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Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 12
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The golden age which is expected from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree turns gradually worse as the owls' young king hunts for the truth about his ancestry.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
46) Winter trees
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A boy and his dog walk through a wintry forest and identify seven common trees.
47) Tree girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived, nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree she can just barely see from her home at the edge of the sea-especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
Author
Description
In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters--men and women, hotshots, smoke jumpers, and helicopter crew--would lose their lives battling the deadly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Which plants are carnivorous? What's the smelliest plant in the world? And what is the most bizarre-looking flower? This eye-opening book explores the amazing diversity of the natural world, examining how plants grow, reproduce, defend themselves, and survive against the odds in some of the harshest climates on Earth. Packed with pop-ups, booklets, and flaps and accompanied by detailed artwork, this hands-on, fact-packed guide explains key curriculum...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This nonfiction picture book, written and illustrated by Mia Posada, beautifully explains why leaves change color in fall. It highlights both the eye-catching colors of the season and the science behind the colors. Back matter offers additional scientific details for curious readers as well as suggested further reading and links to hands-on activities.
54) The dead boys
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, eats children and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be dead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. And for as long as he can remember, the old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. That is, until a new family—with a particularly annoying girl his age—moves into the neighboring house and, without warning, cuts it down. Oak doesn’t understand why her family had to move to Southern California. She has to attend a new school,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more.
Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel...
60) Forest Born
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Rin has always been a quiet, helpful girl, but a secret has been eating away at her, and the solace Rin once could find among the tall trees surrounding her forest home has vanished. When she leaves home to join her older brother in the city, she finds intriguing answers to her questions, an adventure she doesn't expect, and a sense of self she never thought she would find.