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Title	Author	Subject	Level	Tags
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds	Richards, Jean	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Fruit, Get Local, Seeds
A Handful of Dirt	Bial, Raymond	Rocks and Soil	3-5, K-2	Gardening, March, Nonfiction, Soil, This Week in the Garden
A Harvest of Color – Growing A Vegetable Garden	Eclare, Melanie	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Field Trip, Gardens, March, This Week in the Garden, Vegetables
A is for Appalachia! – The Alphabet Book of Appalachian Heritage	Pack, Linda	Alphabet	3-5, K-2	Alphabet, Appalachia, Field Trip
Agatha’s Feather Bed	Deedy, Carmen	Birds	K-2	Fiber, Fiction, Origin, Weaving
Alejandro’s Gift	Albert, Richard	Gardening	3-5	desert, Fiction, habitat
Alison’s Zinnias	Lobel, Anita	Alphabet	K-2	Alliteration, Alphabet, Flowers
All the Places to Love	MacLachlan, Patricia	Farm Life	K-2	Country Life, Farmers, Fiction, Field Trip, January, This Week in the Garden
Alphabet Garden	Coats, Laura	Alphabet		Alphabet, Gardens
Alphabetical Soup	Spafford, Suzy	Alphabet	K-2	Alphabet, Soup
Alvie Eats Soup	Collins, Ross	Food	K-2	Fiction, Soup
Amazing Bats	Greenaway, Frank	Bats	3-5	Bats, Nonfiction
Amazing Spiders	Parsons, Alexandra	Insects and Spiders	3-5	Nonfiction, Spiders
Amazing World of Ants	Sabin, Francene	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
An Earthworm’s Life	Himmelman, John	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
An Edible Alphabet	Christensen, Bonnie	Alphabet		Alphabet, Gardens
An Edible Alphabet: 26 Reasons to Love the Farm	Watterson, Carol	Alphabet	K-2	Alphabet, Farming, Nonfiction
Ana Cultiva Manzanas / Apple Farmer Annie	Wellington, Monica	Get Local	K-2	Apples, Fiction, Recipe, Spanish
And So They Build	Kitchen, Bert	Birds	3-5	Birds, Fish, habitat, Nonfiction, Spiders
And the Good Brown Earth	Henderson, Kathy	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Gardening, Grandparents, November, Persistence, Seasons, This Week in the Garden
Angel Hide and Seek	Turner, Ann	Farm Life	K-2	Fiction, Flowers
Anna’s Corn	Santucci, Barbara	Farm Life	3-5	Corn, Farming, Fiction
Appalachian ABCs	Hall, Francie	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Fiction, Rhyming
Apple Picking Time	Slawson, Michele	Get Local	K-2	Apples, Farming, Fiction, Persistence
Apples	Gibbons, Gail	Get Local	K-2, Preschool	Apples, Nonfiction
Apples, Apples, Apples	Wallace, Nancy	Get Local	K-2, Preschool	Apples
Apples for Everyone	Esbaum, Jill	Get Local	K-2, Preschool	Apples, Nonfiction
Applesauce	Kurtz, S	Get Local, Recipe Books		Apples, December, February, January, March, Recipe
Applesauce Season	Lipson, Eden	Get Local		Apples, December, February, January, March, Recipe, This Week in the Garden
Are you a Bee?	Allen, Judie; Humphries, Tudor	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Bees, Fiction, Nonfiction
Are you a Butterfly?	Allen, Judie; Humphries, Tudor	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Butterfly, Fiction, Nonfiction
Are you a Spider?	Allen, Judie; Humphries, Tudor	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Fiction, Nonfiction, Spiders
Around the Oak		Farm Life	3-5	Fiction, Nonfiction, Seasons
Audubon Society First Field Guide – Insects	Wilsdon, Christina	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic	Schnur, Steven	Alphabet	K-2	Fiction, Poetry, Seasons
B-b-b-bats	Gentner, Norma	Bats		Nonfiction
Backyard Detective: Critters Up Close			K-2	Insects, Nonfiction, Science
