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One Day in the Prairie
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Jean Craighead George,Bob Marstall |
The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path. |
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The divide
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Michael Bédard |
Unhappy when her family firstmoves out to the plains of Nebraska, the young Willa Cather comes to appreciate the beauty of her new home. |
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Bluestem
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Frances Arrington |
With their father away and their mother traumatized by some unknown event, eleven-year-old Polly and her younger sister are left to take care of themselves and their prairie homestead. |
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Butterfly count
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Sneed B. Collard |
Amy and her mother look for a very special butterfly while attending the annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count at a prairie restoration site. Includes factual information about butterflies and how to… |
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Kindred souls
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Patricia MacLachlan |
Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it. |
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The prairie thief
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Melissa Wiley |
In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Louisa's father is erroneously arrested for thievery and, while under the charge of the awful Smirch family, Louisa and a magical friend must find a way to prove … |
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Planet Earth
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Mark Brownlow,Alastair Fothergill,Jonny Keeling |
With a production budget of $25 million, the makers of Blue Planet: Seas of Life crafted this epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, with over 2, 000 days in the field, using 40 camer… |
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Prairie days
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Patricia MacLachlan,Micha Archer |
Describes summer days growing up on the prairie. |
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Prairie visions
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Pam Conrad |
A collection of photos and stories about photographer Solomon Butcher and turn-of-the-century Nebraska. |
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A Prairie Boy's Winter
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William Kurelek |
Canadian artist Kurelek's own childhood--on prairie farms during the 30s--vividly illuminates this vision of a boy's winter life on a prairie farm. Both realistic and lyrical, it captures its subject… |
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A Prairie Year
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Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet |
The year begins with hockey, icefishing, and a snowmobile race. Spring brings renewal: the arrival of piglets, baby chicks in the farm kitchen; and outside, the fields are seeded. In summer, there’s … |
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The Tallgrass Prairie
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Cindy Crosby |
xiii, 128 pages : 21 cm |
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Grasslands
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Violet Findley |
"What animal is jumping through the green grass? it's a rabbit! To learn who else lives in this habitat, read this book."-- |
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Disappearing prairies
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Jane Kelley |
For thousands of years, people have been changing the world's prairies. Now many prairies are in trouble. They are among the most threatened ecosystems on our planet. Will prairies survive? |
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Skylark
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Patricia MacLachlan |
*My mother, Sarah,
doesn't love the prairie.
She tries, but she can't help
remembering what she knew first.*
Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turne… |
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The Wind Wagon
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Celia Barker Lottridge |
Sam Peppard, a blacksmith in 1860s Kansas, builds a prairie schooner that sails to Denver, Colorado, powered by wind. |
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Nowhere, now here
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Ann Howard Creel |
When her family moves from Florida to the Colorado prairie to raise alpacas, twelve-year-old Laney must leave behind the ocean she loves and accept the new landscape and life ahead of her. |
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The prairie
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Charles Rotter |
An introductory book on grasslands, with emphasis on the North American prairie, and including information on vegetation, animal life, human impact, and need for preservation. |
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The New Land
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Marilynn Reynolds |
Tells the story of the first year of a pioneer family, from their journey by boat, train, and wagon to their own plot of land, through the task of finding water, building the homestead, ploughing the… |
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A prairie food chain
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A. D. Tarbox |
"A look at a common food chain on a North American prairie, introducing the bluestem grass that starts the chain, the badger that sits atop the chain, and various animals in between"-- |
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