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1) Fairy houses
Author
Publisher
Light-Beams
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
3rd ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p.
Language
English
3) Walden
Author
Series
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau volume Princeton Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry D. Thoreau (1817–62) was an American author, naturalist, poet, and philosopher. He wrote many essays and books, including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and The Maine Woods, among others. John Updike (1932–2009) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet.
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a tour of Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia through the eyes of a slave boy, a cook, a visitor, Jefferson himself, and his grand-daughter.
8) John Brown, Pennsylvania citizen: the story of John Brown's ten years in northwestern Pennsylvania
Author
Physical Desc
27 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
v, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life. As the magpie, George,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the jealousy of friends like Ernest Hemingway. But his radical...
12) Beatrix Potter's gardening life: the plants and places that inspired the classic children's tales
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season...
13) Mount Vernon
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Corp
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, original uses, and preservation of Mount Vernon, the plantation home of George Washington.
14) Two lives
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. A rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.