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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The 14 trees in this book have earned the title "Celebritrees" for their global fame and significance. Both in fact and in legend, these fascinating trees remind us not only how much pleasure trees bring, but what they can tell us about history.
2) Winter trees
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Trees that once had leaves are bare. They're dressed instead in lacy white. Snow dusts their trunks and coats their limbs with flakes that outline them with light." Join a boy and his dog as they use their senses of sight and touch to identify seven common trees in the snow covered forest. Intricate illustrations and lyrical text make distinguishing different types of trees easy--even in the middle of winter, when only bare branches stand like skeletons...
3) Tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects.
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"Readers will discover that trees have their own social network, and helping one another thrive is trending. The fascinating mycorrhizal fungi network runs underground through the forest via the roots of trees, allowing for connection and communication. Listen to the Language of the Trees captures the magic of talking trees that take care of their neighbors (not to mention the mysterious fungi that help them do it). A lyrical read aloud, Listen to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A bright and colorful introduction to trees, leaves, and their inner workings. Trees shelter and surround us. Their leaves offer shade from the hot summer sun. In autumn, they dazzle us with color. In winter, they stand tall against a cold and snowy background. Trees may look solitary, but each one is teeming with life. Tell Me, Tree is a child's guide to the wide variety of trees that surround us, including how to identify them the structure of...
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"If you are fortunate enough to live on property that includes trees, The tree doctor is the ideal manual for care and maintenance. This is a comprehensive volume that includes information on tree identification, tips regarding what makes a good city tree, proper planting and pruning techniques and how to get the most value out of your trees."--
12) Picture a tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Explores in words and pictures different ways of seeing and experiencing trees"--
14) The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
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"A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other."--
Are trees social beings? Forester and author Peter Wohlleben makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children,...
15) Leaf jumpers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Illustrations and rhyming text describe different leaves and the trees from which they fall.
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A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A...
20) Trees
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English
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"The clearest and sharpest definition guide to over 500 species of trees from around the world. Packed with more than 1,600 photographs and illustrations with precise annotations to make identification sure and simple. In this fully revised and updated edition, concise and jargo-free text pinpoints the key characteristics of each species and provides quick, accessible information"--
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