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Environmental Awareness & Literature
Anyone have any favorite literature with nature themes?
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A few of my favorite titles
"Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
"Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
"The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
"Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
Some Tweeps Tweeted These:
@TheRebull: "Gentle Ben" & "Hatchet"
@DrGarcia: "Princess Mononoke"by Hayao Miyazaki
@kstewart01: "Ishmael", "Education of Little Tree", and "Into the Wild
LA teacher in Tucson AZ
Connected Wisdom
Favorite literature with nature themes
I always loved "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein.
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