"Join Diego on a nighttime beach expedition to see baby sea turtles hatch! Along the way Diego shares fun facts about leatherback sea turtles and how you can help them!"--P. [4] of cover.

Mariana the sea turtle and her fellow hatchlings have an adventure on their first trip to the ocean. This translation of the unique Fact & Fiction Animal Tales series provides fluent Spanish readers with a variety of genre and text structures to compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction in one book. The first part is a creative side-by-side format that develops multiple reading comprehension strategies and increases Spanish fluency. The useful Speed...

Unmoved by his friends' attempts draw him out with singing classes and snowball fights, Tortoise tries to settle down for his annual winter nap and instead stumbles into a wonderfully icy experience.

At Fox's house, all of Franklin's friends share funny stories that help the little turtle overcome his fear of thunder and lightning.

Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.

Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director's niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.

Casey helps Michaelangelo and Donatello keep a nosey television monster-hunter from revealing their existence.

April learns how the turtles became ninjas and enlists their help against the bank-robbing Mousers of Dr. Stockman.

Six silent turtles sit still as stones on a log, as energetic movement by the other animals in the pond happens all around them.

When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.