The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

3) Sandor Katz and the tiny wild

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Series

Live Oak Media eReadalong

Pub. Date

2022.

Description

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"Welcome to Sandor Katz's no-desk, new-ways school! There are no tests, no rules--just happy, hungry people learning how to make fermented food. All they need are their favorite vegetables, salt, and the TINY WILD. These invisible microbes change cucumbers into crunchy pickles, and cabbages into zingy-zangy sauerkraut and kimchi." --

4) Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Series

Food Hero

Pub. Date

[2017]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Describes the popular street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant

5) The lamp, the ice, and the boat called Fish: based on a true story

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.

6) Alice Waters and the trip to delicious

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Pub. Date

c2014

Description

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"The search for good food led Alice Waters to France, and then back to Berkeley, California, where she started Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard. For Alice, a delicious meal does not start in the kitchen but in the fields with good soil and caring farmers"--Back cover.

7) The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Pub. Date

2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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An orphan girl discovers that she shares her grandfather's gift for finding things when their very clever pig disappears.

8) The chiru of high Tibet: a true story

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Pub. Date

2010.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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The true story of how scientist George Schaller and four mountain men set out to save the chiru (antelope-like creatures that cannot survive captivity and live on the high plains of Tibet) from near extinction.

9) Good times on Grandfather Mountain

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Pub. Date

c1992

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

10) The finest horse in town

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Pub. Date

[1992]

Description

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Long ago, two sisters in Maine owned a remarkable gray horse named Prince, who became a legend in their family.

11) Banjo granny

Author

Busse, Sarah Martin

Pub. Date

[2006]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Baby Owen's grandmother learns that he is wiggly, jiggly, and all-around giggly for bluegrass music, so with her banjo, she travels by curious means to visit and play for him.