Betsy Bowen
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The story of a forest "lost" by a surveying error-and all the flora and fauna to be found there A forest, of course, doesn't need a map to know where to grow. But people need a map to find it. And in 1882 when surveyors set out to map a part of Minnesota, they got confused, or tired and cold (it was November), and somehow mapped a great swath of ancient trees as a lake. For more than seventy-five years, the mistake stayed on the map, and the forest...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Once covering almost 40 percent of the United States, native prairie is today one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. 'Plant a pocket of prairie' teaches children how changes in one part of the system affect every other part: when prairie plants are destroyed, the animals who eat those plants and live on or around them are harmed as well. Root shows what happens when we work to restore the prairies, encouraging readers to 'plant a pocket...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant, Butterball, The Boy and the North Wind, The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain, The Sailors and the Troll, The Eating Competition, and The Troll with No Heart in His Body.