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8381) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Williams's year alone, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 traveled with a group of Mormons from England to the American West; intertwines ancestry, identity, philosophy, evolution, and our dependence on wilderness"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Nearly a year after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, survival has become harder than ever and Alex and Darla must risk everything to try to create a community that can withstand the ongoing disaster.
8386) The walk
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Formats
Description
"Set on the small farm in a New Mexico mountain valley that the author has tended since 1976, the book explores how personal history and natural history interweave in a familiar landscape. Three interrelated essays move from conflict and loss in the author's life to a place of acceptance"--Provided by publisher.
8387) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
8388) The balcony
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.
8389) The Rabbits
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Uses rabbits, a species introduced to Australia, to represent an allegory of the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the widespread environmental destruction caused by man throughout the continent. A sophisticated picture book. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
8390) Will & Whit
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
With the help of her two quirky friends, Autumn and Noel, sixteen-year-old Willhemena Huckstep tries to come to terms with her parents' tragic death. She busies herself by making lamps in her aunt's shop, Foxxden Antiques. It's not until tropical storm Whitney and a community art event come to town that Will is able to greet her biggest fear head-on and find hope despite her loss.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"One activist's story shows how indigenous communities can fight to protect their sacred lands-and win"--
Esta emotiva historia, de narrativa poética y bellas ilustraciones, recordará a los lectores la importancia de conservar la naturaleza, ser perseverantes y alzarse en defensa de uno mismo y de la comunidad.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Explores the history, events, and aftermath of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Features "Think about It" questions, two infographics, and two "In Their Own Words" special features"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Alaska, "the most anti-statist of the American states," has for decades provided high-profile flashpoints for battles between environmentalists and promoters of economic development. Haycox argues that Alaskans' strong anti-statist sentiments (deep distrust of and anger towards federal regulation and control) have greatly amplified and exacerbated the tensions and critical volleys fired between these long-feuding camps. A case study in federal-state...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Cheerful Milk and patient Mocha share their adorable slice-of-life adventures in this comic collection as they show how opposites really do attract. Featuring a never-before-seen story of how the internet's favorite bear duo met, this book delights readers with couple's sweet, relatable moments of happiness and love.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"The world's oceans represent the last wild frontier on Earth. While our understanding of life in the ocean is relatively basic, our actions are putting hundreds of species in danger. In this graphic anthology, Matt Dembicki, editor and an artist of the award- winning Trickster and District Comics, explores the adventures of twelve iconic endangered sea animals: hawksbill turtle, Bluefin tuna, hammerhead shark, giant clam, manatee, blue whale, coral,...
8400) Wild Life
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life charts the life, both real and imagined, of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens popular women's adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search and embarks on an adventure all her own, as she becomes lost in the dark and tangled...