One day in the desert /
by Jean Craighead George ; illustrated by Fred Brenner.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Crowell, c1983.
- 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.
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Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.
3-6 5.1 Lexile value, 860 Metametrics
0064420388
82045924 /AC
Desert ecology. Heat--Physiological effect. Papago Indians. Indians of North America--Arizona. Ecology.