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1) Prairie days
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English
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Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for kids ages 8 - 12
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for kids ages 8 - 12
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Describes the climate, soil, seasons, plants, and animals of the North American prairie and the ways in which the plants and animals depend on each other and their environment to survive.
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Pioneer promises volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"When city girl Sophie Davenport comes to the Kansas prairie to care for her ailing aunt, she finds herself shouldered with more responsibilities than she'd bargained for--and yet, the change of scenery, despite its challenges, beckons her to stay"--
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[2002]
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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Amy and her mother look for a special butterfly while attending the annual Butterfly Count at a prairie restoration site.
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"If you think grasslands are just boring old grass, think again! This high-interest volume is packed with facts about these rich habitats that cover one-fourth of our planet. For example, readers will learn that grasslands actually need wildfires to stay healthy. In fact, some places use skilled firefighters to start fires in grasslands on purpose! Amazing photos take readers up close with the curious creatures that call grasslands home, from antelope...
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2023.
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English
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"A little girl dreams of adventures in the water and feels the spirit of the ocean all around her . . . even though she lives on the prairie, with flat land as far as the eye can see. But she won't let a little detail like that stand in the way of being a meadow mermaid! Frolicking in the "waves" of wheat and "oceans" of grass, spying sea horses and . . . a shipwrecked sailor? Even if that shipwreck is actually an overturned bike and the sailor a...
9) Prairies
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to prairies. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Pioneer promises volume 3
Pub. Date
©2014.
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English
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"Janie Dunn flees Boston and moves far away to raise the son of her deceased cousin where he'll be protected from his violent father, and finds that prairie life is far more difficult--and far more wonderful--than she could have imagined"--
12) Prairie school
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[2001]
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English
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In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
13) Skylark
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
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[2002]
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English
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A mysterious stranger appears at the Kansas farm of Jacob and Sarah Witting. The stranger is Jacob's father, John, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. Although John establishes relationships with Sarah and his grandchildren, he struggles to reconcile with his son. Third part of a trilogy.
16) Elsie's bird
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[2010]
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English
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Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
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English
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This book explains how you can profitably raise grain and livestock while regenerating your Prairie Soil back to Natural Health and Productivity.
Chapter 1: Prairie History
Locations, Origins, Settlement.
Chapter 2: Prairie Ecology
Rules of Nature, Developing a Farm Plan.
Chapter 3: Plants for a Prairie Farm
Rotate Mixtures of Companion Grains and Forages.
Chapter 4: Animals for a Prairie Farm
Grassland Use for Soil Renewal and Climate Control.
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Keystone Prairie Dogs: This is the last in a series of three eBooks, which uses social commentary and photographic parodies-to raise awareness of a highly valuable and misunderstood species in the hopes of broadening the conversation through humor combined with education.
The Keystone Prairie Dog images represent spoofs on a broad range of subjects, including the colonizing Mars, which has been an increasingly hot topic, as NASA steps up the pace...
19) Kindred souls
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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 stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author's reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears - neighbours, drunks, misfits - all with a place in the story. These are the tales of a father who lived hard, failed often, and was loved much, of a mother who was an artist at heart...
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