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Summary: This book will delight young readers as they learn about the homing pigeon's Awesome Animal Power. Basic information is covered, such as life cycle, range, diet, predators, and threats. Table of contents, body diagram, map, fun facts, facts page, glossary, and index are included.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.65 LAJGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "Discover how pigeons were trained for use in World Wars I and II. Learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Yomtov, Nel
Summary: "In October 1918, World War I had been raging in Europe for more than four years. When Major Charles Whittlesey led the U.S. 77th Division into France's Argonne Forest, his troops were soon surrounded and cut off from escape by German forces. Things became even more dangerous when the division came under friendly fire from U.S. forces. The troops' only hope was to send a carrier pigeon named...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J904.4 YOMGreen-Armytage, Stephen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.596 GRERaschka, Christopher
Summary: Two pigeons fly through the city hoping to find a friend-but where do friends come from? In this brightly illustrated love letter to cities, the fine, feathered characters discover the magical, unlikely connections that happen best in the hustle and bustle of a big city.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG RASSummary: Pigeons do somersaults in mid-flight, and there is a subculture of men in South Central L.A. devoted to this phenomenon as a competitive sport.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIGBodio, Stephen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford Publishers 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.596 BODSummary: The bus driver has only one request, 'Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!' The pigeon, however, is determined to get behind the wheel. An impetuous pigeon just wants what he wants in these amusing dialogues. Youngsters who recognize themselves in the tantrum-throwing pigeon, will see themselves again, this time in the calm, shrewd duckling that knows just how to get his way. Also included are:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DONHumphries, Courtney
Summary: An evolutionary and cultural history of the pigeon takes readers from the dovecotes of ancient Egypt and trenches of World War I to the pigeon-racing societies and city park benches of the modern world, in an account that explores the pigeon's role as creature that is both wild and dependent on humans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.65 HUMCorera, Gordon
Summary: The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 CORRoza, Greg.
Summary: This book describes pigeons, including their physical characteristics, feeding habits, how they raise their young, and the effects pigeons and humans have on one another when living side-by-side.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animal RozaFrank, Matthew Gavin
Summary: "Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a stunning investigation into the role of carrier pigeons in South African diamond smuggling. Nearly every town along South Africa's infamous diamond coast has been deemed "overmined." Before the area fully becomes a series of abandoned outposts, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank drives from Oranjemund,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1336 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1336 FRAWillems, Mo.
Summary: The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILSohn, Emily
Summary: "With help from his friends Ben and Eva, Astro the Alien learns about the extinct passenger pigeon by comparing it to living pigeons. Includes a note to caregivers, reading activities, and a word list"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SOHGreenberg, Joel (Joel R.)
Summary: Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.168 GREFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pigeon River Country Association 1985
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 FRAFranz, Dale Clarke
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.483 FRACone, Molly
Summary: Describes the efforts of the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to clean up a nearby stream, stock it with salmon, and preserve it as an unpolluted place where the salmon could return to spawn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books for Children 1992
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 639.3 CONCall number: J630.3 CON
Caffrey, Scott.
Summary: "The history of the Detroit Pistons professional basketball team from its start in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1941 to today, spotlighting the franchise's greatest players and moments"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.32364 CAFGoldsmith, Connie
Summary: "In the twenty-first century, military marine mammals detect lost equipment and underwater mines. Large rats are trained to find land mines in more than 80 countries. Military working dogs search for explosive devices and other weapons and are trained to take down enemy combatants. In earlier centuries, military fighters rode horses into battle, relied on elephants to haul supplies, and trained...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 355 GOLWarner, Andy
Summary: "Find out more than you ever thought possible about creatures both cute and weird, large and small, while discovering new stories about human history from the perspective of our animal companions"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 WARSummary: A police superintendent asks Hercule Poirot to investigate a case where a man may have been convicted for a murder he didn't commit; the headmistress at an all girls' school asks Poirot to solve the murders that have been committed there; the cast and crew of "Poirot" discuss the making of the episodes and bringing the detective to the screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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Summary: Describes the city of bridges, canals, pigeons, and gondolas, and includes places of interest to see and historical and cultural facts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Montgomery, Sy.
Summary: Combines popular science with personal anecdotes as the author describes her encounters with a range of avian personalities from various parts of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010