Molly Bang
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"It's time to learn about the role of carbon and fossil fuels on planet Earth! As much as our news is packed with articles about the importance of fossil fuels to the world economy and the global warming caused by increased carbon emissions, few people understand what is happening. Now Bang and Chisholm present a clear, concise explanation of the fossil-fuel energy cycle that began with the sun and now runs most of the manufacturing, transportation,...
6) Goose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Adopted by woodchucks at birth, a baby goose never feels she truly belongs, until the day she discovers she can fly.
9) Tiger's Fall
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A feisty little girl learns that physical disability can't limit her ability to make a difference.
Lupe loves nothing better than riding her father's horse, El Diablo. Fearless and agile, she rampages around her rural village in Mexico like a tigrilla (little tiger), which is her father's nickname for her. But one day Lupe falls while climbing a tree. Paralyzed from the waist down, she will never again be able to ride El Diablo. Her life might as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three-time Caldecott Honor Artist Molly Bang and National Science Award-winning professor Penny Chisholm present a stunning, accessible explanation of the Earth's water cycle and its global effects.
With stunning artwork and compelling scientific explanation, Bang and Chisholm have brought forth a masterpiece that is critically relevant in this environmentally tumultuous time. How does the sun keep ocean currents moving and lift fresh water from...
12) The paper crane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Explains how all life on the Earth depends, directly or indirectly, on light from the sun, and describes how all ocean life, from the tiniest plankton to great whales, including the creatures in the darkest depths, form a web that uses sunshine.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, enabling life to exist on our planet. But human beings are interfering in this natural cycle, unbalancing the amount of fresh water available."--
15) Ten, Nine, Eight
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Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Living Sunlight shows children, teachers, and parents the remarkable magic of what makes us human.This informative yet dramatic book will mesmerize readers and help further a child's understanding of the energy we share with all living things in nature. We are all dancing sunlight.
19) My light
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The sun explains how his energy fuels life on earth.
20) In my heart
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Pub. Date
2005
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Description
Parents describe how their child is always in their hearts, no matter where they are or what they are doing.