mother must trek far across the pack ice, dodging predators and battling bitter cold to bring back the food her baby desperately needs.

Using technology as well as brains and bravery, rescuers put themselves in harm's way to save others. Includes information of how the global positioning system works for locating victims, what the heart-lung machine does and how robots detect people buried in earthquakes or other disasters.

Why do special features make all the difference in the insects life, even help it survive? Find the answers to many questions about creeping, crawling insects of all sizes.

" Spend a day with carnivorous dinosaurs in this fantastic new series from Sandra Markle, the bestselling author of the What If You Had... series! What if you could spend a day with your favorite animals? What would you eat? How would you play? Would you ever want to leave?Pull up a chair and get ready to dine with carnivorous dinosaurs in the third book in the Could You Ever... series! Learn all about what different meat-eating dinosaurs ate, when...

"Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year ... and no one knows why. Is a fungus kill ing them? Could a poor diet be the cause? What about changes to bees' natural habitat? In this real-life science mystery,scientists and beekeepers are working...