Category: middle grade

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Palm Trees at the North Pole

Palm Trees at the North Pole: The Hot Truth About Climate Change
by Marc ter Horst (Author), Wendy Panders (Illustrator), and Laura Watkinson (Translator)
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Booktalk: With facts about farting cows and cracking icebergs, tall windmills and fast electric cars, burly polar bears and cute little pikas, this guide for readers ages 8-12 covers the history of our climate–starting with exploding volcanoes and extinct mammoths–and explains humans’ role in climate change. It also shares information about environmental movements throughout history.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet

Hello, Earth!: Poems to Our Planet
by Joyce Sidman (Author) and Miren Asiain Lora (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: We walk on Earth’s surface every day, but how often do we wonder about the incredible planet around us? From the molten cracks below to the shimmering moon above, explore the wonders of the natural world.

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HELLO, EARTH!

It’s your children.
Some of your children —
the human ones.
We have been studying you, Earth,
but we long to learn more.

We want to ask you
a few questions.

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