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Stuck
by Oliver Jeffers
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When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
The sun, the rain, and the apple seed
by Lynda Durrant
Ages 9 - 12
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In the 1790s, an eccentric young man nicknamed Johnny Appleseed feels called by God to travel through the American West planting apple seeds that will feed the hungry and produce more seeds for planting and trading.
Seeds of change
by Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynn Sadler
Ages 4 - 8
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A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees.
Poetrees
by Douglas Florian
Ages 5 - 10
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A" tree"-mendous poetry collection from Douglas Florian exploring the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy.
The inside tree
by Linda Smith
Ages 4 - 8
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Things get a little out of control when Mr. Potter decides to bring his dog, and then a tree, into the house to live.
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya
by Donna Jo Napoli; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Ages 4 - 8
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The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The brilliant fall of Gianna Z.
by Kate Messner
Ages 9 - 12
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Gianna Z has less than one week to collect, identify, and creatively display 25 leaves for her science projector else she won't be able to compete in the upcoming cross-country race. As the deadline for her project draws near, life keeps getting in the way.
Annie Glover is not a tree lover
by Darleen Bailey Beard
Ages 8 - 10
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When her grandmother chains herself to the tree across from the school to save it from being cut down, fourth-grader Annie wants to die of humiliation, but when she dicovers the town's history, her attitude changes.
The great kapok tree
by Lynne Cherry
Ages 4 - 8
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In the rain forest, as a man chops away at a great kapok tree, the heat and efforts of his work exhaust him so that he falls asleep. One by one, the creatures who live in the tree emerge and plead with him not to destroy their world.
The birthday tree
by Paul Fleischman
Ages 4 - 8
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A sailor moves his family far inland to keep his son from becoming a sailor. An apple tree is planted when the son is born. As the boy and the tree grow up together, the tree seems to reflect the boy’s feelings.
