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Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night -- an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland -- a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audit -- assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.
3) Blue sky
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Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Throughout the day and into the night, a boy and his family observe the constantly changing sky.
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage...
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DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
©2021.
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English
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"On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie grasses known as the Forever Sea, Kindred Greyreach, hearthfire keeper and sailor aboard harvesting vessel The Errant, is just beginning to fit in with the crew of her new ship when she receives devastating news. Her grandmother - The Marchess, legendary captain and hearthfire keeper - has stepped from her vessel and disappeared into the sea. But the note she leaves Kindred suggests this was not...
10) Sweet dreams
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Rhyming text depicts a mother preparing her child for bed by telling her about the different animals that live nearby and their nighttime activities.
11) In the meadow
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Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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A little girl hears the sounds of nature all around her when she follows a butterfly into a meadow.
13) Eden
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English
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"Earth's rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity's last hope to save the planet lies with The Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature. Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventure racers, including his daughter Jenn, into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Jenn carries a secret--Kat, Dylan's wife...
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Critter club volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Liz is excited that her three best friends are visiting her family's cabin at Marigold Lake, but something seems to go wrong with every activity she planned.
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Series
Jim Henson's Enchanted sisters volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Mother Nature's realm, sisters Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer are nature's royalty, responsible for each magical turn of the seasons, but Autumn has lost a special gift from Mother Nature and her siststers must help her find it.
18) My nana's garden
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Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A little girl visits her grandmother in different seasons, and together they explore the wonders of her garden. Until, one day, Nana isn't there anymore. But as winter gives way to spring, the girl learns that life goes on, and so does the memory of those we love. --
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Jim Henson's Enchanted sisters volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Although Spring is nervous about her first sleepover, Winter's Snowflake Slumber Party is great fun until a storm frightens Spring into leaving early, but she musters her courage to lead her sisters into the Barrens when the Weeds steal Mother Nature's scepter.
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Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants.
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