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| Title | A Place For Butterflies |
| Author | Melissa Stewart |
| Illustrator | Higgins Bond |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • biology • butterflies • ecology • nature guide • science • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Some lucky children know the names of their backyard birds and some flowers, but how many children know the names of the butterflies they see flitting about? We're so lucky...
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| Title | Adventures of Riley: Tigers in Terei |
| Author | Amanda Lumry, Laura Hurwitz |
| Illustrator | Sarah McIntyre |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • animals • ecology • endangered animals • endangered species • environment • picture books • tigers • wildlife • wildlife biologists • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Story of a boy and his family travelling to lowland jungle regions of Nepal to research dwindling tiger population. Illustrated with drawings and inset photographs with informational text. One in...
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| Title | Bag in the Wind |
| Author | Ted Kooser |
| Illustrator | Barry Root |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • conservation • ecology • journeys • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • recycling • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Don't you hate to see those bags caught in the trees along the side of the road? What if you followed one of those bags from the landfill where it...
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| Title | Behold the Trees |
| Author | Sue Alexander |
| Illustrator | Leonid Gore |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | books that make a difference • ecology • environment • Israel • middle reader • multicultural • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • trees |
Follow the story of the land in the Middle East that became Israel. It was a land of shepherds and kings, of Romans and Turks. As the story goes, so...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | Being Caribou Five Months On Foot With a Caribou Herd |
| Author | Karsten Heuer |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • Caribou • ecology • journeys • middle reader • migration • nature • non-fiction • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne Allison, are the only humans to ever have joined the 100,000 caribou on one of the most astonishing migrations on earth. The caribou travel...
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| Title | Butterfly House, The |
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| Illustrator | Greg Shed |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • butterflies • caterpillars • cycles • ecology • kindness • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
A little girl finds a small black worm and saves it from a blue jay who wants to eat it for lunch. She takes the little worm inside and her...
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| Title | Charlie’s Raven |
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Keywords | adventure • ecology • family • raven • grandfather |
Our connection to the natural world is celebrated in this story of thirteen-year-old Charlie and his raven, Blue Sky. Charlie’s grandfather is ill and Charlie wants to help him through...
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| Title | Curious Garden |
| Author | Peter Brown |
| Illustrator | Peter Brown |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • books that make a difference • city living • cities • ecology • environment • insights • inspiration • nature • persistence • plants • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • stories that make a difference • values • Seeker/Leader |
"On the west side of Manhattan there is an old, elevated railway called the Highline" that is now "shut down and forgotten." But, "without people and trains getting in the...
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| Title | Day the Stones Walked, The |
| Author | T.A. Barron |
| Illustrator | William Low |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • books that make a difference • choices • danger • disasters • Easter Island • ecology • environment • family • fathers/sons • multicultural • picture books • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • responsibility • sensitivity • stories that make a difference • supernatural • surprise • suspense • wisdom • tsunamis |
A young boy, his father, the stone carver, Easter Island and the giant wave that came one day are the focus of this book which shows the danger that comes...
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| Title | Do Martians Recyle? |
| Author | Sharon Gribbin-Lindemon |
| Illustrator | Sharon Gribbin-Lindemon |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Young Listeners (Ages 1-3) • Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Earth • ecology • environment • preschooler • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • recycling • responsibility • rhyme • role-models • thoughtful • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
We can change our world in lots of little ways by saving foil or turning off a light or two. How about you?
We all know about Martians-they're green right?...
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| Title | Down Down Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea |
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| Illustrator | Steve Jenkins |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Young Listeners (Ages 1-3) • Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • biology • ecology • exploration • Independent reader • independent readers • information • journeys • middle readers • non-fiction • ocean • picture books • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's • science • sea creatures • young listener • Answerman |
More people have walked on the moon than have been to the deepest part of the ocean. Does that get your curiosity moving? This is a fantastic...
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| Title | Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau |
| Author | Dan Yaccarino |
| Illustrator | Dan Yaccarino |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • accidents • ambition • biography • courage • curiosity • ecology • environment • exploration • explorers • finding yourself • innovations • inventions • Marine animals • middle readers • non-fiction • ocean • overcoming obstacles • perseverance • quests • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • science • scientist • sea creatures • submarines • teamwork • travel • treasure • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
This book would be a wonderful read-aloud to hook younger students (ages 5, 6, 7) at the beginning of a unit about oceans and ocean life. It would also...
