Nicole Wong
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"Each of the three seeds in this story--a cherry seed in the MIddle East, an acacia seed in Australia, and a lotus seed in Asia--survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the hardships faced by displaced children. Kids, like seeds, thrive when given a chance. Stephie's verses...
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Explores the importance of rivers to humans as sources of drinking water, transportation, and power sources, and explains how humans buried old rivers beneath city streets in an attempt to control the flow of rivers and problems they caused. Examines the damage caused by the containment of rivers, and discusses the development of daylighting, the unearthing and restoring of buried rivers to their rightful places and natural courses. Includes back...