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1) Enna burning
Author
Series
Bayern volume 2
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother dies, Enna leaves the city and her friends to move back home with her brother, Leifer. She thought life would be simpler and more manageable in the forest. But Enna's was not meant to be a simple life, and when Leifer brings home a mysterious piece of vellum and starts setting fires--without a spark, without flint--something seems wrong. Enna cannot decide if that something is a power she wants for herself, or if it's a power that...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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,...
4) Old Turtle
Author
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
All of nature argues about the forms of God, so people are sent as a reminder of all that God is, although they do not seem to understand the message themselves.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Merry, a small owl, yearns to go on a big adventure like the other birds in the forest and gets her wish when Hark, a Norway spruce, is picked to be the Rockefeller Christmas tree and both Merry and Hark are whisked away from their home. Based on the real-life tale of the tiny owl found in the 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity. A story for all ages.
8) Pond
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--
Author
Series
Critter Club volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unless Amy and her friends in the Critter Club can come up with an alternative plan, new stores are going to be built on the town's park, endangering the lives of the plants and animals living there.
Author
Publisher
Soho
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The loss is not total, though: the DNA sequences of many species are being digitized and uploaded to a global network of "biobanks," together with brain and body scans, recordings of behavior in the wild, microbiota profiles, and so forth, in the hope that the extinct victims of humanity's destructiveness might one day be resurrected. Then comes the day when the...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
13) On my mountain
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Both the perspective of the wolf and the shepherd are seen in this flippable picture book."--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Seuss's Lorax explains how the oceans help clean the air we breath, and why we should recycle and avoid throwing away plastic that can pollute water" --
15) On my mountain
Author
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Description
"Both the perspective of the wolf and the shepherd are seen in this flippable picture book."--
16) Heron street
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
17) Grasshopper
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this colorful and moving wordless picture book told from the up-close perspectives of a young girl and a grasshopper, a garden comes alive with creatures, plants, and surprises of nature.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When the people have deep questions about life, death, and how to find happiness, they journey to find Old Turtle, and she answers their questions with wisdom and love.
Author
Series
Alien skill volume 4
Publisher
PoCo Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen year old Ben Archer has accepted a mindboggling challenge: to help restore the balance between humans and the rest of the living world. But after a near brush with death in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, things only get worse when his alien skill attracts the attention of Jeremy Michaels, a reporter from the Provincial Times. At first, slipping away to a small costal town for a summer camp seems like a good idea, but Ben's hopes of a...
20) Habitat for Bats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After waking up to find a bat in his room, Jimmy decides to figure out why the bat wasn't sleeping in its own home.