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Finding Wild

Megan Wagner Lloyd · 32 pages

A lovely, lyrical picture book with gorgeous illustrations that explores the ways the wild makes itself known to us and how much closer it is than we think.

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Owl Moon

Jane Yolen · 32 pages

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

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Come On, Rain!

Karen Hesse

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

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All the Places to Love

Patricia MacLachlan

A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.

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In November

Cynthia Rylant · 32 pages

Describes the autumn activities and traditions that November's cooling temperatures bring.

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Once Upon a Memory

Nina Laden

"A journey through the various cycles of growing up, from a garden that began as a single seed to a child remembering that he was once small"--

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Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

Joyce Sidman · 32 pages

In spring red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. In winter green waits in the hearts of trees, feeling the earth turn. Color comes alive in this whimsical, innovative book. Blue dances on summer lakes, green drips from spring leaves, black wafts mysteriously through autumn evenings. Together, an award-winning poet and a brilliant painter inspire u

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House Held Up by Trees

Ted Kooser

Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.

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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Mordicai Gerstein · 40 pages

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

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Blueberry Girl

Neil Gaiman · 31 pages

Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.

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And Then It's Spring

Julie Fogliano

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmAD600L Lexile

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On the Night You Were Born

Nancy Tillman · 32 pages

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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

Margarita Engle · 44 pages

Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

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Barnyard Dance

Sandra Boynton

A bespectacled fiddle-playing cow and a pig twirling a sheep are featured in a barnyard dance. On board pages with a die-cut cover.

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This House, Once

Deborah Freedman · 46 pages

This poetically simple, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated book invites readers to think about where things come from and what nature provides.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick · 534 pages

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen

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One Tiny Turtle

Nicola Davies · 32 pages

This lyrical and informative look at the elusive and endangered loggerhead turtle is sure to delight young nature lovers. Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Until, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach wher

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My Mama Had a Dancing Heart

Libba Moore Gray · 32 pages

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Green

Laura Vaccaro Seeger

¿Cuántos tipos de verde hay? Está en el verde de un bosque en un día de primavera; el verde fresco, jugoso, de un limón recién cortado; el verde incandescente de una luciérnaga; o el v̕ívido verde agua de un mar tropical. En este libro, Laura Vaccaro Seeger hace un homenaje al color verde y crea un libro que deleitará y soprenderá al lector.

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Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle

Miranda Paul · 40 pages

"A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways"--

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The Fox and the Star

Coralie Bickford-Smith · 64 pages

"The Fox and the Star is the story of a friendship between a lonely Fox and the Star who guides him through the frightfully dark forest. Illuminated by Star's rays, Fox forages for food, runs with the rabbits, and dances in the rain--until Star suddenly goes out and life changes, leaving Fox huddling for warmth in the unfamiliar dark. To find his missing Star, Fox must embark on a wondrous journey

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo · 228 pages

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost...Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustl

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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

William Joyce · 56 pages

Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.

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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Paul Goble · 32 pages

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

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