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Series
This poison heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, including poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control...
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Language
English
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A practical, authoritative reference guide to more than 50 medicinal plants that offer natural, safe ways to optimize your brain health.
Expert authors and mother-daughter team Elaine and Nicolette Perry have mastered an ever-growing body of scientific research (some of which they themselves pioneered) on how medicinal plants can help you sleep soundly, reduce stress, improve your memory, and simply feel better-in body and mind.
Organized to easily...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of animals and plants living in the Amazon rainforest, in this adaptation of the song "The green grass grew all around." Includes "For Creative Minds" section with animal and plant adaptation facts and a recipe.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world to stop, listen, and look, exploring each tree's connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants, and demonstrating how the lives of trees and people are deeply interwoven. Several trees, including a balsam fir in Ontario and an Amazonian ceibo, are located in areas that seem mostly natural, but which are affected by industrial...
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Language
English
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"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then,...
87) A seed grows
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"An educational picture book about the life cycle of a sunflower"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Today Darwin would be surprised by the tourist mecca Galapagos has become; 200,000 visitors a year, 40,000 permanent residents. The impact on the most unique collection of endemic wildlife in the world has been heavy; too many people bringing too many of their ways (and invasive species) from the outside world threatening the future of this one-of-a-kind place. What would Darwin think of how Galapagos has evolved in the twenty-first century?
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Language
English
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Adored for their charming shapes and colors, respected for their resilience and adaptability, and just plain fun to have around-succulents are the hottest home gardening trend today. A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening is a friendly guide to popular succulents, walking novices through all the basics, like:
Choosing your succulents-from Hens and Chicks (Echeveria) to bristly flowering cactus varieties
Mixing the right soils for your succulents...
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Language
English
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The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel!
“A Beginner's Guide to House Plants” teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants-and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment.
In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including:
• How to...
92) Butler for hire!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
DJ Funkyfoot may have a name fit for a hip-hop star, but as a dog butler desperate to find a job, he takes a job as a nanny watching over a ShrubBaby that loves chaos.
93) Poop fountain!
Author
Series
Qwikpick papers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three friends spend Christmas day breaking into the town of Crickenburg's antiquated sewage treatment plant in order to witness with their own eyes the soon-to-be-replaced "poop fountain."
Author
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
142 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
Cómo no matar tus plantas resuelve todas tus dudas y problemas de jardinería. ¿Por qué el tallo está de color marrón?, ¿por qué se están marchitando las hojas a pesar de que la mantienes en el lugar correcto y la riegas? Esta guía te explica mediante sencillos trucos todo sobre las plantas de interior: cuánta luz, agua, calor o humedad es necesitan, cómo rescatar a una planta, qué bichos podrían ser perjudiciales...
Do you have a "black...
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Language
English
Description
A flower is the reproductive structure of plants that produce seeds. It is usually composed of four main parts: sepals, petals, stamens and carpels. The sepals are the modified leaves that protect the flower before it blooms, while the petals are the modified leaves that usually give the flower its color and attractiveness. The stamens are the male structures that produce pollen, and the carpels are the female structures that contain the ovules. When...
100) Medicinal Plants
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Series
Language
English
Description
An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of knowledge.
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