Celebrates the creatures of the earth, from spiders dangling in their webs to owls hooting and hunting out of sight, and asks that we respect and care for them.

6) Panda kindergarten

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

[2009]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild.

7) Big bear ball

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

[2002]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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The moon is full and all the bears are gathered together for a ball under the stars.

8) Bear of my heart

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

2006

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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A mama bear tells her baby how she will always love him.

9) Bear Of My Heart

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

2009

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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NN ILLUS. $8.99. ILLUS: MARGIE MOORE. BOARD BOOK. DN

10) Where butterflies grow

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Accelerated Reader

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

Description

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Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Includes gardening tips to attract butterflies.

11) Night gliders

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

[1995]

Description

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Four furry squirrels leap and glide through the night sky, feeding and playing until the approach of daybreak.

12) Chipmunk song

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

[1987]

Accelerated Reader

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

Description

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A lyrical description of a chipmunk as it goes about its activities in late summer, prepares for winter, and settles in till spring.

13) A dragon's guide to the care and feeding of humans

Author

Yep, Laurence

Series

Dragon's guide volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5

Formats

Book, CD, eBook

Description

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Fans of How to Train Your Dragon will love this whimsical tale, the first in a series, by a Newbery Honor winner, featuring charming illustrations and pet training tips in each chapter. Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems to think Miss Drake is her pet a ridiculous notion! Unknown to most of its inhabitants, the City by the Bay is home to many mysterious and fantastic creatures, hidden beneath...

14) A house by the sea

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

[1994]

Description

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Describes what it would be like to live in a little house by the sea and frolic with seals and crabs and other sea creatures.

15) Winter White

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Because they never give up hope and always want to change the present into something better, Fox and Lemming annually trick Winter into trading snow for sun.

16) When the woods hum

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

c1991

Description

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Jenny experiences the wonder of seeing and hearing the woods fill up with humming cicadas, and seventeen years later she returns with her young son to share that experience.

17) Step into the night

Author

Ryder, Joanne

Pub. Date

c1988

Description

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A child stands outside her lamplit home and imagines the lives of many night creatures as they move silently in the unseen, half-sensed world of the darkness.