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1) Wishtree
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
"Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"--People write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say that Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Abigail defends her pet choice, explaining that Fido the dogwood tree keeps her cool during the day, listens when she tells him to stay, and even gives her air to breathe.
3) Mighty tree
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three seeds grow into three beautiful trees, each of which serves a different function in nature and for people.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After sixth grader Minty discovers a secret tree with a hollow trunk that holds the secrets of everyone in the neighborhood, Raymond, a new boy drawn to the tree and Minty start watching their neighbors.
8) My tree
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, as young Katie and her father help plant and tend trees in their booming frontier town, she doubts that the spindly saplings will ever grow big. Includes facts about Arbor Day.
10) Nothing
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life.
11) The tree doctor
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Reading level: Preschool-Grade 1
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change, and nature's quiet triumph.
14) Big tree
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
15) Stuck
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
16) The Easter cub
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pip the curious cub notices that signs of spring are appearing around him, finds out more about the season from Evergreen the tree, and joins the children in the cabin as they celebrate Easter.
17) The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
Author
Series
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Are trees social beings? Forester and author Peter Wohlleben makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love...
19) Little tree
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Tree is very happy in the forest, where he is surrounded by other little trees and his leaves keep him cool in the heat of summer, but when autumn comes and the other trees drop their leaves, Little Tree cannot be pursuaded to let his go, even after they wither and turn brown.