Barn	Atwell, Debby	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Farming, Fiction
Barnyard Banter	Fleming, Denise	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Farming, Rhyming
Basket Moon	Ray, Mary	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Fiction, Passion, Weaving
Bat Loves the Night	Davies, Nicola	Bats		Nonfiction
Bat Time	Horowitz, Ruth	Bats		Nonfiction
Bats – Creatures of the Night	Milton, Joyce	Bats	K-2	Bats, Nonfiction
Bats for Kids	Lundberg, Kathryn	Bats	3-5	Bats, Nonfiction
Bats: Swift Shadows in the Twilight	Cooper, Ann	Bats	3-5, K-2	Activity, Bats, Nonfiction
Be a Friend to Trees	Lauber, Patricia	Trees	K-2, Preschool	Nonfiction, Science, Trees
Bear and Bunny Grow Tomatoes		Gardening	K-2, Preschool	August, Fiction, Friendship, Responsibility, Tomatoes
Beatrice’s Goat	McBrier, Page	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Farming, Fiction, Goats, Responsibility
Bee Gets a Sweater	Faulkner, Keith	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Fable, Fiber, Fiction, Spiders
Beekeepers	High, Linda	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Bees, Fiction, Insects, Nonfiction
Bees and Wasps	Eastman, David	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
Beetle Alphabet Book	Biedrzycki, David; Pallotta, Jerry	Alphabet		Alphabet, Beetles, Nonfiction
Big Bug Book	Carter, David	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Pop-up Book
Big Bug Search	Young, Caroline; Jackson, Ian	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
Big Fat Worm	Laan, Nancy	Worms		Fiction, Nonfiction, Worms
Big Red Barn	Brown, Margaret	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Farming, Fiction
Birds	Canizares, Susan	Birds	K-2, Preschool	Birds, Nonfiction
Birds’ Woodland – What Lives There	Farrar, Richard	Birds	3-5, K-2	Birds, Nonfiction
Birdsong	Wood, Audrey	Birds	K-2	Birds, habitat
The Blackberry Patch	D'Andrea, Gina	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	Blackberries, Fiction, Senses
Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes	Creasy, Rosalind	Birds, Get Local		August, Nonfiction, November, Potatoes, Tomatoes
Blueberries For Sal	McCloskey, Robert	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	Bears, Blueberries, Fiction, This Week in the Garden
Bluebird Summer	Hopkinson, Deborah	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Birds, Gardening, Grandparents
Brilliant Bees	Glaser, Linda	Insects and Spiders	K-2	April, Bees, Counting, Insects, Nonfiction, Rhyming, This Week in the Garden
Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie	Gourley, Robbin	Get Local	3-5, K-2	Apples, December, Family, Farming, February, January, Recipe, This Week in the Garden
Bugs	Hale, Jenny; Novick, Mary	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Nonfiction
Butterflies Fly	Winer, Yvonne	Insects and Spiders, Poetry		Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Butterflies (Hello Readers Level 2)	Shapiro, Karen	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Butterflies, Hello Readers, Nonfiction
Butterflies in the Garden	Lerner, Carol	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Gardens
Butterfly Alphabet Book	Cassie, Brian; Pallotta, Jerry	Alphabet	K-2	Alphabet, Butterflies, Nonfiction
Butterfly Counting Book	Pallotta, Jerry	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Kindergarten	Butterflies, Counting, Nonfiction
Butterfly House	Bunting, Eve	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Butterflies, Fiction, Grandparents
Cabbages and Kings	Seabrook, Elizabeth	Get Local	3-5, K-2	Asparagus, Cabbage, Farming, Fiction, Get Local, October, This Week in the Garden
