Title Last Name First Name ISBNNumber Grades Notes
1 A Day at Seagull Beach Wallace Karen 0-7894-4002-4 Pre K-1 DK Eyewitness Readers Level 1
2 A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy Holtzman Caren 0-590-26598-9 1-3 Scholastic Hello Math Reader serries
3 A Whale Is Not A Fish Berger Melvin 0-590-47477-4 2-5 Scholastic commonly confuses animals
4 A Woman Who Cared Becvar Patsy 1-3 Nystrom,a kit includes a audio tape, a 7" by 10" book and a 14" by 20" book and teacher's guide.
5 All About Islands Rydell Wendy 3-5 Troll Associates
6 Animal Autopsy: The Beginner's Guide Parker Steve 0-590-05038-9 5 & up Inside workings of animals from the lowest to the giant blue whale
7 Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Barrett Judith MacMillian goes with Mare activity "A Snail's Place"
8 At the Water's Edge Zimmer Carl 0-684-83490-1 adult Macroevolution and the transformation life. Adult understand of evolutionary biology, especially how bodies evolved from fish to mammal.
9 Beneath the Sea in 3-D Blum Mark 0-8118-1412-2 all Chronicle Books
10 Billy Bud H.S.
11 Birds Dorfman Gillian World Wildlife Fund
12 Birds and How They Live Burnie David 0-7894-3445-8 all DK See and Explore Series
13 Brown Pelican at the Pond O'Reilly Edward K-2 Manzanita Press written by a child who finds a wounded Pelican
14 Civilization and the Limpet Wells Martin 0-7382-0017-4 adult Perseus Books, 25 essays of insights on sea life.
15 Coral Reef Taylor Barbara DK
16 Coral Reefs Holing Dwight Blake Publishing
17 Do Fish Get Thirsty?: Questions Answered Kaufman Dr. Les 4-7 Watts,  New England Aquarium
18 Don't Blink Now: Capturing Hidden World of Sea Creatures Downer Ann 3-6 New England Aquarium Book photos are focus of this book with easy text
19 Ecology Pollock Steve 1-56458-326-0 5 & up DK Eyewitness Science series
20 Egg: Photographic Story of Hatching Burton Robert 1-56458-460-7 1-5 DK, photos and text about all the egg layers
21 Elephant Seal Island Shaw Evelyn 1-2 Harper & Row I Can Read series
22 Elephant Seals Johnson Sylvia 3-6 Lerner
23 Evolution: The Story of How Life Devel. On Earth Cole Joanna Harper & Row
24 Exploring the Bismarck: Real Life Quest to Find Hi Ballard Robert 5 to adult Scholastic/Madsion Press, story of WW II battle and search for it's remains by well known marine geologist
25 Exploring the Titanic Ballard Robert 5 to adult Scholastic/Madison Press story of it's discovery by famed marine geologist
26 Exploring Tidepools Brown Roger 0-945092-35-0 3 & up Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
27 Fairy Tales of the Sea Cowan and Davis Elizabeth and Karen Texas A & M Sea Grant College Press
28 Find Feathered Friends: All About Birds Rabe Tish 0-679-88362-2 2-3 Cat In the Hat Learning Library book
29 Fish Parker Steve all Knopf, An Eyewitness Book
30 Fish Sabin Louis 2-4 Troll Associates very simply written with color drawings
31 Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean Dorros Arthur 2-4 HarperCollins Let's Read and Find Out Science book, good for young readers and ESL students
32 Hello, Fish!: Visiting the Coral Reef Earle Sylvia 0-7922-7103-3 all National Geographic, paragraph length poetic captions to great photos.
33 How A Seed Grows Jordan Helene 0-06-445107-0 K-2 Let's Read and Find Out About Science Stage 1
34 How Big Is  A Foot Myller Rolf 0-440-40495-9 2-5 Dell,  A  Young Yearling Book about the why we have standard units of measurement. Metric system
35 How the Sea Began: A Taino Myth Crespo George 1-6 Clarion
36 How the Whale Got His Throat Kipling Rudyard Philomel Books
37 How To Draw Sea Creatures Makowski Robin Lee 1-56156-516-4 Kidsbooks How to Draw series
38 Humprey the Lost Whale: A True Story Tokuda and Hall Wendy and Richard 3-5 Heian International
39 Is A Camel A Mammal Rabe Tish 0-679-87302-3 1-4 Random House Cat in the Hat Learning Library
40 Island of Blue Dolphins O'Dell Scott 4-8 Houghton Mifflin, Newberry Award winner story of Native American girl stranded on small Cal. Island.
41 Land Under the Sea Nixon Hershell and Joan 4-6 Dodd, Mead, more about the exploration of the ocean floor.
42 Life in a Tidepool Silverstein Alvin and  Virginia 3-7 Little, Brown good book to read to younger readers and discuss the pictures with.
