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Series
Wayward children volume 6
Language
English
Description
"A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series. "Welcome to the Hooflands. We're happy to have you, even if you being here means something's coming." Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What is the difference between a savanna and a prairie? How do grazers avoid hungry grassland predators? Trek across the landscape of this book and find out what makes grasslands one of Earth's treasures.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 7
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company." There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. The two percent refers to: the amount of new carbon in the soil needed to reap a wide variety of ecological and economic benefits; the percentage of the nation s population who are farmers and ranchers; and the low financial cost (in terms of GDP) needed...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Sixth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool"--