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23) Outside in
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author behind The Quiet Book comes a mindful contemplation on the many ways nature affects our everyday lives, even when we're stuck inside. Five starred reviews! Perfect for fans of Joyce Sidman and Julie Fogliano, Outside In reminds emerging readers of the ways nature creates and touches our lives in homes, apartments, and cars, and is the perfect homeschooling tool to reflect on the world's connectedness. Outside...
24) Dark on light
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 220L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As night falls, a trio of siblings stumble upon some of nature's hidden nighttime beauty, including timid fawns, blossoming lavender, silent owls, and many more wonders of the night.
25) H is for Hawk
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
27) Finding wild
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
"All the ways and places that wild exists in our world and where you can find it"--
28) Run wild
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 240L
Language
English
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Description
A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.
Author
Publisher
Dawn Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Language
English
Description
"Like a quilt, each habitat in nature is composed of many interdependent pieces that form grand patterns and webs. The text introduces numerous key concepts in natural science, and the back material offers activities and ideas for teaching"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself. Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Dom̈nec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain." He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of...
36) Walden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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Description
Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experiences living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and his philosophy concerning humankind's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
When Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don't make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised (and disappointed) to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator's careful--and funny--instructions,...
40) Nature spy
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
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Description
A child takes a close-up look at such aspects of nature as an acorn, the golden eye of a frog, and an empty hornet's nest.