Bruce McMillan
8) Time to
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy's day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.
9) The baby zoo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photos present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The women of one village in Iceland decide to plant trees to stop the powerful winds that make it difficult even to go for a walk, but first they must find a ways to prevent sheep from eating all of their saplings, while encouraging chickens to fertilize them.
13) Wild flamingos
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A photo essay describing the physical characteristics, natural habitat, and behavior of the flamingos of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how a young girl living fifty miles from the Arctic Circle gets her horse ready to participate in the annual rettir, or gathering of sheep, in their farming community in Iceland.
18) The weather sky
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
A study of weather patterns and clouds that occur in the Earth's temperate zones.
20) Gletta the foal
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An Icelandic foal searches for the source of something that she can hear but not see.