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  • Heart of a ShepherdLogin to Hold

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    Heart of a Shepherd

    Rosanne Parry

    When Brother's dad is shipped off to Iraq, along with the rest of his reserve unit, Brother must help his grandparents keep the ranch going. He’s determined to maintain it just as his father left it, in the hope that doing so will ensure his father’s safe return. The hardships Brother faces will not only change the ranch, but also reveal his true calling. This book needs to be returned. 
  • How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and TeachersLogin to Hold

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    How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers

    Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle

    In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity—and an increasing responsibility—to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden?
  • Hungry Planet- What the World EatsLogin to Hold

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    Hungry Planet- What the World Eats

    Peter Menzel

    The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Ag Today - Issue 4Login to Hold

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    Ag Today – Issue 4

    National Agriculture in the Classroom

    This six part series is a publication of National Agriculture in the Classroom. Issue four looks at how the global movement of agriculture products continue to be driven by economics, and consumer demand and preferences. Agriculture, food, and natural resource systems continue to play an integral role in the evolution of societies both in the United States and the world. Teacher guide is included.Check out the e-book version and online teacher guide! Please put the number of students in your class in the quantity section at checkout to ensure the correct number of supplies gets to you.Additional publications: Ag Today Issue 1, Ag Today Issue 2Ag Today Issue 3, Ag Today Issue 5, Ag Today Issue 6This item doe not need to be returned.
  • Inside Oregon's ForestsLogin to Hold

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    Inside Oregon’s Forests

    Oregon Forest Resource Institute

    This book contains many lesson plans about forestry for high school students, including lessons on ecology and wildlife.
  • Inside PlantsLogin to Hold

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    Inside Plants

    Miles Kelly

    This very fun and wonderfully illustrated book will help students discover how plants work. From germination all the way to photosynthesis with the help of amazing illustrations, cutaway views, magnified insects and detailed photographs. This book will need to be returned.
  • Into the ForestLogin to Hold

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    Into the Forest

    Oregon Forest Resources Institute

    Into the Forest is a lively and colorful book on forestry for fifth- and sixth-grade students. The student book is 24 pages and gives an overview of Oregon forests, including forest ecology, tree biology, forest management, forest careers and balancing economic, ecological and social values. It includes puzzles and activities for students. 1 teacher guide will be included with a class set. These do not need to be returned. 
  • Investigating Plants: Hands-OnLogin to Hold

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    Investigating Plants: Hands-On, Low-Cost Laboratory

    Thomas Sinclair, Marty Jones

    The exercises in this manual were developed and tested by seventh graders. These young students were quick to demonstrate a hands-on approach to testing which of the experiments in this book were successful and which were not. Their excitement in doing these activities were important and proved that "Science is Fun." A great resource for year-around use in the classroom. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?Login to Hold

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    Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?

    Patricia Brennan Demuth

    Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. Her life and times are captured in engaging text and 80 black-and-white illustrations.
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    John Deere, That’s Who!

    Tracy Nelson Maurer

    Back in the 1830s, John Deere was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history. He moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo. Hee tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please. Long before the first tractor, John Deere changed farming forever. This book will need to be returned.
  • Life in the Forest: Get to know Oregon's forest wildlifeLogin to Hold

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    Life in the Forest: Get to know Oregon’s forest wildlife

    Oregon Forest Resources Institue

    Life in the Forest is a 24-page, full-color publication designed to assist students in understanding how forests provide habitat for different wildlife species.   It highlights current wildlife research and presents data for students to analyze. It is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
  • Manual for Judging Oregon SoilsLogin to Hold

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    Manual for Judging Oregon Soils

    Herbert Huddleson, Gerald F. Kling

    Covers soil basics such as soil formation, horizons, properties (including textural classes), profiles, site characteristics and evaluation, and the influences of soil characteristics on management decisions.This book needs to be returned. 
  • Math in the gardenLogin to Hold

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    Math in the garden

    Jennifer M. White, Katharine D. Barrett, Jaine Kopp, Christine Manoux, Katie Johnson, Yvette McCullough

    This engaging curriculum uses a mathematical lens to take children on an education-filled journey in the garden. Dozens of trial-tested, standards-based activities hone math skills while promoting inquiry, language arts and nutrition.
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    Migrant

    Jose Manuel Mateo

    "A Mexican boy tells of his journey to the U.S. with his family. They must face many dangers to cross the border, only to experience the uncertainty felt by many undocumented immigrants. The narrative is accompanied by one long, beautifully vivid illustration reminiscent of pre-Hispanic codices, packaged as an accordion-style foldout frieze.Un niño mexicano habla de su viaje a los Estados Unidos con su familia. Deben enfrentar muchos peligros para cruzar la frontera, solo para tropezar con la incertidumbre que sienten muchos inmigrantes indocumentados. La narración se acompaña de una ilustración larga, bellamente vívida que recuerda a los códices prehispánicos, empaquetados como un friso desplegable en forma de acordeón."
  • NW Food WheelLogin to Hold

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    NW Food Wheel

    The Northwest wheel shows foods sourced from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as well as from coastal waters. Some of the unique local foods available in the region include an abundance of wild and cultivated berries, unique seafood items like geoduck!The wheel is 12 inches in diameter printed on card stock in bright, full color by GreenerPrinter in Berkeley, CA. On the back of the wheel is an alphabetical seasonality reference that provides additional information about each of the foods depicted on the front.
  • Oddhopper Opera: A Bug's Garden of VersusLogin to Hold

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    Oddhopper Opera: A Bug’s Garden of Versus

    Kurt Cyrus

    Put an ear to the ground for the clicking, popping, snapping music of this garden grown wild. In verse as witty as it is buggy, Kurt Cyrus conducts a chirruping chorus of voices great and small. From a stinkbug trying (and failing) to hide itself, to a cicada's struggle to escape its own skin, to an ant's marathon dinner march, and a frog's identity crisis, here is a garden teeming with down-to-earth fun for readers of every species--no matter how many legs they have! This book needs to be returned. Oregon author and illustrator Kurt Cyrus signed copies!