The Texas Book of Beasts Jeff Irvin:Paperback Many students don't know where

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The Texas Book of Beasts Jeff Irvin:Paperback Many students don't know whereJeff Irvin's "The Texas Book of Beasts" is told through a series of 25 short scenes featuring four characters: a property developer, a university professor, an idealistic biologist and a toad. This cast of characters is involved in raucous public meetings as the twenty something woman learns to organize a diverse community to save the endangered toad's habitat from a large encroaching development. Featuring metaphors in verse, interjections in unison,