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Wetlands

Wetlands Reading List Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12

List of books (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 2)

Box Turtle at Long Pond, William T. George
Come Out, Muskrats, Jim Arnosky
Common Frog, Oxford Scientific Films
Dragonflies, Cynthia Overbeck
Fish Eyes, Lois Ehleert
If You Were a Wild Duck Where Would You Go?, George Mendoza
Let's Find Out About Frogs, Corrine J. Naden
Lily Pad Pond, Bianca Lavies
The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
The Noisy Counting Book, Susan Schade and Jon Butler
Old Mother West Wind, Thornton W. Burgess
Puddles and Ponds, Rose Wyler
Rain Drop Splash, Alvin Tresselt
A River Dream, Allen Say
River Parade, Alexandria Day
The Seminole, Emilie U . Lepthier
Spring Peepers, Judy Hawes
The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Anderson
Willa in Wetlands, Peyton Lewis and Rory Chalcraft

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List of books (Grades 3 through 5)

Animals and Plants That Trap, Philip Goldstein
Animals of the Ponds and Streams, Julie Becker
Beaver Valley, Walter D. Edmonds
Dragonflies, Hilda Simon
Explore a Spooky Swamp, Wendy W. Cortesi
Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Salamanders, Nancy Winslow Parker and Joan Richards Wright
From Pond to Prairie, Laurence Pringle
Green Darner, Robert M. McClung
In the Middle of the Puddle, Mike Thaler
Island of the Loons, Dayton 0. Hyde
Marshes and Swamps, Linda M. Stone
The Mystery of the Great Swamp, Marjorie A. Sapf
Pond and River, Steve Parker
The Pond Book, Albro Gaal
Scoots the Bag Turtle, Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston
The Seminole, Martin Lee
Small Water Mammals, Maxwell Knight
Snails of Land and Sea, Hilda Smith
Swan Lake, Mark Helprin
Water Insects, Sylvia A. Johnson
Wetlands, Linda M. Stone
Wetlands: Bogs, Marshes and Swamps, Lewis Buck
Wonders of the Fields and Ponds at Night, Jacquellyn Berrill
The World of Fishes, Thomas D. Fagely

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List of books (Grades 6 through 8)

Estuaries, Where Rivers Meet the Sea, Laurence Pringle
Everglades Country, Patricia Lauber
Exploring the Great Swamp, George Laycock
Look What I Found, Marshal T. Case
Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
The Mystery of the Bog Forest, Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne
A Naturalist's Sketchbook, Claire Walker Leslie
Of Men and Marshes, Paul L. Errington
Pitcher Plants: 7he Elegant Insect Traps, Carol Lerner
Pond Life, George K. Reid
T'he Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Geographic Society
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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List of books (Grades 9 through 12)

Adopting a Stream: A Northwest Handbook, Steve Yates
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Amazon: The Flooded Forest, Michael Goulding
Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner
The Birder's Handbook.- A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds, Paul R. Erlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye
Caesars of the Wilderness, Peter C. Newman
Chesapeake, James A. Michener
Company of Adventures - The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company, Peter C. Newman
The Everglades: River of Grass, Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, Paul Russell Cartright
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh, John and Mildred Teal
The New Book of Oxford Canadian Verse, compiled by Margaret Atwood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Pond, Robert Murphy
The Portable Thoreau, revised edition by Carl Bode
Runes of the North, Sigurd F. Olson
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Swamp Fox, Robert Duncan Bass
This Incomparable Lande, Thomas J. Lyon
Through the Eyes of a Young Naturalist, William A. Sipple
Walking the Wetlands, Janet Lyons and Sandra Jordan
Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale
The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy
Water Pollution, Kathlyn Gay
Wetlands, William Niering
Wetlands, Max Firlaison and Michael Moser

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