Juvenile Fiction, Nature & The Natural World
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Wendy and the Wind
by Marion Stephenson
Everyone loves Wendy and Wendy loves everyone…except for the wind! Wendy thinks that the wind is cold, and mean, and doesn’t know how to play. The sandbox loves her. The bath loves her. Even the baby freeze loves her! Wendy just can’t understand ...
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Zochy's Adventures with Zinc Oxide
by Mohit K. Sharma
Zochy loves to explore and learn new things, and today she’s learning all about zinc oxide! Join her as she finds out how interesting and cool chemistry can be. Zinc oxide is everywhere, from the breakfast table to the farm, and Zochy can’t wait to ...
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The Missing Toe
The Story of an Adventurous Caterpillar and His Friends by Ellen Dalzell
Tik, Tak, and Toe are excited to turn into monarch butterflies! But these little caterpillars have a long way to go before that happens. The milkweed leaves they eat are filled with other insects that want to eat them, so they’re grateful when a ...
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Hailey Loves Dandelions
by C. Ingrid Deringer
Hailey picks dandelions wherever she goes. As she grows older, her mother and nana teach her how to make yummy food with the flowers and leaves, her grandpa teaches her to make medicinal tea with the roots, and at summer camp, she even uses ...
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How the Wind Found a Home
by Drew Perry
Before people or animals lived in the world, winds blew all the time. When people and animals came along and had their own homes to rest in, the sister wind, Breeze, and her brother wind, Zephyr, become jealous. They want a home too, and decide to ...
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Cally Hart and the Fairy Sparks
by DeAnna Kweens
Cally Hart is often lonely until one day when a mesmerizing purple spark dances through her room and music starts playing on its own. Her curiosity leads her to follow the spark, and along the way she is joined by her best friend, Jackson, and her ...
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It's Spring! It's Spring!
by Brie Smalldon
Guess what?! It’s that time of year again in beautiful eastern North America when everything is zen. It’s spring! It’s spring! The snow is melting, the rain is pelting, the birds are chirping and the bees are working. Days of longer hours awakening ...
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South Bentinck Summer
by Alvin Gauthier
If you fly an hour or so from Vancouver to Bella Coola, South Bentinck Arm isn’t that much farther away. But this inlet on British Columbia’s Central Coast is an otherworldly place where encounters with bowhead whales, pesky porcupines and devil’s ...
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Dolly's Rescue
by Luanne J. Langdon
After a long winter in the Arctic Ocean, a small pod of white-beaked dolphins is headed south to warmer waters and their summer feeding ground. Following a school of herring, Dolly, the smallest dolphin, leads her pod along the coastline and into a ...
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The Resilient World
by Nikita Paddock
Earth has always cared for the beings living on her, giving them everything she has. But now she is being abused and feels she has lost her purpose. With people constantly arguing, wars being waged, and pollution threatening to destroy every living ...