Soil

How do bacteria help make soil? How many types of earthworm are there? Why are African soil particles found in Brazil. D... (more)

How do bacteria help make soil? How many types of earthworm are there? Why are African soil particles found in Brazil. Dig into the world of soil! This book helps you understand exactly what soil is and how it forms. It explains the different types of soil found around the world, and investigates how to identify soils. It also highlights the properties of different soils, and how soil can be useful to us. What's inside? diagrams to help you understand soil, examples of soil from around the world, things you never knew about soil, tips to find websites that will help with homework. (less)

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces soil to young read... (more)

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces soil to young readers through leveled text and related photos"-- (less)

"In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to div... (more)

"In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it"-- (less)

Serpentwithfeet is an avant-garde vocalist and performance artist whose growing body of work is rooted in dueling obsess... (more)

Serpentwithfeet is an avant-garde vocalist and performance artist whose growing body of work is rooted in dueling obsessions with the ephemeral and the everlasting. (less)