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| Title | Frog Scientist |
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| Illustrator | Andy Comins |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • biology • ecology • endangered species • environment • experiments • frogs • inspiration • middle readers • nature • older reader • science • science activities • scientist • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Do you love to hear the frogs and toads call in the spring? Do you know that our little amphibious friends are in trouble? Their populations are...
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| Title | Girlwood |
| Author | Claire Dean |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | girls • change • ecology • environment • family • finding yourself • friends • friendship • loss • nature • older readers • running away • superpowers |
After her sister's disappearance, twelve-year-old Polly tries to reconcile her broken family, save her beloved local forest from developers and learn to cope with her unusual talents. During her personal...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Hoot |
| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • ecology • If You Liked Frindle • middle readers • mystery • Newbery Honor • owls • realistic fiction • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • 5th Grade Read Alouds |
Roy Eberhardt is the new kid at Trace Middle School, and he's facing bullies again, but this time he finds more to life than just bullies. As he looks out...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming |
| Author | Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • climate change • ecology • environment • global warming • middle reader • non-fiction • science • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
We all hear a lot about global warming and the challenges that it creates for our generation and the generations to come. How do we know about global warming and...
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| Title | If I Ran the Rain Forest: All About Tropical Rain Forests (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) |
| Author | Bonnie Worth |
| Illustrator | Aristides Ruiz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • conservation • ecology • environment • Independent reader • independent readers • information • middle reader • middle readers • rain forest • science • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
This time the Cat in the Hat is taking us deep inside a rain forest. What will we find there? Howler monkeys? Red-eyed tree frogs? Do you know the four...
Books » Fantasy
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| Title | Island of the Aunts |
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| Illustrator | Kevin Hawkes |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • girls • boys/girls • adventure • boys • ecology • fiction • If You Liked City of Ember • If You Liked Secrets of Droon • middle reader • mythical creatures • older reader • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Yearning to get away? Love the books where the children are on their own? This is a tale of three caring aunts who go in search of children to help...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | Julie (Julie of the Wolves) |
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| Illustrator | Wendell Minor |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | adventure • ecology • responsibility • wolves • Eskimos |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
This is the second book in the Julie of the Wolves trilogy. Julie’s story continues and her involvement with her beloved wolves takes on new directions as she needs to...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot |
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| Illustrator | Nic Bishop |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • animal rescue • animals • biology • birds • conservation • ecology • environment • wildlife • wildlife biologists • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
"On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth." This talented author/illustrator duo introduces us to the exotic parrot and...
Books » Fantasy
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| Title | Keys to the Kingdom, Book 2: Grim Tuesday |
| Author | Garth Nix |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) • Older Readers (Ages 11-13) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • boys • ecology • futuristic • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked Charlie Bone • If You Liked City of Ember • magic • middle reader • mythical creatures • older reader • part of a series • science fiction • series • Seeker/Leader |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
This is Book Two in the Keys to the Kingdom series. See Mister Monday for a description.
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Last Badge, The |
| Author | George McClements |
| Illustrator | George McClements |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • character • choices • conservation • ecology • endangered animals • endangered species • family • fathers/sons • frogs • fun • growing up • helping others • humor • journeys • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • scientist • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Samuel Moss has a challenge before him. He comes from a long line of Grizzly Scouts and every Moss Scout before him has earned the coveted place in the Album...
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| Title | Let's Read and Find Out Science: A Tree Is A Plant, Stage 1 |
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| Illustrator | Stacey Schuett |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • ecology • forests • independent readers • information • Let's Read And Find Out Science • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's • science • trees • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Let's Read and Find Out Science series continues.
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| Title | Let's Read and Find Out Science: Be A Friend to Trees, Stage 2 |
| Author | Patricial Lauber |
| Illustrator | Holly Keller |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books (Ages 3-8) • Independent Readers (Ages 6-8) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • ecology • independent readers • information • Let's Read And Find Out Science • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • science • trees • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Let's Read and Find Out Science series continues.
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| Title | Once a Wolf |
| Author | Stephen R. Swinburne |
| Illustrator | Jim Brandenburg |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Aldo Leopold • animals • ecology • L. David Mech • middle reader • nature • non-fiction • reluctant reader • Renee Askins • wildlife biologists • wolves • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
About a decade ago wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone National Park. It was an exciting time for those who wanted to protect the gray wolf in the United States. It...
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