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Where I Live

This Is My

Continent

Lisa Bullard

Illustrated by Paula Becker

For Nadine, the driving bean L. B.

Text and illustrations copyright 2017 by
Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of
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Main body text set in Slappy Inline 18/28.
Typeface provided by T26.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bullard, Lisa, author.

Title: This is my continent / by Lisa Bullard.

Description: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2017] | Series: Cloverleaf
books. where I live | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015044327 (print) | LCCN 2016001084 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781467795258 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781467797337
(pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781467797344 (eb pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: ContinentsJuvenile literature.

Classification: LCC G133 .B85 2017 (print) | LCC G133 (ebook) |
DDC 551.41dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044327

Manufactured in the United States of America
1-38742-20638-3/28/2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One

Astronaut
Adventure

My babysitter, Ruby, and I are playing our
favorite game. Were astronauts! Ruby salutes
me. Captain Noah! We have time for one last
adventure before bedtime. Whats it going to be?

Lets explore the entire planet! I say.
Aye, aye, sir, says Ruby. I think we have just
enough time to check out all the continents!

A continent is
a very large area
of land. There are
seven continents
on Earth.

Chapter Two

Asia to
Antarctica

I steer our spaceship close to the biggest
continent. Rubys job is to be our fact
finder. She pulls out her spacePhone to look
up facts about continents. This continent
is called Asia, she says. More than half
the people in the world live here.

We have fun speeding along the Great Wall
of China. Then we zoom to the top of Mount
Everest. Its Earths highest mountain!

Most
continents
have many different
countries. These
countries sometimes
share similar peoples,
histories, and
languages.

We fly on to Europe, Asias neighbor. Ruby says
the two continents even share some countries.
Europeans have really gotten around, she says.
At different times, they have ruled all or part of
most other continents.

Mountains
separate much
of Europe from Asia.
Other continents, like
Africa and South
America, are
separated by
the sea.

We circle around the top of the Eiffel Tower in France.

Then we speed along the fjords of Norway.

Next, we zoom south to Africa. We fly across
the Sahara, a giant desert. I buzz over the
tops of the pyramids.

Africa has more than fifty countries,
reads Ruby. Thats more than any
other continent. And about two
thousand languages are spoken here!

Earth did not
always have seven
continents. Long ago,
todays continents were
just one giant continent.
Smaller continents
broke off from it
and drifted
apart.

We speed across an ocean to another continent.
This is Australia, Ruby says. And this dry land in
the center is called the outback.
I see lots more kangaroos here than people, I say.

Ruby tells me most Australians live in
cities near the ocean. We find plenty of
people near the Sydney Opera House.

We fly even farther south. This is the continent
of Antarctica, says Ruby. Ice covers most of it
all year. And temperatures can fall below -90
Celsius. Thats -130 Fahrenheit!

Antarctica has no countries or cities. The only
people there are scientists. Brrrr! We shiver
and wave good- bye to the penguins.

Chapter Three

The Americas

We head to South America. I fly straight to the
Amazon rain forest. We can warm up there! Ruby
says, This rain forest has more kinds of plants
and animals than anywhere else on Earth.

We zoom over the ancient city of Machu Picchu.
In a newer city named Bogot, Colombia, some kids
call out Hola! Ruby says Spanish and Portuguese
are South Americas most common languages.

I ndigenous peoples

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