nature stories

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Lanie

Interconnecting stories featuring ten-year-old Lanie Holland, who discovers the wonders of nature in her own backyard when she helps her aunt plant a garden of wildflowers to attract birds and Monarch butterflies, but runs into trouble with the neighbor next door.

Out of the ocean

A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.

Paul Bunyan's sweetheart

When legendary logger Paul Bunyan falls in love with Lucette Diana Kensack, he will do whatever it takes to win her heart, including trying to restore the Minnesota environment to its previous condition as part of Lucette's "love test.".

The hike

2019
"Three friends set out on a day hike to explore their local forest, intending to climb to the top of the hill, where they will plant a flag, read a poem, and release feathers into the wind"--OCLC.
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The nature girls

" . . .[a] troupe of girls exploring different biomes--the ocean, the desert, the tundra, the grasslands, the forest--and meeting all the cute animals that inhabit them"--OCLC.
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Step this way

Nick and Sally accompany the Cat in the Hat to Bing-Bungle-Ba-Boo, where they learn all about different kinds of feet and their uses.
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Swamp thing

Alec Holland rises from death into a mass of vegetation called the Swamp Thing to wreck havoc upon nature at the cost of billions of lives, and the only one who has the power to stop him is his daughter, Tefe.
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Snowboy and the last tree standing

Greedy Greenbackboy's got an idea for a game. He wants Snowboy to help him cut down all the trees in the forest and catch all the fish in the deep and ever-moving ocean. But Snowboy recognizes the importance of life in the natural world around him and, in this evocatively told tale, has to trust his instinct to protect, rather than destroy...Publisher website.
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Amira's totally chocolate world

Amira, having prayed to Allah for a completely chocolate world, dreams her prayer has been answered, but realizes before she wakes that the world is perfect just the way it was created.
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Slow magic

Polly's grandparents teach her about the magic of nature by showing her how a seed can be transformed into something warm to wear.

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