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Author
Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
While on their bicycles, sisters Chirri and Chirra notice that the meadow in front of their house has grown, and cycle into the long grass to discover such activity as bees making honey and flower chafers making mixed-leaf juice.
Author
Language
English
Description
1862. As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and fight for the truth...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm....
6) Antarctica
Author
Language
English
Description
This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ashley has a baby brother Sam who is cute because he is just beginning to talk, but is also cranky because his teeth are erupting; Ashlee has a twelve-year-old sister who can be fun, but also often ignores her younger sister--so the eight-year-old friends cannot decide which of them has a worse sibling situation.
8) Who am I?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After hatching out of his egg, a chameleon plods through the tall grass, meeting various jungle animals and asking an important question.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short-story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans. Now the award-winning writer joins forces with renowned illustrator Paul Cox to re-imagine twenty of his most popular and fêted short stories alongside beautifully rendered watercolor illustrations in The Short, The Long and the Tall. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mowgli loves life in the Jungle. He gets to swing from trees, run through tall grass, and swim in rivers. He has many friends, like his playful brother wolf cubs, the spirited flying squirrels, and the honest rhinos. Best of all, he has Bagheera, the wise panther, and Baloo, the fun-loving bear. One day a great storm comes to the Jungle. Fortunately, Bagheera and Baloo know just what Mowgli should do. The only problem is they have two very different...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Robby and his sister Karla beg their parents to take them to a big carnival that has opened on the other side of town. When they arrive, the two kids are delighted by the rides, the sideshow, the interesting displays, and the great food booths. They wander away from their parents and find themselves at a less-trafficked area at the back of the carnival. Inside a large penned-in area, they see a dejected-looking boy about their age sitting on the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confrontation-was under way.
For seventy-seven days, the Marines and a contingent of US Army Special Forces endured artillery barrages, sniper fire, ground...
15) The barn
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, many hands raised a red-cedar barn. Now the barn stands tall, smelling of freshly cut hay and dusty horses. As the animals wake and wander through its weathered doors, the barn watches the day unfold. Chickens peck, cows shoo flies with swishing tails, swallows fly in and out, and a cat crouches in the grass to hunt for dinner. When peepers start their evening song and the animals settle in their bedding again--the horses in...
16) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"My Antonia(1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows". --- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge--and hugely conflicted--role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war, and no city raised more hell against it. It was a city of patriots, war heroes, and abolitionists, but simultaneously a city of antiwar protest,...
18) Mowing
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nora helps her grandfather mow the field by watching for little animals in the tall grass and warning him to circle the horses and mowing machine around them.
Author
Publisher
Parragon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On a warm spring day, in the tall green grass, a little gray rabbit was sniffing the air. It was Easter Sunday. It was ... egg-hunt time! But can Rabbit find the most special Easter egg of all?" --
20) Grasslands
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A kindergarten-level introduction to grasslands, covering their climate, plant and animal life, and such defining features as their varied grasses"--