Beneath the Sun

Beneath the SunBy: Melissa Stewart Illustrator: Constance R. Bergum This lyrical tour of a variety of habitats offers young readers vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the hot season under the blazing sun. When the sun is shining brightly, people put on sunscreen or scurry inside to cool off. But how do wild animals react to the sizzling heat? Journey from your neighborhood to a field where an earthworm loops its long body into a ball underground, to a desert

anywhere in the world

everyone else in the class wants to win too

crafty jackals

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