Cris Peterson
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes a day in the life of Clarabelle, a Wisconsin dairy cow. Text and photographs depict modern technologies that allow farmers to generate more than just dairy products from their herds. Other commodities include electricity, fertilizer, and animal bedding.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Kids love food--and they especially love to eat popcorn! Author Cris Peterson offers an illuminating step-by-step examination of the history and science behind America's favorite snack. With photographs illustrating every stage, readers get a behind-the-scenes view of how popcorn is planted, grown, harvested, processed, tested, and finally shipped to stores and movie theaters all over the world. Back matter delves into the history of popcorn and how...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...