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41) Red Reflection
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How can modest living, art and respect for nature address global threats like habitat loss and climate change?
In the last woodland on the city fringe, Ellin is dying. She remembers the Red, when trees stretched across the land - a time before the wildfire, before the Blue and its uncertain inheritance. Ellin weaves these reflections into a letter for her newborn daughter. Could she be the one to lead a transformation?
Red Reflection is a contemporary...
42) Desert Baths
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Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, the
roadrunner kicks up a cloud of dust, the javelina
wallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with a
rough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun and moon
travel across the sky, learn how twelve different desert
animals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dry
and parched land. Explore the desert habitat through
its animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyrical
prose, this story is a celebration...
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The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.
The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when Nabila, obsessed with how the climate crisis will cause oceans to rise, created an elaborate imaginary world where...
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Lord B is a parrot who lives happily, deep within the green South American jungle. But one day, a herd of lumberjacks intrudes. They shatter the peace and begin to chop down the trees. Lord B fears for his home. They are on the verge of destroying the forest, and that just won't do! Lord B decides to fly out into the world and investigate who and what is behind the destruction of the jungle.
Lord B's mission has begun.
Before his journey, he receives...
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: "Uniformly excellent" stories about our relationships with each other and with the treacherous natural world (Publishers Weekly).
In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. "The Distance" casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man's visit to Monticello. "Eating" begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and...
In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. "The Distance" casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man's visit to Monticello. "Eating" begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and...
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"Pinkalicious is absolutely positive that a flower fairy will visit her garden. After all, flower fairies love pink, and so does Pinkalicious! When Pinkalicious transforms her garden into a pink wonderland, will it entice the flower fairy to visit?"--Publisher's description.
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The Happy Tree is a mischievous, lovable little creature who is an outcast from his forest home because he accidentally started a fire with a "magic glass on a stick" (magnifying glass). In the process of trying to save the youngest Joy Baby, Angie, the Happy Tree uses the leaves on his top knot to smother the fire. But something terrible happens! His leaves change from green to purple! When this happens, he becomes a social outcast with the tree...
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Killbear Park, the Wild Side is the story of a small area that is part of one of the largest wilderness regions in the world where the land is natural, water is clean and visitors can receive a tonic of rest and healing from the spirit of the wild. From the rugged, rocky shoreline mixed with numerous sand beaches, the views of windswept pines on rocky islands, canoeing and Georgian Bay sunsets, Jake Hayes has time to look at his life, his ever increasing...
50) Bear Gets Stuck
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This is a true story. It is about a family of bears that had a scary adventure. Could someone rescue them from trouble?"
51) The Forests
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Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in the village, only preoccupied with gossip, nor especially his mother, who dreams of getting rid of him. Dragged from home to home, his childhood feels like a sad, aimless pilgrimage. Until the day his mother abandons him with an old woman, Augustine. That's when life begins again for him, deep into the Valley of the Forests, the remote region, where the woman who becomes...
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In this title, early fluent readers follow Hannah, a ruby-throated hummingbird, as she embarks on her daily pollination journey in a city park. Read along as Beth flies around searching for flowers, drinks nectar, and begins her migration south for the winter. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience.
Children can learn more about hummingbirds using Fact...
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"In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the Scientists...
55) Saving Orb
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Follow Eve and her cousins as they discover what appears to be an alarming threat to our beautiful world. As you read through the intriguing pages you will wonder why everything lost its colour. This question can only be answered in Saving Orb. You will also learn about the damage humans have caused to mother earth, and about climate change. As you turn the pages you will also meet wonderful characters along the way, and visit an exquisite place...
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Finaliste, Prix Littéraires Du Gouverneur Général 2020
Sur La Liste Des 100 Meilleurs Livres Du Globe And Mail
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Face Au Colonialisme, Les Autochtones Doivent Continuellement Se Fabriquer Un « Chez Soi » Et Y Retrouver Un Sentiment D'appartenance. Pour Certains D'entre Nous, Ce Ne Sont Que Des Aperçus, Des Moments Furtifs. Parfois, Il N'y En A Que Des Fragments.
Noopiming Signifie « En Forêt » En Anishinaabemowin. Une Constellation...
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The Get Away Boat is a 500 word children's picture book. Its thirty beautiful illustrations entice your child first to listen and then to read the story. The beaver dam broke, a flood is on the way, and three little lizards and an old grandpa need to find something that will float. The book's editor, a Florida State first-grade teacher, guided the book toward use in her classroom. To her students delight, she used it in her science unit to help teach...
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See-oh-too is an influential guy. Trees Are Made of Gas teaches young readers all about carbon dioxide, an invisible, odorless gas that is essential for plant growth, but is also responsible for global climate change. Kids learn both the science and impact of the massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, making a clear argument for conservation and clean up. Providing simple explanations along with ways to reduce your own carbon footprint,...