Spiny and Prickly Plants

From the Set Beware! Killer Plants

Junior Library Guild Selection
Plants might look harmless, but they can be killers. Some plants have huge thorns filled with stinging insects. Others can poke a person’s skin with tiny poison daggers. This narrative nonfiction series features some of the most interesting—and dangerous—plants on the planet. Each book in this series includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and a feature on animal and plant mutualism.

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Dewey 581.6/59
Lexile 770L
ATOS Reading Level
Guided Reading Level Q
Publisher Cherry Lake Publishing
Series Beware! Killer Plants
Language English
Available Formats Reinforced book (9781534187719), Paperback (9781534189119), PDF (9781534190511), ePub (9781534196353), Hosted ebook (9781534191914), Kindle (9781534194816)
Copyright 2022
Number of Pages 24
Dimensions 8.25 x 8.25
Graphics Full-color photographs, Historical photographs

Author: Joyce Markovics

Joyce Markovics has written more than 500 nonfiction children's books (or at least two giraffe-sized stacks) on topics ranging from killer plants and marvelous mummies to protest marches and Black filmmakers. She recently started her own book development company, Bowerbird Books. Joyce is passionate about telling stories that captivate and inspire young readers. In her free time, she cleans old gravestones, collects oddities, and volunteers at an animal sanctuary.

  • Stinging Tree
  • Nasty Nettles
  • Spiky Succulents
  • Sinister Seeds
  • Plant Partners
  • Glossary
  • Find Out More
  • Index
  • About the Author
Author/Illustrator biography
Glossary of key words
Index
Informative sidebars
Table of contents
Full-color photographs, Historical photographs