mollusks

The life of a chiton

Imagine you’re the kind of mollusk called a chiton tuhn). You have a sort of head, a mouth, but no eyes. Your body is a soft, oblong lump, with no arms or legs. Your head and back are covered with…

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Places to Know

NO WONDER I’M A WONDER

I was once a statue named Colossus. I was macle of bronze. I stood beside the harbor of a small island called Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. I was twenty times taller than a man, and my thumb was so big…

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Mountains, Valleys, and Plains

Lands of ice

Two parts of the earth are bitter cold all year round. These places are the “top” and the “bottom” of the earth—the North Pole and South Pole. The land around the South Pole is called Antarctica….

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