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1) The island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
4) Anna's table
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Anna describes the collection of natural things she keeps on the table in her bedroom.
5) In my world
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Describes some of the many things in the natural world--such as worms, seashells, flowers, and stars--that a child can appreciate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
8) The hike
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Three friends set out on a day hike to explore their local forest, intending to climb to the top of the hill, where they will plant a flag, read a poem, and release feathers into the wind.
10) The witch's boy
Author
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
11) The loop
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Hope, Montana is a ranching town whose roads were once paved in wolf skulls. When a pack of wolves returns to the area and livestock begin to turn up dead, Hope's legacy of wolf-hating is reignited. It is up to biologist Helen Ross, called in to collar and monitor the wolves, to uphold their legally-protected status. Helen soon finds herself in the middle of a war zone, but among the growing ranks of hostile ranchers and militant environmentalists,...
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Series
Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mole is mad about magic until he takes his friend Mouse to a show that turns out to be all tricks, but then Mouse conjures up a special night program to show him the enchantment found in nature.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
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Description
"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Tillman weaves rich illustrations and comforting language to promote in children a deep sense of their own worth. Before the tale ends, children will be wiggling their toes and whispering their names in joyous celebration of their own unique wonder.
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Description
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 into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
18) Skywater
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Description
Explores the southwestern desert life of coyotes from the point of view of the coyotes themselves.
19) The meadow
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Formats
Description
In a blending of fiction and fact, the author presents the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border area. He describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who struggle to survive on the family ranch that encompasses the meadow.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time, they land in the tallest tree in Yosemite, California where they join nature conservationist, John Muir, and US President Teddy Roosevelt on a historic trip through the woods"--