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Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to life

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Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to life

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Written and Illustrated by:
Penny Chisholm and Molly Bang

Summary:
A story in the perspective of the sun, it tells of all the things it does for the Earth, including creating energy and sustaining living things.

Important Features:
Poetic text, Notest About the Book, Further Information (back of book)

Subtopics:
Earth Science, Flowers & Plants, Biology, Photosynthesis

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Author:
Kevin Kurtz

Summary:
A compare and contrast book which helps readers figure out if things are living or nonliving.

Important Features:
Photographed pictures, Teaching Guide, Activity, Interactive ebook available

Subtopics:
Compare and Contrast, Living and Nonliving, Sort, Movement

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Author:
Elizabeth Austen

Summary:
Readers learn what livings things need in order to stay alive.

Important Features:
Colorful pictures, Large Text, Activity Glossary, Index

Sub Topics:
Light, Food, Water, Air, Space, Homes, Protection

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Author:
Kelli Hicks

Summary:
Readers learn about what makes a living thing and what they need to survive and what things are in nature but are nonliving.

Important Features:
Captions, Real Pictures, Large Text

Sub Topics:
Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Food

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Plants Are Living Things (Introducing Living Things)

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Plants Are Living Things (Introducing Living Things)

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Author:
Bobbie Kalman

Summary:
A book that shares the characteristics that make plants and how they not only grow but create clean air and make food

Important Features:
Glossary, Definitions, Captions, Real pictures

Sub Topics:
Cells,  Air, Food

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What Is a Living Thing? (The Science of Living Things)

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What Is a Living Thing? (The Science of Living Things)

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Author:
Bobbie Kalman

Summary:
An informative book explaining how air covers the Earth and helps protect us from the Earth's sun. The text continues to explain how living things need both air and the sun, and how nonliving things do not necessarily need either.

Important Features:
Realistic Pictures, Glossary

Sub Topics:
Air, Energy, Growth, Locomotion, Reproduction, Breathing, Animals, Plants

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Author:
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Illustrator:
Nadine Bernard Westcott

Summary:
A story that encourages readers to ask themselves what they have in common with the things around them and what makes the readers different from the things around them. The story explains what makes something be and stay alive and what happens when living thing is not longer alive.

Important Features:
Asks Questions, Activities

Sub Topics:
Plants, Animals, Inanimate Objects, Air, Death

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Author:
Susan A. Shea

Illustrator:
Tom Slaughter

Summary:
A story which helps children explore what kinds of things grow. Comparing the possibility of animals growing and inanimate objects growing, like shovels becoming plows.

Important Features:
Illustrations, Flaps, Lyrical Style

Sub Topics:
Inanimate Objects, Animals, Plants