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• Carlsbad Caverns National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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  High ancient sea ledges, deep rocky canyons, flowering cactus, and desert wildlife—treasures above the ground in the Chihuahuan Desert. Hidden beneath the surface are more than 119 caves—formed when sulfuric acid dissolved limestone leaving behind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carlsbad Caverns Natural Entrance Camera | Explore.org

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  Perched above the natural entrance this camera shows the mouth of the cave and the winding trail that descends into the cavern. It's also where the bats emerge from each night.

• Hiking Carlsbad Caverns & Guadalupe Mountains National Parks

  Schneider, Bill

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  Inspired to travel? Use this book to plan a trip to Texas to explore Carlsbad Caverns in person!

• Cave Explorations in Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama

  Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933

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  Want to learn more about caves nearby? In Cave Explorations in Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, Gerard Fowke, the famed American archaeologist and geologist, gives detailed accounts of the archaeological and geological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Missouri Caves in History and Legend

  Weaver, H. Dwight

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  Carlsbad Caverns is in Texas, but Missouri has many, many caves, too! "Examines the historical and cultural significance of Missouri caves, describing ways that people have used them historically for shelter, cold storage, burials, moonshine stills,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A World Below

  King, Wesley

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  Explore what it might be like to be trapped in a cave in this fictional chapter book in from our Juvenile collection. Mr. Baker's eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, but their journey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wild, Wild Southwest!

  Corwin, Jeff

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  Join explorer Jeff Corwin for a fictional trip through the Southwest. Budding naturalists Lucy, Benjamin, and Gabe camp in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, and travel to White Sands National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns, exploring their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bats

  Learning to Fly

  Koch, Falynn, 1985-

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  Dive (or fly) into the world of bats with this nonfiction graphic novel about bats. We follow a little brown bat whose wing is injured by humans on a nature hike. He is taken to a bat rehabilitation center where he meets many different species of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blind Descent

  Barr, Nevada

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  U.S. park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying the open spaces of Colorado when she receives an urgent call. Her friend and fellow ranger has been seriously injured while exploring a cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern Park, and she specifically asked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Genius Bat

  the Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

  Yovel, Yossi (Ecologist and neurobiologist),

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  Take a tour through the development of our understanding of bat biology. The reader gets a front row seat to see to the study of bats, into in caves, dead trees, jungles, and a highly modified hotel room. You'll learn about the unusual hammerhead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Thirteen

  the Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

  Soontornvat, Christina

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  Written for a young adult audience, this the account of the cave rescue of a boys soccer team from a Thai cave.

• Aquanaut

  a Life Beneath the Surface : the Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

  Stanton, Rick,

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  Written for an adult audience, Rick Stanton recounts how they orchestrated the successful rescue of the boys trapped in the Thai cave.

• Lost Boys of Hannibal

  Wingate, John (John D.),

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  Sadly, not all cave rescues end happily. Read about one of the great unsolved mysteries that happened here in Missouri. In 1967, the largest cave search in US history unfolded in historic Hannibal, Missouri, the boyhood home of author Mark Twain.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cave and the Cathedral

  How a Real-life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man

  Aczel, Amir D.

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  Popular science writer Aczel examines French (and some Spanish) cave drawings and the theories scientists have put forward to explain them, including religious iconography, hunting trophies, and a leap in human brain development.

• The First Drawing

  Gerstein, Mordicai

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  This children's picture book recounts a story of the first drawings. Thirty thousand years ago, an imaginative child sees the shapes of animals in clouds and on the walls of the cave he shares with his family, but no one else can see them until he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dark!

  Wild Life in the Mysterious World of Caves

  Leigh, Lindsey,

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  This fact-filled book reveals the different ways that creatures of the dark have adapted to thrive in their environments, including slow movement and loss of pigment in their bodies to blend in with their surroundings. Readers will get to know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

  a Tale of Travel and Darkness With Pictures of All Kinds

  Gaiman, Neil

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  "Illustrated by ... Eddie Campbell, this is a four-color edition of Neil Gaiman's award-winning novelette 'The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains'--a haunting story of family, the otherworld, and retribution"--

• Exploring the World's Largest Cave

  Secrets of S¿n Đoòng - the Lost Underground Planet Hidden for 3 Million Years

  Crosswell, Ethan,

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  "Deep in the heart of the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park in Vietnam, hidden beneath a dense jungle canopy, lies Hang S¿n Đoòng - the world's largest cave...This book takes you deep into the mysteries of Hang S¿n Đoòng, unraveling how it remained…Read moreRead more of this annotation