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Author
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
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
HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Description
A tree is the biggest plant that grows. Trees can live for a very long time, and they are alive all year long, even when they look dead in winter.In this newly illustrated book, you will learn how a tree grows and how it gets food and water. You can also find out what happens to water after it travels through a tree's roots, branches, and leaves, and how to figure out a tree's age.Clyde Robert Bulla's simple and concise text and Stacey Schuett's lush...
10) Eating apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs describe different ways to enjoy apples--whole, sliced, cooked, and juiced.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Description
Wanting to give an apple to each of his friends when the apples on the tree in his backyard ripen, Dragon manages to pick three apples but is dismayed when the fourth and final apple is out of his reach.
12) Apples
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown.
13) I am an apple
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
310L
Language
English
Description
Depicts a bud on an apple tree as it grows into an apple, ripens, is harvested, and provides seeds as a promise for the future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Dragon is lonely so he goes looking for a friend and when an apple falls on his head he is convinced that he has found one; but at home Apple is quiet and unresponsive, and when a visit to the doctor only makes things worse, Dragon mourns the loss of his friend--until an apple tree grows where Apple is buried.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
Members of the Rabbit family visit an apple orchard, where they have fun picking apples and discovering their many uses. Includes a recipe for applesauce, directions for a craft activity, and sayings about apples.
18) Apple picking
Author
Series
Publisher
Troll
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A group of animal friends discover the joys of picking and eating apples.