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"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 to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and...
7) Wishtree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
"Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"--People write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say that Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is...
10) Night tree
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
11) The Angel Tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Every Christmas in the small town of Pine River, a tree appears in the town square and people tie wishes to it, but nobody knows where the tree comes from--but this year four children are determined to solve the mystery of the Angel Tree.
12) Parsley
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
A pine tree growing on the edge of an abyss grew so twisted that the lumbermen never cut it down, and it was able to provide shelter for an old stag.
13) Little tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a poem by E.E. Cummings, this is the story of a little tree that finds its own special place in the world as a much-loved Christmas tree. On board pages.
15) Pie in the sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.
18) A tree's tale
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The huge, 400-year-old oak tree sees many people come and go during the course of its life as a Mai-Mehtug or "path-tree" to the inland forest.
19) The perfect tree
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jack heads out in search of the perfect tree for him to chop, hack, and stack, but instead finds new friends who help him find something surprising.
20) Trees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A simple introduction to trees describes seasonal changes and discusses different habitats and the contributions trees make to the environment.--