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Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The coniferous forest biome is made up of cone-bearing trees such as pines, firs and spruce, as well as a varied assortment of other organisms adapted to live in this unique region. Coniferous forests will take students on a fun-filled trip from Asia to North America to explore these treasured woodlands, taking an up-close look at their shared characteristics while discovering the animal and plant life that call this biome home. An interview with...
Author
Publisher
Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Using the Buddhist teaching of the impermanence of all things, Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh offers solutions to the problems of global warming, disappearing fossil fuels, massive overconsumption, and unsupportable population growth. He demonstrates how this teaching can offer inner peace and help us use our collective wisdom and technology to restore the Earth's balance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains what tropical rain forests are like, looks at the plants and animals that live in rain forests, and includes information on why tropical rain forests are important and what is being done to save them.
8) Look!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An elephant eats, giraffes drink, a warthog digs, and a boy plays, reads, and dreams."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adaptation of the famous book offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After years lived entirely within the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out and ultimately leading into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Finn and his younger brothers, Leo and Ooley, love reading stories about animals living in forests, on mountains or in the arctic. "When I grow up," says Finn, "I want to see wild animals and strange birds." "Why wait?" asks Leo. And so they set out in the snow on the Three Brothers' Wild Animal Safari. In their grandfather's time, the forest was full of animals -- but today the forest is quiet. Where have the animals gone?"--
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests. Fish and other animals that depended on the kelp were lost, too. But when people protected the sea otters with new laws,...
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