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Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2018, c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yosemite National Park, located in Northern California, is known to have some of the most stunning views in all of the United States, from its granite cliffs down into the Yosemite Valley. Readers will learn about when it officially became a national park, who was involved, the park's climate, and plants and animals that are commonly found there.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2018, c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Glacier National Park, located in northwest Montana, is known and named for its many glaciers. Readers will learn about when it officially became a national park, who was involved, the park's climate, and plants and animals that are commonly found there.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2018, c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everglades National Park, located in southern Florida, boasts many different ecosystems, plants, and animals. Readers will learn about when it officially became a national park, who was involved, the park's climate, and plants and animals that are commonly found there.
6) Winter study
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visiting an isolated Lake Superior isle to study wolf behavior, ranger Anna Pigeon joins a scientific group that subsequently discovers unusual DNA evidence suggesting that a giant and dangerous wolf hybrid has been introduced by an unknown source.
7) Blood lure
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
A park ranger solves a mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information for young readers about the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, including its location, how it was built, the faces that are carved into the side of the mountain, and their size.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and-perhaps most heartbreaking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2018, c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, located in North Carolina and Tennessee, is known for the grand amount of plants and animals that thrive there (more than 10,000 species!). Readers will learn about when it officially became a national park, who was involved, the park's climate, and plants and animals that are commonly found there.
12) Borderline
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.
13) Her right foot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jenny Calhoun climbs mountains to forget what she's done, who she was. But this time, when an excursion up Denali turns deadly, she is forced to accept the help of the one man she hoped she'd never see again--the man she nearly killed"--Provided by publisher.
16) Back of beyond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists...
Author
Publisher
Bison Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Power of Scenery tells the story of how America's national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted's insights and energy serving to link three jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
Author
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information for young readers about the Statue of Liberty, including when it was built and why, its location, how tall the statue is, what it's made out of, and the significance of the tablet in the statue's hand.
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