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  • UpLogin to Hold

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    Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time

    Jody Fickes Shapiro

    Myles and his family go to his grandparents' apple ranch, where they have a wonderful time picking and selling apples together. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Right This Very MinuteLogin to Hold

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    Right This Very Minute

    Lisl H. Detlefsen

    What's that you say? You're hungry? Right this very minute? Then you need a farmer. You have the stories of so many right here on your table! Award winners Lisl H. Detlefsen and Renee Kurilla's delicious celebration of food and farming is sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from - right this very minute! This book needs to be returned. 
  • S is for SalmonLogin to Hold

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    S is for Salmon

    Hannah Viano

    In this beautiful ABC book, C is for Crab; D is for Douglas fir; and E is for Eagle. Based on Pacific Northwest artist Hannah Viano’s regionally themed paper-cut art, this lovely children’s book sheds a new light on the ABCs that will appeal to young and old alike.
  • Seasons on a FarmLogin to Hold

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    Seasons on a Farm

    Nancy Dickmann

    This book uses colorful photos and simple text to introduce children to how the changing seasons affect life on a farm.
  • SFC's Grow Local School Garden Activity GuideLogin to Hold

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    SFC’s Grow Local School Garden Activity Guide

    Sustainable Food Center

    The Grow Local program's School Garden Activity Guide offers 23 hands-on activities for gardening, food systems, and cooking designed primarily for upper elementary and middle school, with extensions for older grades available. The activities can be used with multiple academic subjects and may take place inside the classroom and outside in the school garden.
  • SFC's Grow Local School Garden Start-Up GuideLogin to Hold

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    SFC’s Grow Local School Garden Start-Up Guide

    Sustainable Food Center

    SFC's Grow Local program's School Garden Start-up Guide offers steps for starting and sustaining a successful school garden. A school garden is a valuable tool for hands-on classroom learning for a wide variety of subjects. This guide focuses on getting organized, designing the garden, building and caring for the garden, managing the garden, and sustaining the garden.
  • Shanté Keys and the New Years PeasLogin to Hold

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    Shanté Keys and the New Years Peas

    Gail Piernas-Davenport

    Shanté Keys loves New Year's Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no--it'll be bad luck without them! So Shanté sets out to borrow some from the neighbors. On the way, she encounters a diversity of New Year's traditions.
  • SheepLogin to Hold

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    Sheep

    Robin Nelson

    Take a visit to the farm and learn about the features and roles of a sheep.
  • Soil - A True BookLogin to Hold

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    Soil – A True Book

    Christin Ditchfield

    Explore soils and how we can take care of them within the pages of this book . Great to pair with gardening books and a soils unit, also with AITC's hands-on soils lessons. Index and glossary included in book. This book will need to be returned.
  • Sonya's ChickensLogin to Hold

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    Sonya’s Chickens

    Phoebe Wahl

    Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.
  • Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Early Childhood EdLogin to Hold

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    Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Early Childhood Ed

    Erika Perloff, Amy Carlson, Jill Begin

    This book offers hands-on activities from the educators at Life Lab that teachers can incorporate into their curriculum and instruction to help students learn and lead healthy lives. Preschool-age children will engage all of their senses as they investigate and explore the joys of gardening. Your young students will develop a lifelong connection to the outdoors as they dig into the soil; observe birds, insects, and other critters in the garden; and enjoy the tastes of fresh fruits and vegetables they have helped to plant, harvest, and prepare.
  • Soybeans - an A to Z BookLogin to Hold

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    Soybeans – an A to Z Book

    Susan Anderson, Joanne Buggey

    Learn about soybeans from A-to-Z through the voice of a tractor named Agri-Culture. Everything your students want to know about soybeans is in this book. This book will need to be returned.
  • SpudsLogin to Hold

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    Spuds, Taters and the French Fry Kids

    Kathy Coatney

    Farmer Terry is a spud guy. He raises two varieties of potatoes, Russet Norkotah and Red. Farmer Terry planted his first potatoes in high school with his brother, John, and continues to grow them today. Text with photographs of Farmer Terry tells the story of how potatoes are grown. This book will need to be returned.
  • Sugar - A True BookLogin to Hold

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    Sugar – A True Book

    Elaine Landau

    This book explains the many different uses of sugar. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the A True Book series. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Sunflowers/GirasolesLogin to Hold

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    Sunflowers/Girasoles

    Grewndolyn Zepeda

    The tender relationship between grandparent and grandchild is illuminated in this children’s book. Children will sow and reap ideas of their own about ways to share a little joy, just as Marisol does with sunflowers.La relación entre un abuelo y un nieto está iluminada por este libro de niños. Los niños van a sembrar y cosechar sus propias ideas sobre maneras de compartir alegría, al igual que Marisol con sus girasoles.
  • The BeemanLogin to Hold

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    The Beeman

    Laurie Krebs, Valerie Cis

    Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper, this rhyming text offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the behavior of bees, including: where they live, how honey is made, and what a beekeeper does. The companion book to the Busy Bees lesson plan and the Busy Bees Kit. Please check the kit out separately.This book needs to be returned.