The Boy Who Grew a Forest
The Boy Who Grew a Forest

Author: Sophia Gholz

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1534138420

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2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Notable Social Studies Trade Books list – Winning Title! 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award - Winning Title Florida Book Award Gold Winner Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors Award Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.

Burning Scars
Burning Scars

Author: Vincent J. Interlande

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1532008120

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As a killer battles haunting fl ashbacks that transform reasoning into weakness, revenge devours his soul like cancer, rotting his life and his perception of the world around him. While his growing vengeance targets one man, he creates a game of chess to trap and kill his victim. As he spirals out of control, the killer allows revenge to be his master, creating a labyrinth of death that imprisons his mind. It is 1989twenty years after Vic Morenos second tour in Vietnam as a special ops agent known for getting the job done and bringing his men back alive. Now a respected FBI special agent, Morenos new assignment leads him back to his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts, where three brutal murders have recently taken place. After the killer demands that Moreno lead the investigation or more will die, Moreno realizes that clues have been purposely left for him. As the chess game begins, Moreno changes the rules in an attempt to save a delusional murderer from himself, even as his own instincts to kill begin to overtake his life. In this gripping tale of survival, an FBI agent hot on the trail of a determined killer must battle internal demons while trying to stop another tortured soul from taking more innocent victims down with him.

The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0060530944

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It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

Garden of Dreams
Garden of Dreams

Author: Melissa Siebert

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 014353131X

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When Eli de Villiers, a boy from a fractured family in Cape Town, goes to India with his mother, an astonishing adventure awaits him. He is kidnapped and lands in a brothel in Delhi, at the mercy of the diabolical madam and child trafficker, Auntie Lakshmi. Eli escapes with other children, fleeing through India's fantastical landscapes towards Nepal – Eli to find his father, the others to return home. In hot pursuit are Lakshmi's henchmen, as well as her nemesis, the irrepressible Inspector V.J. Gupta. A band of Maoist rebels, enlisted by Eli's father to help find his son, follows their trail. In this evocative coming-of-age saga, a boy's quest to reunite his family collides with the bittersweet realisation that he cannot remain in the garden of dreams forever, and that a broader, bolder life is impossible without accepting the world as an imperfect place.

Can You Hear The Trees Talking?
Can You Hear The Trees Talking?

Author: Peter Wohlleben

Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1771644354

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WINNER OF THE AAAS/SUBARU PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS BASED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES This interactive and illustrated book for kids aged 8-10 introduces the wonderful science of the forest through outdoor activities, quizzes, fun facts, photographs, and more! Discover the secret life of trees with this nature and science book for kids: Can You Hear the Trees Talking? shares the mysteries and magic of the forest with young readers, revealing what trees feel, how they communicate, and the ways trees take care of their families. The author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, tells kids about the forest internet, aphids who keep ants as pets, nature’s water filters, and more fascinating things that happen under the canopy. Featuring simple activities kids can try on their own, along with quizzes, photographs, and more, Can You Hear the Trees Talking? covers a range of amazing topics including: How trees talk to each other (hint: through the wood wide web!) Why trees are important in the city How trees make us healthy and strong How trees get sick, and how we can help them get better This engaging and visually stunning book encourages learning and fun as kids discover the wonder of the natural world outside their windows. "Lush full-color photos and pictures create an immersive experience and the layout facilitates engaged, delighted learning. ...this book may prompt frequent family visits to, and a new appreciation for, neighborhood trees and local forests.” —Washington Parent

Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom

Author: Yaa Gyasi

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 052565819X

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.