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1) Plant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents information about the complexities of the plant kingdom, covering non-flowering as well as flowering plants and revealing their structures, natural history, and importance in human life.--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Young readers will cheer at the happy outcome of this exciting tale. And they will long remember the heartening message of the tiny seed's steadfast perseverance in the face of many hazards and obstacles...
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Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This exquisitely detailed full-color field guide, by biologist and herbal and medical plant expert Jim Meuninck, provides identification, practical information, and skills for the location of and use of medicinal plants. The pages of this book re-connect us to our roots and the knowledge that medicinal plants and wild plant foods provide the chemicals everybody needs to obtain optimum health and prevent disease. Meuninck moves the user from simple...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of "Designing with Succulents" provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to just name a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and...
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Series
Gardening series. Yard volume no. 7.211
Gardening series. Basics volume no. 7.211
Service in action volume no. 7.211
Gardening series. Basics volume no. 7.211
Service in action volume no. 7.211
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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"In the early morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became unstable, causing a huge explosion. But the disaster was only just beginning. Follow along with the true story of a doomed power plant that is still dangerous today. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--
13) Bloom
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Series
Overthrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...
20) Wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
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