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Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN: 9780689839672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Henry Bear plans to search for his father, who left a park in Henry's care when he went off in a hot air balloon.

Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307548449
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Money’s tight and Henry is lucky to have the job at Mr. Hairston’s grocery store. His parents are both lost in despair following the death of Henry’s older brother, and Henry is glad for the opportunity to feel like he’s helping. Saving to buy a marker for Eddie’s grave, Henry tries to ignore Mr. Hairston’s commentary about the customers. But Henry is shocked when he is told he’s being laid off. That is, unless he agrees to do one thing, one terrible thing.

Author: Henry Beard
Publisher: Villard Books
ISBN: 9780679449508
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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The acute social observers and satirists responsible for O.J.'s Legal Pad and Latin for All Occasions now use the magic of photo-imagery to recount the timeless tale of the quintessential outsider coping with the harsh reality of New York in the '90s, starring Gus, the lovable and neurotic polar bear of the Central Park Zoo.

Author: April Pulley Sayre
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466851120
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Can you eat like a bear? A sleepy bear awakes in spring and goes to find food. But what is there to eat in April? In May? Follow along and eat like a bear throughout the year: fish from a stream, ants from a tree, and delicious huckleberries from a bush. Fill up your belly and prepare for the long winter ahead, when you'll snuggle into your warm den and snore like a bear once again.

Author: Stella Blackstone
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781846860553
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Bear looks for shapes everywhere, such as for rectangles in a school and for stars in the nighttime sky.

Author: Henry W. Shoemaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bald Eagle Mountain (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Jordan Fisher Smith
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307454266
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. Their testimony would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades of patchwork efforts to preserve an idea of nature that had never existed in the first place. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled twentieth-century growth of the conservationist movement, Smith gives the lie to the portrayal of national parks as Edenic wonderlands unspoiled until the arrival of Europeans, and shows how virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. In the tradition of John McPhee's The Control of Nature and Alan Burdick's Out of Eden, Jordan Fisher Smith has produced a powerful work of popular science and environmental history, grappling with critical issues that we have even now yet to resolve.

Author: Chang-rae Lee
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1573225312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

Author: Kadir Nelson
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
ISBN: 9780062241726
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From Kadir Nelson, winner of the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, comes a transcendent picture book in the tradition of Margaret Wise Brown about a lost little bear searching for home. This simple story works on so many levels: as the tale of a bear who finds his way home with the help of his animal friends; as a reassuring way to show children how to comfort themselves and find their way in everyday life; and on a more philosophical level, as a method of teaching readers that by listening to your heart and trusting yourself, you will always find a true home within yourself—and that even when it feels like you are alone, you never really are. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Author: Tim Cooke
Publisher: Travel with the Great Explorer
ISBN: 9780778712466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Readers learn about the travels of English explorer and sea navigator Henry Hudson.