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Amazing plant powers how plants fly, fight, hide, hunt, & change the world

Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile envir...

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Main Authors: Leedy, Loreen (Author), Schuerger, Andrew (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Holiday House, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Plants > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile environments that are numbingly cold or stiflingly hot, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.
Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN: 9780823422562 (hardcover)
0823422569 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Loren Leedy is a children's author and illustrator. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1959, and majored in art in college. She began making clay jewelry and chess sets out of whimsical animals, and eventually turned them into book characters. Her first published work was A Number of Dragons, in 1985. She has written and illustrated nearly 40 books since then. Her titles include: Missing Math: a Number Mystery, My Teacher is a Dinosaur, Seeing Symmetry, The Shocking Truth about Energy, Crazy Like a Fox: a Simile Story, Fraction Action, Blast off to Earth, and Postcards from Pluto.

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