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Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the various landscapes of America, from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wildlands to the giant sequoias of California, relating the parent-child relationship to these natural settings.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Jefferson, who was wild about numbers, read a book about America by a famous Frenchman, who insisted America was a horrible place, Jefferson set out to prove to the world that the new nation was nothing like that.
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 92
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This rhyming non-fiction picture book tells about Thomas Jefferson's quest to find a woolly mammoth to disprove French Count Buffon's assertion that the animals of the New World are weak"--
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Discover fun facts about all 62 national parks of the United States. Learn about the animals that make their homes in the forests, deserts, caves, and mountains of the national parks, and the amazing species of trees and plants, from the giant sequoia trees of Sequoia, to the geysers of Yellowstone. Special features of each park are highlighted, from secret caves to endangered animals."--
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
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