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Dragons love tacos volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa!
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What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us--whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed--he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
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This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument newly accessible. He reveals the bad nutritional science...
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Pub. Date
2010
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Explains the psychology of "carnism," a mentality that reflects the human willingness to consume certain animals and not others, and discusses incidents of inhumane husbandry throughout the world, the health risks associated with consuming meat products, and related topics.
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Just Grace volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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As Grace and her classmates study foods from other cultures, she has the opportunity to ponder such mysteries as whether Owen 1 is really bad or not, why she feels jealous when her father helps her best friend with her hot dog report, and how Augustine Dupre, her family's French boarder, can be so wise.
12) Everyone eats
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Have you ever eaten a bug? How about a caterpillar or a tarantula? Believe it or not, kids in other parts of the world eat these tasty treats every day. Learn all about different countries and the sometimes unusual and creepy things people eat. Get out your spoon and fork and get ready to learn about what everyone eats! This title will allow students to identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
14) Foodies
Pub. Date
2016
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Foodies is a documentary that takes the viewer into the world of the "foodies." Foodies are people obsessed with haute cuisine, and who have risen up over the last 10 years writing on blogs and websites. This film takes a look at five such zfoodiesy from around the world: Andy Hayler, Katie Keiko Tam, Aiste Miseviciute, Perm Paitayawat, and Steven Plotnicki.
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Stick Dog volume 11
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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"When Stick Dog and his crew unknowingly discover chopsticks, their taste buds lead them to a lakeside sushi restaurant. They see the sushi. They smell the sushi. But how are they going to get the sushi? ... It's another wacky food-snatching mission. If Stick Dog fails, Mutt, Karen, Stripes, and Poo-Poo will go to bed with empty stomachs. If he succeeds, it's sushi for everyone"--
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Animal antics A to Z volume 26
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Zachary Zebra has had a blitz of bad luck, but after concerned classmates at Alpha Betty's school ask if he is getting enough sleep and a good breakfast, he makes a change that brings back his zippety zoom.