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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird? Or stare into the mouth of the largest meat eater ever to walk the earth? Can you imagine a millipede that is more than six feet long, or a dinosaur smaller than a chicken? In this “actual size" look at the prehistoric world, which includes two dramatic gatefolds, you'll meet these awe-inspiring creatures, as well as many others.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes an apple tree as it grows leaves and flowers and then produces its fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. Includes a recipe for apple pie.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and photographs follow a pumpkin patch as it grows and changes, from seeds to plants to pumpkins ready to harvest, to jack-o-lanterns and then to seeds again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It looks like a bear, but isnt́ one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey -- but isnt́ a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but whatś a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschieś tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guineaś cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join Timothy, Yoko, Fritz, Nora, and the rest of Mrs. Jenkins's class in this fun-filled picture activity book that introduce concepts taught in kindergarten. Children can learn about letter/sound relationships, upper and lower case letters, and rhyming in Ready to Read.
Author
Publisher
August House LittleFolk/August House Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this work about the water cycle, readers discover that the molecules in their glass of water may have once been part of a dinosaur watering hole.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
17) Crows
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
introduces the American crow, its broader family of corvids, and its range, habitats, cooperative breeding system, life cycle, winter migration, roosting behavior, language, and relations with people. The last chapter discusses the effect of the West Nile virus on crows and humans. One particularly interesting and insightful section explains why increasing numbers of crows have been living in cities rather than in the countryside. Though the clear,...
Author
Publisher
Jump At the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[41] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
46 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As we in the United States have the right to speak the truth, we also have the need to be told the truth. Throughout history, politicians, writers, environmentalists, political activists, and others have used this freedom to motivate and empower Americans to challenge the status quo. Artist Robert Shetterlyś fifty portraits, combined with thought-provoking quotes and concise biographies, offer a powerful view into what it means to be American, to...
20) Out of the egg
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this version of the familiar tale, when the barnyard animals who refused to help her plant and tend a seed ask to play under the "great green whispery tree" that Little Red Hen grew, she says no, but her chick thinks that answer is mean.
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