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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
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...
5) It's spring!
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
A child observes the arrival of spring and its effects on plants and animals. Includes suggestions for nature study projects.
6) In my world
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the many things in the natural world--such as worms, seashells, flowers, and stars--that a child can appreciate.
8) 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"--
9) Nature walk
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Two children walk through the woods with a guide, exploring trails and observing nature around them.
10) The empty lot
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club
Pub. Date
1991.
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Inspecting an empty, partially wooded lot before selling it, Harry finds it occupied by birds, insects, and other small animals.
11) Gray Fox
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Gray Fox is at one with nature and his place in it. When his life is brought to a sudden end, we see--through the eyes of a compassionate young boy--that nature offers recompense for loss.
13) Paper bag trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
150L
Language
English
Description
Nature interferes when Lee attempts to throw away her empty popcorn bag.
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.
19) 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.
20) Out of the ocean
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.