Carlos and the Squash Plant	Stevens, Jan	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Fiction, Spanish, Squash
Carrots	Snyder, Inez	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Carrots, Nonfiction
Chicks and Salsa	Reynolds, Aaron	Farm Life	K-2	Chickens, Recipe, Salsa
City Green	DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne		3-5, K-2	Fiction, Gardening, Persistence
Clara Caterpillar	Edwards, Pamela	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Preschool	Butterflies, Cabbage, Caterpillars, Fiction
Clarabelle: Making Milk and So Much More	Peterson, Cris		K-2	Cows, Dairy, Milk, Nonfiction
Clever Kids: Science, Ages 8-10	Book, World		3-5	Experiments, Nonfiction, Science
Color me a Rhyme	Yolen, Jane	Poetry	K-2, Preschool	Poetry, Rhyming
Compost Stew	Siddals, Mary	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Fiction, Rhyming
Composting	Koontz, Robin	Gardening	K-2	Insects, Nonfiction, Worms
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo	Stevens, Janet; Crummel, Susan	Food	3-5, K-2	Cooking, Fiction, Recipe, Strawberries
Cool as a Cucumber!	Smallwood, Sally		Preschool	Vegetables
Corn	Gibbons, Gail	Fruits and Veggies	3-5, K-2, Preschool	Corn, Nonfiction, Popcorn
Corn is Maize	Aliki,	Fruits and Veggies	3-5, K-2, Preschool	Corn, Nonfiction
Cottage Garden Alphabet	Wisnewski, Andrea	Alphabet	K-2	Alphabet, Country Life, Gardens, Nonfiction
Counting in the Garden	Parker, Kim	Gardening	K-2, Preschool	Counting, Gardens
Cows	Stone, Lynn	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Cows, Nonfiction
Cow’s Alfalfa-bet	Jackson, Woody	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Country Life, Cows, Farming
Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs	Burns, Diane	Fruits and Veggies	3-5, K-2	Farming, Fruit, Nonfiction
Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky	Heard, Georgia	Poetry	3-5, K-2	Birds, Poetry
Creepy Crawlies	Stidworthy, John	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Nonfiction
Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Birds	Arnosky, Jim	Birds	3-5, K-2	Birds, Nonfiction
Cucumber Soup	Krudwig, Vickie	Get Local		Counting, Cucumbers, Get Local, Insects, Recipe, September, Spanish, This Week in the Garden
Davenport Dumpling	McConnell, Robert	Fruits and Veggies, Poetry	3-5, K-2	Cooking, Poetry, Rhyming, Vegetables
Dear Children of the Earth	Schimmel, Schim		3-5, K-2	Fiction
Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here	George, Jean	Seasons	K-2, Preschool	Country Life, Fiction, Seasons
Delicious! A Pumpkin Soup Story	Cooper, Helen	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Cooking, Fiction, Recipe, Vegetables
Diary of a Worm	Cronin, Doreen	Worms	3-5, K-2	Fiction, Worms
Dig Into Rocks, Minerals, and Crystals	Center, The	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Dig Into Rocks: Minerals and Rocks	Wilson, Beverly; Rundell, Shore	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
Dirt	Tomecek, Steve	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Do Lions Like Lettuce?	Butterfield, Moira	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Fiction, Vegetables
Double Delight: Bugs	Hale, Jenny; Novick, Mary	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Preschool	Insects
Earth & Us: Continuous	Lewis, J.	Ecology	K-2	Birds, Ecology, Insects
Earthwatch – Earthcycles and Ecosystems	Savan, Beth	Worms	3-5	Experiments, Nonfiction, Worms
Eat Lots of Colors	Marstiller, Helen	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	Colors, Nutrition, Rhyming
Eat Where You Live	Bendrick, Lou	Recipe Books	3-5	Recipe
Eating the Alphabet – Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z	Ehlert, Lois	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Fruit, Nonfiction, Vegetables
Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow	Garland, Sarah	Gardening	K-2	Gardening, Gardens, Grandparents, Persistence
Empanadas that Abuela Made	Bertrand, Diane	Food	K-2	Grandparents, Pumpkin, Recipe, Spanish
Every Living Thing	Rylant, Cynthia	Farm Life	3-5	Country Life
Everybody Bakes Bread	Dooley, Norah	Food	3-5, K-2	Bread, Recipe
Everybody Cooks Rice	Dooley, Norah	Food	3-5, K-2	Recipe, Rice
Everybody Needs a Rock	Baylor, Byrd	Ecology	3-5, K-2	Ecology, Rocks, September, This Week in the Garden
Everybody Serves Soup	Dooley, Norah	Food	3-5, K-2	City Life, Recipe, Soup
Explore the Wild	Duncan, Beverly	Ecology	K-2	desert, habitat, Nonfiction
Farm	Cooper, Elisha	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Corn, Country Life, Farmers, Farming, Seasons
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep	Sloat, Teri	Farm Life	K-2	Farmers, Farming, Fiber
Farmer Duck	Waddell, Martin	Farm Life	K-2	Farmers, Farming
Farmer’s Alphabet	Azarian, Mary	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Country Life, Farmers, Farming, Field Trip
Farming	Gibbons, Gail	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Country Life, Farmers, Farming
Farming	Love, Ann	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Farmers, Farms
Field of Sunflowers	Johnson, Neil	Gardening	K-2, Preschool	County Life, Farming, Flowers
Field Trips	Arnosky, Jim	Ecology	3-5	Ecology, habitat
Firefly Night	Gerber, Carole	Insects and Spiders		Insects
First Garden: The White House Garden and How it Grew	Gourley, Robbin	Gardening	K-2	Fruit, Gardening, Recipe, Vegetables
First Tomato	Wells, Rosemary	Get Local	K-2, Preschool	August, Get Local, Tomatoes
Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move	Macken, JoAnn	Ecology	K-2	Seeds, Trees
Flip: The True Story of a Dairy Farm Goat	Moncure, Jane	Farm Life	K-2	Dairy, Goats
Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants	Gaff, Jackie	Ecology	K-2	Ecology, habitat, Seeds, Trees
Food For Thought		Fruits and Veggies	3-5	August, Get Local, November, Potatoes, Tomatoes
Food Rules	Pollan, Michael	Food	3-5	Nutrition
Freckles: The Mystery of the Little White Dog in the Desert	Howey, Paul	Ecology	3-5, K-2	Country Life, desert, Ecology, Persistence
Frogs, Toads, and Turtles	Burns, Diane	Ecology	K-2	habitat
From Caterpillar to Butterfly	Heiligman, Deborah	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Preschool	Butterflies, Nonfiction
From Dawn till Dusk	Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Family, Farming, Farms, Grandparents
From Seed to Plant	Gibbons, Gail		K-2, Preschool	Gardening, Seasons, Seeds
From Seed to Pumpkin	Pfeffer, Wendy	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Gardening, Gardens, Pumpkins, Seasons, Seeds
From Seed to Sunflower	Legg, Gerald	Gardening	K-2	Flowers, Seasons, Seeds
G is for Goat	Polacco, Patricia	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Goats, Rhyming
Garden Alphabet	Wilner, Isabel	Alphabet	K-2	Alphabet, Flowers, Gardens
Garden Birds	Lindsey, Terence	Birds	K-2	Birds, Field Guides
Garden Wigglers	Loewen, Nancy	Worms	K-2, Preschool	Ecology, Worms
Gardener’s Alphabet	Azarian, Mary	Alphabet	K-2, Preschool	Alphabet, Flowers, Gardens
Gathering the Sun	Ada, Alma	Alphabet		Alphabet, Spanish
Giant Book of Bugs	Pipe, Jim	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Nonfiction
Giants in the Land	Appelbaum, Diana	Trees	3-5, K-2	Trees
Going to Sleep on the Farm	Lewison, Wendy	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Farms, Rhyming
Good Bugs for Your Garden	Starcher, Allison	Insects and Spiders		Gardens, Insects
Good Enough to Eat	Rockwell, Lizzy	Food	K-2, Preschool	Food, Nutrition, Recipe, Vegetables
Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip	Hester, D	Giant Veggies	K-2	Grandparents, Persistence, Turnips, Vegetables
Grandma’s Garden	Moore, Elaine	Gardening	K-2	Gardening, Grandparents, Seeds
Grandpa’s Garden	Darian, Shea	Gardening	K-2	Gardening, Grandparents
Grandpa’s Too-Good Garden	Stevenson, James	Gardening	K-2	Butterflies, Gardening, Grandparents
Gregory the Terrible Eater	Sharmat, Mitchell	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	Food, Goats, Nutrition, Vegetables
Growing Colors	McMillan, Bruce	Fruits and Veggies	Preschool	Colors, Fruit, Vegetables
Growing Like Me	Rockwell, Anne	Ecology	Preschool	habitat, Seeds, Trees
Growing Vegetable Soup	Ehlert, Lois	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Field Trip, Gardens, October, Spanish, This Week in the Garden, Vegetables
Harvest	Waldherr, Kris	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	Fruit, Gardening, Vegetables
Harvest Home	Yolen, Jane	Farm Life	K-2	Country Life, Farming, Fiction
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez	Krull, Kathleen	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	desert, Farming, November, This Week in the Garden
Henrietta and the Golden Egg	Johansen, Hanna	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Chickens, Farming, Fiction, Persistence
Hollyhock Days	Lovejoy, Sharon	Gardening	3-5	Gardening, Gardens, Nonfiction
Home	Baker, Jeannie	Gardening	3-5, K-2	City Life, Family, Gardens
Homespun Sarah	Kay, Verla	Farm Life	K-2	Country Life, Farming, Fiber, Rhyming
Honey in a Hive	Rockwell, Anne	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Bees, Insects, Nonfiction
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest	Jenkins, Steve	Ecology	K-2	Ecology, habitat, Nonfiction
How Did That Get Into My Lunchbox?	Butterworth, Chris	Food	3-5, K-2	Food, Fruit, Nonfiction, Vegetables
How Do Things Grow?	Althea,	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Family, Insects
How Do You Raise a Raisin?	Ryan, Pam	Fruits and Veggies		Fruit, Nonfiction, Rhyming
How Groundhog’s Garden Grew	Cherry, Lynne	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Gardening, Gardens, Insects
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin	Karas, G.; McNamara, Margaret	Fruits and Veggies	K-2	October, Pumpkins, This Week in the Garden
I Will Not Ever Eat a Tomato	Child, Lauren	Fruits and Veggies, Get Local	K-2	August, Get Local, This Week in the Garden, Tomatoes
I Wish I Were a Butterfly	Howe, James	Insects and Spiders	3-5, K-2	Butterflies, Fiction
In Our Backyard Garden	Spinelli, Eileen	Poetry	3-5, K-2	Family, Gardens, Grandparents, Poetry
In the Garden with Dr. Carver	Grigsby, Susan	Fruits and Veggies, Gardening	3-5, K-2	Farming, Vegetables
In the Trees, Honey Bees	Mortensen, Lori	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Preschool	Bees, Insects, Rhyming
Inch by Inch	Mallet, David	Poetry	K-2, Preschool	Gardens, Music, Rhyming
Inchworm and a Half	Pinczes, Elinor	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
Insectlopedia	Florian, Douglas	Insects and Spiders, Poetry	K-2	Field Trip, Insects, Poetry, Rhyming, Spiders
Insects are My Life	Mcdonald, Megan	Insects and Spiders		Fiction, Insects
Interrupting Chicken	Stein, David	Farm Life	K-2, Preschool	Chickens, Fiction
Into the Woods	Burleigh, Robert	Birds	3-5, K-2	Birds, Ecology, habitat, Rhyming, Trees
Introducing Birds to Young Naturalists	Hiller, Ilo	Birds		Nonfiction
It’s Disgusting and We Ate It!	Solheim, James	Food	3-5, K-2	Food
It’s Summer!	Glaser, Linda	Seasons	K-2, Preschool	Rhyming, Summer
Jack and the Animals	Harvill, Kitty	Farm Life	K-2	Appalachia, Country Life
Jack’s Garden	Cole, Henry	Gardening	K-2, Preschool	Field Trip, Gardens
Jamberry	Degen, Bruce	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Preschool	Berries, Blackberries, Get Local, July, May, Strawberries
Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato	DePaola, Tomie	Get Local	K-2, Preschool	Get Local, November, Potatoes
Jody’s Beans	Doyle, Malachy		3-5	Beans, Field Trip
John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist	Lasky, Kathryn		3-5, K-2	Ecology, Nonfiction
Johnny Appleseed	Kellogg, Steven		K-2, Preschool	Apples, December, Fable, February, Get Local, January
King of the Birds	Ward, Helen	Birds		Fiction, Nonfiction
Ladybug Garden	Godkin, Celia	Insects and Spiders		Gardens, Insects
Ladybugs	Posada, Mia	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Nonfiction
Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes	Yumei, Demian			August, Get Local, This Week in the Garden, Tomatoes
Looking at Rocks (My First Field Guide)	Dussling, Jennifer	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog Beast	Cole, Joanna	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Magic School Bus, Nonfiction
Magic School Bus Going Batty	Cole, Joanna	Bats		Fiction, Magic School Bus, Nonfiction
Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad	Cole, Joanna	Rocks and Soil		Fiction, Magic School Bus, Nonfiction
Mighty Spiders!	Robinson, Fay	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction, Spiders
Miss Spider’s Tea Party	Kirk, David	Insects and Spiders		Spiders
Monarch Butterfly	Garland, P	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Monarch, Nonfiction
Monarch Butterfly	Gibbons, G	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Monarch, Nonfiction
Monarch Butterfly of Aster Way	Ring, Elizabeth	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Monarch, Nonfiction
Monarch Magic!	Rosenblatt, Lynn	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Monarch
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!	Fleming, Candace		Preschool	Gardens
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects	Society, National	Insects and Spiders		Field Guides, Insects, Nonfiction
National Geographic My First Pocket Guide Garden Birds	Lindsey, Terence	Birds		Nonfiction
Over in the Garden	Ward, Jennifer	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Counting, Gardens, Insects, Music
Peterson First Guides – Insects	Leahy, Christopher	Insects and Spiders		Field Guides, Insects, Nonfiction
Pick Pull Snap: Where Once a Flower Bloomed	Schaefer, Lola
Plant and Animal Alphabet Coloring Book	Tillett, Leslie	Alphabet		Nonfiction
Prairie Primer A to Z	Stutson, Caroline	Alphabet		Fiction
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes	Henderson, Ann; Katzen, Mollie	Recipe Books	Preschool	Recipe
Prince of Butterflies	Coville, Bruce	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Fiction
Pumpkin Circle – The Story of a Garden	Levenson, George		3-5, Preschool	Field Trip, Gardens, Pumpkins
Pumpkin Soup	Cooper, H	Fruits and Veggies, Recipe Books		Pumpkins, Recipe, Soup
Remarkable Rocks	Cole, Ron	Rocks and Soil		Big Book, Nonfiction
Rocks and Minerals	Ricciuti, Edward	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Rocks and Minerals	Parker, Steve	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Rocks & Minerals (Eyewitness Explorers)	Parker, Steve	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Round the Garden	Glaser, Omri		K-2	Gardens
Saving Strawberry Farm	Hopkinson, Deborah	Farm Life, Fruits and Veggies, Get Local	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Farming, Get Local, May, Strawberries
The Scarecrow	Rylant, Cynthia		3-5, Preschool	Field Trip, Gardens, October, This Week in the Garden
Scarlette Beane	Wallace, Karen		K-2	Field Trip, Gardens, Vegetables
Sembrar Sopa de Verduras	Ehlert, L	Recipe Books		Recipe, Soup
Simon and Shuster’s Guide – Insects	Jacques, Richard; Arnett, Ross	Insects and Spiders		Field Guides, Insects, Nonfiction
Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup, Caldo, Caldo, Caldo	Bertrand, D	Recipe Books		Recipe, Soup
Soil	Ditchfield, Christin	Rocks and Soil		Nonfiction
Sophie’s Masterpiece	Spinelli, Eileen	Insects and Spiders		Fiction
Spice Alphabet Book	Pallotta, Jerry	Alphabet		Herbs, Nonfiction, Spices
Spiders	Merrians, Deborah	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction, Spiders
Spiders	Gibbons, Gail	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction, Spiders
Spiders and Scorpions	Hillyard, Paul	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction, Spiders
Spiders Spin Webs	Merrians, Deborah; Winer, Yvonne	Insects and Spiders		Fiction, Nonfiction, Spiders
Squirmy Wormy Composters	Kalman, Bobble; Schaub, Janine	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
Stelluna	Cannon, Janell	Bats		Fiction
Sun Bread	Kleven, E	Recipe Books		Bread, Recipe
Sweet Potato Pie	Lindsey, K	Recipe Books		Recipe, Sweet Potatoes
Ten Seeds	Brown, Ruth		K-2	Counting, Seeds
The Animal Hedge	Fleischman, Paul	Farm Life	K-2	Farming, Fiction
The Bee Tree	Polacco, Patricia	Insects and Spiders	3-5, K-2	Bees, Fiction
The Berry Book	Gibbons, Gail	Get Local	K-2, Kindergarten	Blackberries, Blueberries, July, Nonfiction, Strawberries
The Best Kind of Gift	Appelt, Kathi	Farm Life		Country Life, Fiction, Grandparents
The Boy Who Grew Flowers	Wojtowicz, Jen	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Country Life, Fiction, Flowers, Friendship
The Carrot Seed	Krauss, Ruth	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Kindergarten, Preschool	Carrots, Fiction, Persistence
The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County	Harrington, Janice	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Chickens, Country Life, Fiction, Persistence
The Curious Garden	Brown, Peter	Gardening	K-2	Gardening, Persistence
The Enormous Potato	Davis, Aubrey	Get Local, Giant Veggies, Recipe Books		Get Local, November, Persistence, Potatoes
The Enormous Turnip	Tolstoy, A	Giant Veggies, Recipe Books		Turnips
The Family Butterfly Book	Mikula, Rick	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Nonfiction
The Fascinating World of Bats	Julivert, Maria	Bats	K-2	Bats, Nonfiction
The First Strawberries	Bruchac, Joseph	Fruits and Veggies	3-5, K-2	Get Local, May, Origin, Strawberries, This Week in the Garden
The Gardener	Stewart, Sarah	Gardening	3-5, K-2	City Life, Family, Flowers, Gardens, Grandparents
The Giant Cabbage	Stihler, Cherie	Get Local, Giant Veggies, Recipe Books		Cabbage, October
The Giant Carrot	Peck, Jan	Fruits and Veggies, Giant Veggies	K-2	Carrots, Persistence
The Giant Carrot	Manham, Allan	Giant Veggies	K-2	Carrots, Giant Veggies
