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Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day
Jane O'Connor - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Learning to respect the environment is no small task, especially if you want to celebrate Earth Day every day of the week! Luckily, Nancy is on hand to make sure Mom, Dad, and her little sister do their part in being green - even if she has to keep reminding them. Nancy knows that she's... |
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Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth
Joshua Sneideman - Nomad Press
Format: Hardcover
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For more than 200 years, scientists have been observing, measuring, and analyzing information about our planet's climate. Studies show that the earth is in constant transition and humans have an effect on what happens. In Climate Change: Discover How It Impacts Spaceship Earth, young... |
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Craft Star: Green Crafts: Become an earth-friendly craft star, step by easy step!
Megan Friday - Walter Foster
Format: Paperback
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Do you enjoy making crafts and taking care of the planet? Well here's your chance to do both! With this helpful book as your guide, you will never look at discarded cans, newspapers, and cereal boxes in the same way again. Transform baby jars into fanciful tealight holders and use the lids... |
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Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
Laurie Lawlor - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, here is a biography of the pioneering environmentalist. "Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it," wrote Rachel Carson, the pioneering environmentalist.... |
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The Buffalo Are Back
Jean Craighead George - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national... |
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A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World's First National Park
Erin Peabody - Sky Pony Press
Format: Hardcover
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The summer of 1871, a team of thirty-two men set out on the first scientific expedition across Yellowstone. Through uncharted territory, some of the day's most renowned scientists and artists explored, sampled, sketched, and photographed the region's breathtaking wonders - from its white-capped... |
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Flush
Carl Hiaasen - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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Take a romp in the swamp with this New York Times bestselling mystery adventure set in the Florida Keys from Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen! Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor - which has made taking a dip at the local... |
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The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle
Lynne Cherry - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A look into a unique ecosystem, one that is endangered in many placesA seed is jostled from a branch of a mangrove tree and floats to a lagoon in the Caribbean Sea. It takes root, sprouts leaves, and slowly begins to grow. Over many years, the mangrove will provide a home and nourishment... |
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Frank Einstein and the bio-action gizmo
Jon Scieszka - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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In the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein series, Frank Einstein (kid genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, pair up with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial... |
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Pond Circle
Betsy Franco - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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On a summer night by a small pond, all seems still. But a closer look reveals a world of activity - mayflies dart, beetles dive, frogs spring, skunks shuffle, and owls swoop. As a young girl watches, the circle of life unfolds. Betsy Franco's rhythmic, cumulative text makes this a lively... |
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The Talking Earth
Jean Craighead George - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Library Binding
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"Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more real to her. How can she believe the Seminole legends about talking animals and earth spirits? She wants answers, not legends."You... |
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John Muir Wrestles a Waterfall
Julie Danneberg - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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The now iconic figure John Muir, while living at the base of Yosemite Falls in California, ventures up the trail from his cabin one night and has a harrowing waterfall adventure. Back matter roots the story in Muir's life's work as a conservationist and naturalist. |
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This Tree Counts!
Alison Formento - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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If you listen carefully to the lone tree behind Oak Lane School, it has a story to tell, about... one owl, two spiders, three squirrels, four robins, five caterpillars, six ants, seven crickets, eight flies, nine ladybugs, and ten earthworms, all living safe and free in their tree home.... |
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