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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
2) Weslandia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
3) Plantzilla
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Norman is always fighting to keep his half of the bedroom spotless and free from the mess on Michael's half. Then the appearance of two giant plants that eat litter solves the problem for a short while.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they ... meet ... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy. Is this just part of their father's 'harmless' experiment? Or has the basement turned...
9) The warning
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed...
12) What will grow?
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
250L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Seeds can be big or small, round or pointy, and all sorts of colors. They can become flowers, trees, fruits, or vegetables, and they grow all times of year, during spring, summer, fall, and winter. But all seeds have one thing in common--inside each is a new plant life waiting to emerge. What kind of plant will bloom? Wait and see what will grow! This jacketed companion picture book to What Will Hatch? features all kinds of seeds, from flowers and...
15) Wings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
16) Bloom boom!
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
120L
Language
English
Description
Photo illustrations capture a boom of blooming flowers in the springtime.
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, including poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control...
18) Starfire
Author
Language
English
Description
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
20) Fran's flower
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a flower pot containing a tiny green shoot, a little girl tries to encourage the plant to grow by feeding it pizza and chocolate chip cookies, but when it still won't grow and bloom, she throws it out the door.