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The brilliant deep: rebuilding the world's coral reefs : the story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation
Par Kate Messner, Matthew Forsythe. 2018
Looks at the life of the coral restoration pioneer Ken Nedimyer, from his early fascination with the ocean to his…
ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs. Grades K-3. 2018.Dinosaurs live on!: and other fun facts
Par Laura Lyn DiSiena, Hannah Eliot, Aaron Spurgeon. 2015
Go back in time with this dino-mite book of fun facts about fossils, pterodactyls, the T. rex, and more! Did…
you know that the Tyrannosaurus rex was up to forty-two feet in length? How about that the Triceratops had between 400 and 800 teeth? Or that some scientists believe that chickens are descendants of dinosaurs? Filled with tons of facts about dinosaurs, this book is sure to be a prehistoric hit! Grades K-3 and older readers. 2015.Who needs a swamp?: a wetland ecosystem (Ecosystem series.)
Par Karen Patkau. 2012
Swamps are often seen as a dangerous and useless. They are often drained to create farmland or to reduce diseases.…
But such measures can be disastrous. Explores wetlands and their importance in the food chain and in preserving our soil and clean water. Grades K-3. 2012. (Ecosystem series)Ankylosaur attack (Tales of prehistoric life)
Par Valerie Wyatt, Daniel Loxton, Jim W. W Smith. 2011
What did dinosaurs look like in their natural environment? Find out in this story of a young ankylosaur (a plant-eating,…
heavy-plated dinosaur) living along the banks of a grassy lake. When he encounters an old ankylosaur, he tries to make contact, only to be rebuffed. Then a T. rex attacks, and the youngster knows the old dinosaur is in grave danger. Can he come to the rescue in time? Grades K-3. 2011. (Tales of prehistoric life)You are stardust
Par Elin Kelsey, Soyeon Kim. 2012
Every tiny atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded long before we were born, and we are…
all connected to the natural world - we learn to speak the way baby birds learn to sing, and we shed more hair in the fall, like autumn leaves. Aims to reintroduce children to their innate relationship with the world around them. Grades K-3. 2012.Watch me grow!: a down-to-earth look at growing food in the city
Par Deborah Hodge, Brian Harris. 2011
You can grow food in a city anywhere - on windowsills, balconies, yards, boulevards and even rooftops. Follow the food…
from planting and tending to harvesting and eating. Learn about community gardens and community kitchens and about the friendships and sense of caring that grow as people tend their city gardens. K-3. c2011.Passage to freedom: the Sugigara story
Par Ken Mochizuki. 2003
Mochizuki tells the story of how Chiune Sugihara saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust while he was a…
diplomat in Lithuania in the early 1940's. When Japan refused his request to issue visas to the refugees Sugihara went ahead and wrote the visas anyway, allowing thousands of people to escape the country and Nazi persecution. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.Knights in shining armor
Par Gail Gibbons. 1995
Ladybug garden
Par Celia Godkin. 1997
When a gardener sprays his garden with a bug killer, he finds that some bugs die or escape the garden,…
but others thrive. He realizes that the bad bugs thrive and are killing his garden, so he puts more good bugs, especially the ladybugs, back into his garden. Grades K-3. 1997.Seeds of change: planting a path to peace
Par Jen Cullerton Johnson, Sonia Lynn Sadler. 2010
Story of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman, and environmentalist, to win a Nobel Peace Prize. As a young girl…
in Kenya, Wangari was taught to respect nature. She grew up loving the land, plants, and animals that surrounded her. Although most Kenyan girls were not educated, Wangari, curious and hardworking, was allowed to go to school. There, her mind sprouted like a seed. She excelled at science and went on to study in the United States. After returning home, Wangari blazed a trail across Kenya, using her knowledge and compassion to promote the rights of her countrywomen and to help save the land, one tree at a time. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2010.What did dinosaurs look like?
Par Monika Bell. 2008
This book of tactile images of dinosaurs is intended to be a supplement to information available from other sources. It…
features 11 dinosaurs that have different characteristics. One such characteristic is pointed out in an accompanying sentence in both braille and print. Grades K-3. 2008.Fossil Whisperer, The: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur
Par Helaine Becker, Sandra Dumais. 2022
A captivating look at the life of a modern-day fossil hunter who makes the find of a lifetime. Wendy has…
an eye for the unusual and is skilled at finding things that others don't see. On a middle school field trip, she spots one of those unusual things --- it's fossilized coral 100 million years old! Wendy's thrilled! And soon, she gets hooked on hunting fossils. She decides to turn her passion into her career and becomes known as the “fossil whisperer” around the world. But it's close to home where she makes her most amazing find: Wendiceratops! Make no bones about it, a dinosaur species named after you is way cool! Kids will be wondering: what might be buried where I live?What's in Flora's Shoebox?
Par Sarah Jane Conklin, Venus Angelica. 2022
Flora has been travelling all around the world and has seen wonderous things. How does she remember all the places…
she has been? Does she take artifacts home? Or does she buy souvenirs? What’s in Flora’s little red box under her bed?