43 Life in the Ocean Wu Nobert
44 Life In the Water Porter Keith 4-6 Schoolhouse Press, The Animal Kingdom
45 Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor Cole Joanna 0-590-41431-3 K-6 Scholastic
46 Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks Cole Joanna K-6 Scholastic
47 Marine Birds Kalman Bobbie 0-86505-766-4 3-8 Crabtree
48 Moby Dick H.S.
49 Nature Hide and Seek: Oceans Wood and Harrison John and Mark Pre-K-3 Knopf fold out flaps show how animals protect themselves
50 Ocean Life McDonald and Brodie Page and Julie 1-58282-0139-9 2 & up Classroom Connect list of web sites and ocean related activities. Hotlinks title
51 Oceans Simon Seymour 3-6 Morrow Junior Books
52 One Small Square: Seashore Silver Donald 0-07-057928-8 3 & up One Small Square series introduces grids and observation skills
53 Origami Sea Life Montroll and Lang John and Robert All Dover detailed instructions from simple to very complex
54 Peterson Guide to Seashores Kricher John all Houghton Mifflin
55 Rachel Carson & Environmental Movement Foster Leila 3-5 Children's Press
56 Sand Dunes Bannan Jan 2-5 Carolrhoda
57 Sea Full of Whales Armour Richard 0-590-03625-4 2 & up Scholastic  all in verse
58 Seabird Holling Holling Clacny 0-395-26681-5 5 & up Houghton Mifflin- a story about generations of sailors linked by a carved ivory gull, lots of seafaring info
59 Seals Bright Michael 3-6 Gloucester Press
60 Seals and Sea Lions Miller David 0-89658-371-6 Adult Voyaguer Press book with adult text but great pictures for any age.
61 Seals, Sea Lions and Walruses Patent Dorothy 4-6 Holiday House
62 Seashells Ingoglia Gina 0-307-12854-7 2-5 Western, A Golden Book
63 Seashore Burnie David 0-7894-16881-6 2 & up DK Eyewitness Explorers
64 Seashore Identifier Lollo Bob All Mallard Press
65 Seashore Surprises Wyler Rose 2-4 An Outdoor Science Book
66 Sewer Sam the Sea Cow Jacobs Francine 1-3 Walker & Co. life of a manatee from birth to mating age
67 Shark MacQuitty Miranda all Knopf, An Eyewitness Book
68 Sharks and Rays of the Pacific Coast Ferguson and Cailliet Ava and Gregor all Monterrey Bay Aquarium
69 Shell Arthur Alex All Knife Eyewitness book
70 Shells Arthur Alex All ages Eyewitness Books
71 Shoreline Greenaway Frank 1-56458-213-2 2 & up DK Look Closer series
72 Sir Cumference and the First Round Table Neuschwander Cindy 1-57091-152-5 3-5 Charlesbridge Publishing
73 Siwiti: A Whale's Story Morton Alexandra 3-6 Orca Book Publishers story of a female Orca from birth through her first year.
74 Sukey and the Mermaid San Souci Robert 1-4 Four Winds Press
75 Tentacles: The Amazing World of Octopus, Squid Martin James 3-6 Crown, good follow-up to squid dissection
76 The Fly on the Ceiling:A Math Myth Glass Dr. Julie 0-679-88607-9 2-5 Troll Step into Reading +Math to tell how Rene Decartes could have created the Cartesian Coordinate System
77 The Hunt For Red October
78 The Manatee Sibbald Jean 3-5 Dillon Press
79 The Ocean Floor Lye Keith 3-6 Bookwright Press, intro to study of ocean floor with accounts of the technology needed to study it.
80 The Old Man And The Sea H.S.
81 The Sea World Book of Sharks Bunting Eve 5 to adult Harcourt, Brace
82 The World of Animal Life Legg and Weston Gerald and Steve 0-7607-0908-4 3 & up Barnes & Noble How It Works series
83 This is the Sea That Feeds Us Baldwin Robert 1-883220-70-x 2 -5 Dawn Publications
84 Those Amazing Eels Halton Cheryl 3-6 Dillon Press
85 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea H.S.
86 Waves, Tides and Currents Rogers Daniel 3-6 Bookwright,
87 Wetlands: Nature Search Langley Andrew 3-5 Reader's Digest Association
88 Whales an Other Sea Mammals Posell Elsa 0-516-01663-6 2-5 Children's Press A New True Book
89 Whales, the Nomads of the Sea Sattler Helen 5-9 Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 50 page intro to whales followed by glossary of whales with paragraph length description.
90 What's It Like to Be A Fish? Pfeffer Wendy 0-06-445151-8 K-2 HarperCollins Let's Read and Find Out About Science series
91 Where the Waves Break Malnig Anita 1-5 Carolrhoda Nature Watch book
92 Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs Lauber Patricia 0-06-445130-5 2-5  HarperCollins Let's Read and Find Out About Science series with activities
93 Why the Crab Has No Head Knutson Barbara Pre-K- 3 Carolrhona African folktale told by Bakongo people of Zaire
94 Why The Tides Ebb and Flow Bowden Joan K-3 Houghton Mifflin African folktale
95 Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures Worth Bonnie 0-679-99116-1 1-3 Random House Cat In the Hat Learning Library
96 Wonders of Sharks Blassingame Wyatt 4-7 Dodd, Mead
97 You Can Be A Woman Marine Biologist McAlary & Cohen Florence & Judith 1-880599-06-6 1-6 Cascade, What is career in marine biology like from woman's point of view