seeds

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seeds

Plants grow from seeds

2004
Discusses the growth of plants from seeds in an easy-to-read text that incorporates phonics instruction.

Plant packages

a book about seeds
2003
Describes different kinds of seeds, explains how they turn into plants, and includes seed sayings, fun facts, and words to know.

From bird poop to wind

how seeds get around
2013
Highlights the life cycle of plants as young readers are introduced to the many different ways that plants disperse their seeds.

The carrot seed

1973
Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.

Who will plant a tree?

2010
Describes how a number of animals, such as squirrels, black bears, geese, and dolphins, unknowingly plant trees.

Uncertain peril

genetic engineering and the future of seeds
2008
Argues that the seeds that provide the world with food, fiber, and fuel are at risk from agricultural technologies, patents and corporate ownership, and the degradation of the environment; examines reasons why the author believes genetic engineering is not right for agriculture; and urges consumers to participate in the movement to restore agriculture to its ecological roots.

Seed poems

1991
A collection of poems for young readers about seeds.

Flowers and seeds

2006
Presents a study of flowers and seeds, and describes why plants have flowers, how and why they attract insects and birds, and how the seeds travel to other plants.

Which comes first?

1994
Describes the stages of development as a broad bean seed grows into a plant; then poses the question: which comes first, the plant or the seed?.

Little seeds

2012
Simple rhyming text follows a child who plants flower seeds in a garden and loves to watch them grow.

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