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Author
Series
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
In this classic of literary nonfiction, Annie Dillard takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survivial. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?"--
8) Canoe days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Language
English
Description
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
A mother explains to her son that in nature, an end is also a beginning as day gives way to night, winter ends and spring begins, and, after it stops falling, rain makes clouds for other storms.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world--dandelion, otter, bramble and acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring...
17) My spring robin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Before finding the robin she is searching for, a child discovers other interesting fauna and flora in her backyard.
18) The perfect spot
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A father and his son take great care searching the woods for the perfect spot for the father to paint a picture and the boy to catch insects and frogs.
19) Old Turtle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
Discover how Old Turtle brings peace to all the beings of the world in this classic fable of respect for the earth and the diverse human family. Sing along with author/composer Douglas Wood and his friends as they celebrate Old Turtle's message.