Ocean State Libraries

Explains how icebergs are formed from glaciers, move into the ocean, create hazards to ships, and sometimes melt away.

"Colorful photographs and simple text teach children about icebergs, exploring how they form, the different shapes they are, and how they help animals."--

"Discusses the formation, movement, and different types of glaciers and icebergs and describes their effect on the world around them." --

"Dirk Pitt, an operative for NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is called into action when a long-missing luxury yacht is found frozen in a million-ton mass of ice, its crew members incinerated at their posts, and its deadly top-secret cargo missing."--

The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. And cold-blooded murder seems right at home.
 
Conducting a strange and urgent experiment on the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which...

After watching a documentary about how icebergs are melting, Harold, a lettuce who believes he's an actual iceberg, becomes overly anxious that he's melting, too, until his fellow food friends help him cool down in a different way.

"In the final freeze of an Antarctic winter, green tails wave across a star-full sky, as if to farewell endless nights. If this world looks empty, look closer. Penguins trek across the ice to their winter homes. As the temperature warms, birds fly above on their long migrations. And with the advent of summer, beneath an iceberg, the sea is teeming with life. Ocean, sky, snow and ice, minute greens and giant blues, dance a delicate dance in this evocative...