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1) The island
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Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
4) The loop
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Hope, Montana is a ranching town whose roads were once paved in wolf skulls. When a pack of wolves returns to the area and livestock begin to turn up dead, Hope's legacy of wolf-hating is reignited. It is up to biologist Helen Ross, called in to collar and monitor the wolves, to uphold their legally-protected status. Helen soon finds herself in the middle of a war zone, but among the growing ranks of hostile ranchers and militant environmentalists,...
7) Outside in
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal ways nature affects our everyday lives, such as providing food and clothing, and showing when to go to bed and when to get up.
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"Join a boy and his dog as they explore nature and take a stroll through the countryside, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the melting brook to chirping birds, they say goodbye to winter and welcome the lushness of spring."--
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"Camille loves the ocean, the warm sand, the pretty shells, and the sparkling waves that tickle her toes. Sometimes she even imagines that she's a mermaid with whales and dolphins for friends! When the other WellieWishers see how much Camille misses her summers by the sea, they want to help, but how can four girls turn a garden into an ocean?"--Publisher.
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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
14) All the world
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Follow a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night as they discover the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
15) Out of the ocean
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A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.
16) In my world
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Describes some of the many things in the natural world--such as worms, seashells, flowers, and stars--that a child can appreciate.
18) Canoe days
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A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.