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  • Potatoes - What's for LunchLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    Milk – What’s for Lunch

    This book explains the many different uses of milk. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the What’s for Lunch series. This book will need to be returned.
  • Milk to Ice Cream - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

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    Milk to Ice Cream – Welcome Books

    Inez Snyder

    In the short book "Milk to Ice Cream" readers follow Mark and his dad as they make homemade ice cream. With pictures for every step you can make your own ice cream! Vocabulary words in this book include: cream, freezer, ice cream, mixture, stirs, and vanilla. This book needs to be returned. 
  • My Chickens - Welcome BookLogin to Hold

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    My Chickens – Welcome Book

    Heather Miller

    Any young reader will be delighted to see farm kids both working and having fun with the farm animals under their care. Large print, colorful pictures and bold key words make these books easy for kids to read and understand. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Yum-Yum! — Wonderwise SeriesLogin to Hold

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    Yum-Yum! — Wonderwise Series

    Yum-Yum! is a book about munching, scrunching and slurping - in fact it's a book about eating. This book needs to be returned. 
  • My Cows - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 5 (of 5)

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    My Cows – Welcome Books

    Heather Miller

    Follow Chase as he helps his dad and brother on their dairy farm. Chase has two dairy cows of his own and shows students what he does every day to keep them happy so they give him lots of fresh milk. This book will need to be returned.
  • My Goats - Welcome SeriesLogin to Hold

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    My Goats – Welcome Series

    Heather Miller

    Meet Roberto and his kids! Kids are baby goats. In this book students will learn new vocabulary words while looking at extraordinary pictures. Vocabulary words in the book include: alfalfa, barn, beard, bottle, buck, doe, and kid. This book needs to be returned. 
  • My Horses - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

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    My Horses – Welcome Books

    Heather Miller

    Follow a young girl around as she tells you about her horses, and what she does every day to keep them happy and healthy. This book needs to be returned. 
  • My Pigs - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

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    My Pigs – Welcome Books

    Heather Miller

    A young boy describes how he cares for pigs on his farm. A perfect story for young readers. This book will need to be returned.
  • My Sheep - Welcome BooksLogin to Hold

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    My Sheep – Welcome Books

    Heather Miller

    Young readers learn what it is like to live on a sheep farm with the help of Audrey, a young sheep farmer! This book needs to be returned. 
  • Oh Say Can You SeedLogin to Hold

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    Oh Say Can You Seed?

    Bonnie Worth

    I'm the Cat in the Hat, and I think that you need to come take a look at this thing called a seed. This non-fiction book introduces beginning readers to seeds and plant life cycles. The companion book to the Living Necklace lesson plan and the Living Necklace Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned. 
  • 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!
  • One Plastic BagLogin to Hold

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    One Plastic Bag

    Isatou Ceesay and The Recycling Women of Gambia

    The inspiring true story of how one African women began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? In Njau, Gambia, people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag become two. Then ten. Then a hundred. The bags accumulated in ugly heaps alongside roads. Water pooled in them, bringing mosquitoes and disease. Some bags were burned, leaving behind a terrible smell. Some were buried, but they strangled gardens. They killed livestock that tried to eat them. Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. This inspirational true story shows how one person's actions really can make a difference in our world. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Oregon's Seasonal HarvestLogin to Hold

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    Oregon’s Seasonal Harvest

    Oregon Department of Agriculture

    This Oregon's Seasonal Harvest poster with original illustrations celebrates 63 of Oregon's diverse specialty crops! This item does not need to be returned.
  • Our Food - A Healthy Serving of Science and PoemsLogin to Hold

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    Our Food – A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems

    Grace Lin and Ranida T. McKneally

    Award-winning author Grace Lin joins science writer Ranida T. McKneally to get kids talking about the science of food, the five food groups, and what a healthy meal looks like. Answering questions like "why are so many vegetables green?", "What's the difference between brown bread and white bread?", and "Why do beans make you gassy?", cheerful haiku poems and a simple Q&A format make this book a nutritious treat. The information in this book aligns with both the USDA's MyPlate guidelines and the Harvard School of Public Health's Healthy Eating Plate guidelines and back matter includes further information about healthy eating and nutritional guidelines, as well as a glossary. This book will need to be returned.
  • Our School GardenLogin to Hold

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    Our School Garden

    Rick Swann

    New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? “Roly-poly!” he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends. This book needs to be returned. 
  • PancakesLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 14 (of 14)

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    Pancakes, Pancakes!

    Eric Carle

    Pancakes, Pancakes! by children's author and artist Eric Carle is about a boy named Jack who wakes up hungry and wants some pancakes for breakfast. BUT, first Jack has to gather wheat from the farmer, flour from the miller, eggs from the chickens, and milk from the cow. The companion book to the Breakfast Relay lesson plan and the Breakfast Relay Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned.