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Author
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...
4) Tulips
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the tulip flower, the colors and varieties of tulips, the bulbs and seeds, and the various insect pests and diseases that may attack these popular spring flowering bulbs.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 18
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Attending an art class in the Netherlands, Violet journeys through the flower gardens, windmills and canals of Holland to investigate the untimely disappearance of her friend's father, a renowned botanist whose absence is linked to a rare black tulip.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine-up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett-Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly-and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep when...
11) Ludlow grows up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Ludlow the flower bulb is reluctant to grow up.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Petal fairies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 750L
Language
English
Description
"Tia the Tulip Fairy's petal is lost in the apple orchard. Can Rachel and Kirsty find it... before Jack Frost's goblins do?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When cold weather arrives, five friends (a grub, a beetle, two worms and a caterpillar) prepare for the winter. They amuse themselves in conversation and by playing games. But a little caterpillar only wants to sleep and dream.
18) Tulips
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs examine the life cycle of tulips.
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