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21) Enna burning
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Enna hopes that her new knowledge of how to wield fire will help protect her good friend Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all of Bayern against their enemies, but the need to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger.
22) 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.
24) 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.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of the nature study movement, demonstrating its significance to American environmental thought and politics. He shows how nature study, as both a pedagogic and popular idea, has had a lasting effect on American culture and society, and his reevaluation of the movement has much to tell us about the American relationship with the nonhuman world.
28) 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...
30) 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.
31) 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...
33) Wonder walkers
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
37) 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"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over Puget Sound through summer.
39) Run wild
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 240L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A celebration of the joy of being outdoors features a child who abandons his digital device in favor of joining a friend outside.