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1) Prairie days
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Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
2) 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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Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the remainder in the United States), the prairies occupy the heartland...
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Explores prairie habitats, including different types of prairie grass, special prairie animals, and current threats to the world's prairies. Have you ever wanted to learn more about the habitat in which you live? Or learn more about another habitat? Each book in the Habitats series brings readers up close to a different habitat from around the world. Photographs and easy-to-read text share information about climate, plants, animals, and more!
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"--
11) Butterfly count
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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 attract and watch them.
12) 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 gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...
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CBA best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer captivated millions with her emotionally moving gem Waiting for Summer's Return-a CBD Top-Twenty Fiction. Set in 1936 Kansas, Where Willows Grow transports listeners to America's drought-stricken heartland as the hopes and dreams of hardworking farmers blow away with the wind. As pregnant Anna Mae and her husband Harley struggle to feed their growing family, Harley travels 100 miles to build a WPA monument....
15) The prairie
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The sequel to The Pioneers finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of the animals.
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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...
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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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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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Fact: At one time prairies covered about 40% of the United States but today only about 1% of North American prairies exist. P is for Prairie Dog: A Prairie Alphabet explores North American prairies as it explains their important role and showcases their wonders. Science writer Anthony Fredericks gives an A-Z tour of the many facets and fascinating facts of the prairie ecosystem. Inhabitants including the bison, the quail, and, of course, the prairie...
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"International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world--a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot--a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake's tragedy was truly an accident after all....
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