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26441) Two roads
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Gibbs Smith
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[2020]
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"Introduce brilliant babies to the world around them with Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Little Poet Robert Frost: Two Roads introduces toddlers to Frost's beloved poem, "The Road Not Taken" through Kate Coombs' sweet story, the entire Frost poem spread throughout the book, and Carme Lemniscates' beautiful and engaging art, teaching them when you can Be Adventurous and Be Yourself, that can make all the difference. Take a walk, chose a path,...
26442) The last beekeeper
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To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, twelve-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything.
In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. From the crops that don't grow to the terrifying creatures that roam the countryside, Yoly's life in the Valley is brutal...
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We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crises, longstanding, are ongoing.
In Hope Against Hope, the Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation...
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2022.
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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Introduction - Trip Highlights Chart - Locator Map - MASSACHUSETTS: TRIP 1: Observation Tower Trail-Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield - TRIP 2: Rockery Trail-Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield - TRIP 3: Pingree Forest Trail- Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, Georgetown - TRIP 4: Cedar Point Trail-The Crane Reservation at Castle Hill, Ipswich - TRIP 5: Great House Formal Gardens and Estate Trail-The Crane Reservation at Castle Hill,...
26448) Eight days gone
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Depicts, in brief verse and illustrations, the 1969 Apollo 11 mission when man first walked on the moon.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2024
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Meet Megalodon and more of the biggest, coolest, and creepiest marine animals from the prehistoric era!
Teeth, tails, and scales—oh my! Newly independent readers will be transported back to a time when bugs were big and monsters ruled the deep. Each page of this dazzling Level 2 reader is packed with jaw-dropping facts on the fiercest predators of the ancient oceans. Learn about Megalodon, the largest shark ever to have lived; Jaekelopterus,
26453) Colors of nature
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Creative Edition
Pub. Date
2017.
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"In this illustrated board book, common colors are associated with images indicative of the seasons of the year, from the green buds of spring through the gray cold of winter"--
26454) The grandad tree
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
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The changing nature of their apple tree, as it grows and goes through the seasons, reminds Leigh and Vin of their grandfather, who is gone but lives on in their memories.
26455) Skulls!
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019
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A non-fiction picture book about skulls, and all the things they are good for.
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An interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monsters through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation.
Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives: film and media studies, cultural studies, queer theory, Tolkien...
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In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions.
The stories of this medical and...
26459) Lanie's real adventures
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American Girl
Pub. Date
2010
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Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants.
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Library of America volume 340
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E. O. Wilson, a masterful writer-scientist whose graceful prose is equal to his groundbreaking discoveries. These books illuminate the evolution and complex beauty of our imperiled ecosystems and the flora, fauna, and civilization they sustain, even as they reveal the personal evolution of one of the greatest scientific minds of our age. Here are the lyrical,...
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