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Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a forest "lost" by a surveying error—and all the flora and fauna to be found there
A forest, of course, doesn't need a map to know where to grow. But people need a map to find it. And in 1882 when surveyors set out to map a part of Minnesota, they got confused, or tired and cold (it was November), and somehow mapped a great swath of ancient trees as a lake. For more than seventy-five years, the mistake stayed on
...Author
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sighting of the rare frangipani fruit fly sends Lilly's scientist parents off in search of the fabled Shipwreck Islands. In this Smithsonian's Notable Book for Children, Lilly awaits their return at the home of her great-uncle Ernest, the chief librarian of Mundelaine, a town that seems to have more than its share of piratical-looking characters lurking about. When news comes that her parents' ship has wrecked, she must overcome her fear of the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Big Momma, with a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, makes the world and everything in it and at the end of the sixth day, tells the people she has made that they must take care of her creation.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss her in return for the milk she gives.
10) Snowy Sunday
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English