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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
10) Finding wild
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"All the ways and places that wild exists in our world and where you can find it"--
11) Hold on, Toby
Author
Publisher
Windy Island Publishing
Pub. Date
�2016
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hold on, Toby is the story of a little maple leaf bud on a very big tree. As he grows and matures, he encounters the wonder and forces of nature, and various critters and people of all sizes. Throughout his journey Toby is often told to hold on, although he has no idea what that means. Hold on, Toby presents an opportunity to experience the joy of each season and to glimpse an understanding of the cycle of life as expressed through the seasons of...
12) Honey
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young bear wakes from hibernation craving honey, but soon recalls the many things he can enjoy while waiting for his favorite food to be ready.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from Michener's other novels are collected in this single volume in which he re-creates the planet Earth as it existed millions of years ago when dinosaurs flourished, describes the vast forces that created the geological wonders we know today, and explains how in the millennia-old struggle for survival, some species endured and evolved while others disappeared.
14) The loop
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
787 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Owl moon
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
English-language edition.
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Bear Named Bjorn takes us into the forest with Bjorn the bear and his friends. One day the animals have their eye exams and try on the humans' lost glasses. Another, they just sit, watching the leaves and playing cards on a tree stump. And on party night the animals borrow clothes hanging on the camping ground line--and return everything carefully in the morning, only a little bit used.
18) Hiking day
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her family go hiking up a nearby mountain for the very first time.
19) The road home
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
446 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A man who was offered for adoption at birth because he was an illegitimate child searches for his mother in this novel on a Nebraska family. In the process, Nelse Carlson, 30, discovers he is the grandson of a powerful rancher.
20) Earth Mother
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations and offers advice on how to make the world more perfect.
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