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  • The Reason for a FlowerLogin to Hold

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    The Reason for a Flower

    Ruth Heller

    The reason for a flower is to manufacture seeds, but Ruth Heller shares a lot more about parts of plants and their functions in her trademark rhythmic style.
  • The Tortilla FactoryLogin to Hold

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    The Tortilla Factory

    Gary Paulsen

    This book features beautiful illustrations and a simple story of the planting and processing of corn to provide the ingredients for the tortilla factory. This book will need to be returned.
  • VegetablesLogin to Hold

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    Vegetables, Vegetables – Rookie Read Series

    Allan Fowler

    This book is part of the Rookie Read Series. This focuses on vegetables. These are easy to read, perfect for beginning readers to learn about agriculture.This book needs to be returned. 
  • The Tree Book: For Kids and Their Grown-upsLogin to Hold

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    The Tree Book: For Kids and Their Grown-ups

    Gina Ingoglia, ASLA

    Ho do trees grow? Why do their leaves change color? What kind of tree is that? After you and your children read this book, you will know!! A great read at any age. This book needs to be returned. 
  • The Tree FarmerLogin to Hold

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    The Tree Farmer

    Chuck Leavell

    A Grandson confronts his Grandfather, a tree farmer, about how he can grow trees with so much love and care, only to cut them down. But as they walk together through the trees, they discover the majesty of the forest and enjoy the life journey of each tree. The Tree Farmer takes young readers on a magical journey through the forest, in a tale of the gifts of trees and our responsibility to care for trees, generation to generation. The companion book to The Gift of Trees lesson plan and The Gift of Trees Kit. Please check the kit out separately from the book. This book needs to be returned. 
  • The Tree FarmerLogin to Hold

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    The Tree Farmer

    Chuck Leavell

    A Grandson confronts his Grandfather, a tree farmer, about how he can grow trees with so much love and care, only to cut them down. But as they walk together through the trees, they discover the majesty of the forest and enjoy the life journey of each tree. The Tree Farmer takes young readers on a magical journey through the forest, in a tale of the gifts of trees and our responsibility to care for trees, generation to generation. The companion book to The Gift of Trees lesson plan and The Gift of Trees Kit. Please check the kit out separately from the book.
  • The Ugly VegetablesLogin to Hold

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    The Ugly Vegetables

    Grace Lin

    In this charming story about celebrating differences a Chinese-American girl wishes for a garden of bright flowers instead of one full of bumpy, ugly, vegetables. The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of "black-purple-green vines, fuzzy wrinkled leaves, prickly stems, and a few little yellow flowers" that she and her mother grow. Nevertheless, mother assures her that "these are better than flowers." Come harvest time, everyone agrees as those ugly Chinese vegetables become the tastiest, most aromatic soup they have ever known. As the neighborhood comes together to share flowers and ugly vegetable soup, the young gardener learns that regardless of appearances, everything has its own beauty and purpose.
  • There's a Map on My Lap!Login to Hold

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    There’s a Map on My Lap!

    Tish Rabe

    The Cat in the Hat introduces beginning readers to maps–the different kinds (city, state, world, topographic, temperature, terrain); their formats (flat, globe, atlas, puzzle); the tools we use to read them (symbols, scales, grids, compasses); and funny facts about the places they show us. This book will need to be returned.
  • The Wheat We Eat - Rookie Read SeriesLogin to Hold

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    The Wheat We Eat – Rookie Read Series

    Allan Fowler

    This book is part of the Rookie Read Series. This focuses on wheat. These are easy to read, perfect for beginning readers to learn about agriculture.This book needs to be returned. 
  • Vegetables on MyPlateLogin to Hold

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    Vegetables on MyPlate

    Vegetables are tasty, crunchy, and healthy. Learn about how MyPlate helps kids make great food choices every day, including vegetables! This book will need to be returned.
  • Til the Cows Come HomeLogin to Hold

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    Til the Cows Come Home

    Jodi Icenoggle

    The author lassos a traditional Jewish folktale, “The Button Story”, sets it in the American West, and rigs it up with tongue-tingling cowboy language to create an engaging story. A young cowboy, gifted in making saddles and bridles, receives a sturdy, soft-as-silk piece of leather from a grateful cowpuncher and stitches it into a pair of “whoopi-ti-yi-yo chaps.” Follow the leather through the young cowboy’s life. The companion book to the Ag Tag Matching Game lesson plan and the Ag Tag Matching Game Kit. Please check the kit out separately.
  • Watching the Seasons - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

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    Watching the Seasons – Welcome Books

    Edana Eckart

    This book will provide your students with a fun and exciting introduction to reading about the people, places, and exciting thing around them every season. This book will need to be returned.
  • The Year at Maple Hill FarmLogin to Hold

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    The Year at Maple Hill Farm

    Alice and Martin Provensen

    This book is about farm animals, and what happens during one year on a farm. In January, the cows stay in the barnyard, and the chickens don't lay many eggs. By March, you can tell spring is coming: the barn is filled with baby animals. Month by month, the animals at Maple Hill Farm sense the changing seasons and respond to the changes. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Time for CranberriesLogin to Hold

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    Time for Cranberries

    Lisl H. Detlefsen

    From the cranberry bog to the Thanksgiving table, join Sam and his family as they harvest a classic American fruit. When the vines hang heavy with berries that the autumn winds have turned deep red, it's time for cranberries, and Sam is finally old enough to help with the harvest! This charming, lyrical picture book follows Sam and his family as they raise the water in the bog, pick the cranberries, and gather the fruit for processing. It's a story of modern family farming in action, showing readers where their food comes from but mostly delighting them along the way! This book will need to be returned.
  • To MarketLogin to Hold

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    To Market, To Market

    Nikki McClure

    Today is market day.  We hear the bell ringing. Everyone is gathering. The whole town is here ready to celebrate the joy of food. As a young boy and his mother shop for apples and cheese, smoked salmon, and green kale, the author shows how each item is grown or made and introduces the farmers and artisans who work so hard to fill tables and tummies. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Tomas and the Library LadyLogin to Hold

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    Tomas and the Library Lady

    Pat Mora

    Tomás is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduous days in the fields. At night they gather around to hear Grandfather's wonderful stories. But before long, Tomás knows all the stories by heart. "There are more stories in the library,"Papa Grande tells him. The very next day, Tomás meets the library lady and a whole new world opens up for him. Based on the true story of the Mexican-American author and educator Tomás Rivera, a child of migrant workers who went on to become the first minority Chancellor in the University of California system, this inspirational story suggests what libraries--and education--can make possible.