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  • Fresh-Picked PoetryLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 7 (of 3)

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    Fresh-Picked Poetry

    Michelle Schaub

    This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers’ market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown—it’s all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors’ wares with poems like “Farmer Greg’s Free-Range Eggs,” “Summer Checklist,” and “Necessary Mess.”
  • Forestry: America At WorkLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 5 (of 6)

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    Forestry: America At Work

    Jane Drake, Ann Love, Pat Cupples

    Forestry examines all aspects of the industry, from the planting of new seedlings to the inner workings of a sawmill and a pulp and paper mill. This engaging picture book uses a combination of fact and fiction to introduce young children to the people, machines and environmental concerns involved in one of America's most important resource-based industries. This book will need to be returned.
  • Four Quarts Makes a GallonLogin to Hold

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    Four Quarts Makes a Gallon

    Kathy Coatney

    For over 70 years, Farmer John has been a cow guy. Not much surprises him any more, except for the day quadruplet calves were born on his dairy. Text with photographs of Farmer John and his Four Quart Girls tell the story this special event. This book needs to be returned. Note: this book is also titled Dairy, From Farm to the Table.
  • Fresh-Picked PoetryLogin to Hold

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    Fresh-Picked Poetry – A Day at the Farmer’s Market

    Michelle Schaub

    This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers’ market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown—it’s all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors’ wares with poems like “Farmer Greg’s Free-Range Eggs,” “Summer Checklist,” and “Necessary Mess.” This book will need to be returned.
  • From Apple Trees to Cider PleaseLogin to Hold

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    From Apple Trees to Cider Please

    Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

    Grab the wagon, it's a bright autumn day and the trees are full of ripe, red apples! There's an apple festival underway at the farm and lots of work to do making cider. This visit finishes with a cider doughnut and a cup of freshly pressed cider. DELICIOUS! Told in crisp, action-driven rhymes from a young child's point of view, From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! is a realistic account of how apple cider is pressed, flavored with the charm and vigor of a harvest celebration.
  • From Egg to HoneybeeLogin to Hold

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    From Egg to Honeybee

    Lisa Owings

    How do honeybees grow? Follow each step in the life cycle--from tiny eggs in the hive to busy bees making honey--in this interesting book!
  • Vegetable GardenLogin to Hold

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    Vegetable Garden

    Douglas Florian

    Children are fascinated by watching plants grow, and in this colorful picture book even very young children can follow along with a family as they plant, tend, and harvest a vegetable garden. Follow along as the sun shines brightly, summer rain falls, and vegetables ripen! This book needs to be returned. 
  • From Flower to HoneyLogin to Hold

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    From Flower to Honey

    Robin Nelson

    This book describes the process of making honey, from a bee's collection of nectar to honey production on a beekeeper's farm.
  • From Grass to MilkLogin to Hold

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    From Grass to Milk

    Stacy Taus-Bolstad

    How does grass help cows make yummy milk? Follow each step in the food production cycle--from cows eating grass to ice-cold milk--in this fascinating book!
  • From Seed to PumpkinLogin to Hold

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    From Seed to Pumpkin

    Allan Fowler

    Emerging readers will enjoy the simple text that describes how a seed grows into a pumpkin. Large print, colorful pictures and bold vocabulary words make this book easy for students to read and understand.
  • From Milk to Ice CreamLogin to Hold

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    From Milk to Ice Cream

    Stacy Taus-Bolstad

    How does milk turn into frosty ice cream? Follow each step in the food production cycle--from milking a cow to eating a frozen treat--in this fascinating book!
  • From Sea to SaltLogin to Hold

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    From Sea to Salt

    Lisa Owings

    How does the salt in the sea become the salt you use at the dinner table? Follow each step in the process from evaporating the seawater to shipping the salt to a store in this fascinating book!
  • From Seed to Pumpkin- Welcome BookLogin to Hold

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    From Seed to Pumpkin- Welcome Book

    Allan Fowler

    Emerging readers will enjoy the simple text that describes how a seed grows into a pumpkin. Large print, colorful pictures and bolded vocabulary words make this book easy for students to read and understand. This book will need to be returned.
  • Wool Fiber in the MakingLogin to Hold

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    Wool Fiber in the Making

    Pendleton Mills

    A great hands-on kit that describes in detail the eight steps in woolen manufacturing. Your students can touch raw wool, view the pictures of the process and read about each step of the process.
  • Where Do Chicks Come From?Login to Hold

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    Where Do Chicks Come From?

    Have you ever seen a hen sitting on a nest of eggs? Have you wondered why she is sitting there? That hen is keeping her eggs warm until they are ready to hatch -- into chicks! But before a hen can lay her eggs, many things have to happen. In this simple introduction to the development of a fertilized egg into a chick, young readers are given a glimpse into the secret workings of the egg -- and the growing chick inside. This book needs to be returned. 
  • From Sheep to SweaterLogin to Hold

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    From Sheep to Sweater

    Robin Nelson

    How does sheep's wool turn into cozy clothing? Follow each step in the production cycle--from shearing a sheep to pulling on a warm sweater--in this fascinating book!