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The Plant Hunters
True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth

Melanie Kroupa Books
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and...
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How Oliver Olson Changed the World

Square Fish
Oliver Olson’s teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents...
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The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

Square Fish
Once you’ve finally captured the most enormous frog in Carter, Georgia, what exactly are you supposed to do with it?
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Desert Elephants

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Each year the desert elephants of Mali, West Africa, travel a 300-mile path to search for water. They peacefully pass through the lands of the Tuareg, Dogon,...
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The Arm of the Starfish

Square Fish
Characters from Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet and Austin Family Chronicles cross paths in this story that explore the timeless themes of love, chance, and...
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Meadowlands
A Wetlands Survival Story

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A New York Times Notable Children's Book for 2011 One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as...
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Energy Island
How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world

Frances Foster Books
Hold onto your hats! It's windy on the Danish island of Samso. Meet the environmentally friendly people who now proudly call their home Energy Island. At a...
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Signal

Square Fish
After moving with his father to upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer . . . until he meets a girl who may be a space alien....
  
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Madlenka

Square Fish
"'In the universe, on a planet, one a continent, in a country, in a city, on a block, in a house, in a window, in the rain, a little girl named Madlenka finds...
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Alabama Moon

Square Fish
After losing his father, a boy has to find a way to survive on his own.

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7 x 9 = Trouble!

Sunburst Paperbacks
Wilson Williams worries about passing his times-table tests Wilson has a hard time with math, especially with Mrs. Porter's timed multiplication tests. If...
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Planting the Trees of Kenya
The Story of Wangari Maathai

Frances Foster Books
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the...
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The Tree of Life
Charles Darwin

Frances Foster Books
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly...
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Starry Messenger
Galileo Galilei

Square Fish
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to...
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My Mom

Sunburst Paperbacks
We first meet Mom over a cup of coffee, clad in a floral robe. The robe is ever present as her child describes her wondrous abilities and traits. The ultimate...
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Snow

Square Fish
"It's snowing, said boy with dog. "It's only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard. No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not...
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How I Learned Geography

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father...
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Troubling a Star
The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 5
Austin Family

Square Fish
The Austins have settled back into their beloved home in the country after more than a year away. Though they had all missed the predictability and security of...
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Carl's Snowy Afternoon
Carl

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When Madeleine’s parents go to the Pond Party, they leave Carl and the baby at home for a cozy winter afternoon with a babysitter. But Carl and Madeleine have...
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The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle
Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt

Melanie Kroupa Books
Search for the secrets of a hidden tomb It is 1924, two years after the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. Readers are invited to join a young boy, Will Hunt, as...
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Brainstorm!
The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

Sunburst Paperbacks
Here are some of the incredible kid inventions you can read about in Brainstorm! Earmuffs (1873) Colored car wax (1991) Electronic television (1927) The...
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Antarctica

Square Fish
A beautiful, compelling book about the delicate balance of life for the creatures that live in Antarctica.
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Flying to the Moon
An Astronaut's Story

Sunburst Paperbacks
Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights.
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The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A look into a unique ecosystem, one that is endangered in many places A seed is jostled from a branch of a mangrove tree and floats to a lagoon in the...