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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.
Author
Series
Mistletoe romance volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fun and festive sexy Christmas romance, originally launched as an Audible Original in November 2020. Nick Winters and Noel Carter have known each other their whole lives, but when Nick moves back home just in time for the holidays, Noel is there to show him that he can still have a Wonderful Christmastime without his cheating ex"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the flora and fauna that inhabit a Christmas tree farm throughout the year and use the growing trees for a variety of purposes. Includes section on how the farmer takes care of the farm through the year.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
American Charles Hayden came to England to forget the past. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles hopes to put his life back together with a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood. But soon after settling into Hollow's remote Yorkshire home, Charles learns that the past isn't dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
Author
Series
Fletcher books (Julia Rawlinson) volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his favorite tree begins to lose its leaves, Fletcher the fox worries that it is sick, but instead a magical sight is in store for him.
Author
Series
Life in Icicle Falls volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When author and Christmas expert Muriel Sterling receives a disappointing Christmas tree that she ordered online, she makes it into a craft project and begins to learn the power of potential as she inspires her friends and sees her grumpy neighbor in a new light.--
11) Lovelight farms
Author
Series
Lovelight novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two best friends fake date to reach their holiday happily ever after in this first romantic comedy in the Lovelight series. A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom's dreams. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since she was a kid, Stella enters a contest with Instagram-famous...
14) Wonderfall
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a single tree through the changing of the seasons from fall to winter, as people, animals, and vehicles pass in front of the tree, celebrating holidays, playing in the leaves, and building nests. Includes blended words.
16) Christmas tree!
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Christmas trees come in all shapes and sizes and can be found in almost any setting, but there is only one "best" Christmas tree.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Maggie visits the Christmas tree man on Liberty Street, then brings her brothers, sister, and finally her parents, as they each dream their own dreams of what it means to have a Christmas tree in the city.
20) Little tree
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Tree is very happy in the forest, where he is surrounded by other little trees and his leaves keep him cool in the heat of summer, but when autumn comes and the other trees drop their leaves, Little Tree cannot be persuaded to let his go, even after they wither and turn brown.
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