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Father Water, Mother Woods
These essays recount Paulsen's adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of Northern Minnesota. Paulsen shows us fishing, hunting, and camping as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of lessons about life.
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Cod's Tale, A
With charming illustrations and text, this book makes a case for ecology and conservation by presenting the history of cod. Also included are a timeline as a crawler at the bottom of the page and further suggestions for reading.
Author: Kurlansky, Mark |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Mermaid Summer, The
Jon and Ana, brother and sister, display intelligence and courage as they break a mermaid's curse on their grandfather and the fishing community.
Moby-Dick
Melville's classic tale of Ahab's obsessive hunt for the great white whale Moby Dick is retold in a format that includes excerpts from the original, summarized passages (each in a different type face), a very helpful glossary, a labeled cross-section of t
Author: Melville, Herman/Needle, Jan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Young Man and the Sea, The
In an attempt to push his father out of the alcohol-fueled funk he's been in since his wife died, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman repairs the family fishing boat and meets a 900-lb. tuna 30 miles at sea.
Author: Philbrick, Rodman |
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Young Man and the Sea, The
In an attempt to push his father out of the alcohol-fueled funk he's been in since his wife died, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman repairs the family fishing boat and meets a 900-lb. tuna 30 miles at sea.
Author: Philbrick, Rodman |
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