The Giantic Sweet Potato	Casas, Dianne	Giant Veggies	K-2	Get Local, November, Persistence, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes
The Gigantic Turnip	Tolstoy, Alexei	Giant Veggies	K-2	Persistence, Turnips, Vegetables
The Goat in the Rug	Blood, Charles; Link, Martin	Farm Life	3-5, K-2	Fiber, Goats
The Good Garden	Milway, Katie	Food	3-5, K-2	Farming, Spanish
The Great Kapok Tree	Cherry, Lynne	Trees	3-5, K-2	Ecology, habitat, Trees
The Great Smoky Mountain Salamander Ball	Horstman, Lisa	Ecology	K-2	Appalachia, Rhyming
The Greatest Power	Demi,	Seasons	3-5, K-2	Seasons, Seeds
The Grouchy Ladybug	Carle, Eric	Insects and Spiders	K-2, Preschool	Counting, Insects
The Happy Hedgehog	Pfister, Marcus	Gardening	K-2	Gardening, Grandparents, Persistence
The Honey Makers	Gibbons, Gail	Insects and Spiders	K-2	April, Bees, Nonfiction, This Week in the Garden
The Honeybee Man	Nargi, Lela	Insects and Spiders	K-2	Bees, City Life, Insects
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear	Wood, Audrey; Wood, Don	Fruits and Veggies	K-2, Kindergarten, Preschool	Bears, Fiction, Get Local, May, Strawberries
The Moonflower	Loewer, Peter		K-2	Fiction, Flowers, Nonfiction
The Pickle Patch Bathtub	Kennedy, Frances			Cucumbers, Get Local, September, This Week in the Garden
The Popcorn Book	Paola, T	Recipe Books		Popcorn, Recipe
The Spider and the Fly	Howitt, Mary; Diterlizza, Tony	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Poetry, Spiders
The Tiny Seed	Carle, Eric	Seasons	K-2, Preschool	Flowers, Persistence, Seeds
The Vegetables We Eat	Gibbons, Gail			September, This Week in the Garden, Vegetables
Thinking About Ants	Brenner, Barbara	Insects and Spiders		Ants, Fiction, Nonfiction
This Year’s Garden	Rylant, Cynthia	Poetry	3-5	Field Trip, Gardens, Poetry
Tiny Tortilla	Williams, A	Recipe Books		Recipe, Tortillas
Too Many Pumpkins	White, Linda	Fruits and Veggies	3-5, K-2	Gardening, Pumpkins
Tops and Bottoms	Stevens, Janet		K-2, Preschool	Vegetables
Two Old Potatoes and Me	Coy, John	Get Local, Recipe Books	3-5	Family, Field Trip, Get Local, November, Persistence, Potatoes, Recipe
Under One Rock	Fredricks, Anthony	Insects and Spiders		Nonfiction
Usborne First Nature Creepy Crawlies	Kilpatrick, Cathy	Insects and Spiders		Insects, Nonfiction
Veggie Soup	Donohue, D	Recipe Books		Recipe, Soup
Very Hungry Caterpillar	Carle, Eric	Insects and Spiders		Fiction, Nonfiction
Victory Garden Vegetable Alphabet Book	Thomson, Bob; Pallotta, Jerry	Alphabet		Alphabet, Gardens, Nonfiction, Vegetables
Waiting for Wings	Ehlert, Lois	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Caterpillars, Fiction, Nonfiction
Weslandia	Fleischman, Paul	Gardening	3-5, K-2	Gardening
What Lives in the Garden?	Woodward, John	Insects and Spiders		Gardens, Insects, Nonfiction
What’s This?	Mockford, Caroline		Preschool	Seeds
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing	Hamilton, Virginia	Birds		Fiction
Where Butterflies Grow	Ryder, Joanne	Insects and Spiders		Butterflies, Nonfiction
Wiggling Worms at Work	Pfeffer, Wendy	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
Wings on the Wind – Bird Poems	Kiesler, Kate	Birds		Poetry
Winnie Finn, Worm Farmer	Brendler, Carol	Worms	3-5, K-2	Worms
Wonders of the Bat World	Lavine, Sigmund	Bats		Nonfiction
World of Bats	Johnson, Sylvia	Bats		Nonfiction
Worm Guide for Teachers	California, State	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
Worms Eat My Garbage	Appelhof, Mary	Worms		Nonfiction, Worms
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats	Earle, Anne	Bats		Nonfiction

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