Your Backyard Is Wild

Your Backyard Is Wild
Author: Jeff Corwin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101136286

A backyard anywhere is always fun to explore! When budding naturalists Lucy and Benjamin get a chance to visit their cousin Gabe in Brooklyn, they can't wait. They are used to seeing fascinating animals and plants in the Florida Everglades where they live, but they can't imagine what they will find in Gabe's New York City backyard. The first book in Jeff Corwin's young middle-grade fiction series shows kids that no matter where you live, you can have fun discovering the plants, animals, and natural life around you.

The Bees in Your Backyard

The Bees in Your Backyard
Author: Joseph S. Wilson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0691160775

An introduction to the roughly 4000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field

Wild Your Garden

Wild Your Garden
Author: Jim and Joel Ashton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241435816

"It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved." Alan Titchmarsh Join the rewilding movement and share your outdoor space with nature. We all have the potential to make the world a little greener. Wild Your Garden, written by Jim and Joel Ashton (aka "The Butterfly Brothers"), shows you how to create a garden that can help boost local biodiversity. Transform a paved-over yard into a lush oasis, create refuges to welcome and support native species, or turn a high-maintenance lawn into a nectar-rich mini-meadow to attract bees and butterflies. You don't need specialist knowledge or acres of land. If you have any outdoor space, you can make a difference to local wildlife, and reduce your carbon footprint, too. "Wildlife gardening is one of the most important things you can do as an individual for increasing biodiversity and mitigating the effects of climate change. From digging a pond to planting a native hedge, the Butterfly Brothers can help you every step of the way." Kate Bradbury

Wild in the Backyard

Wild in the Backyard
Author: Arefa Tehsin
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2015-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9385890212

Enter the secret world of your wild pets! Ever wondered why this world’s called a rat race? Why does your teacher call you the chatter bird of the class? How did those dratted lice get in your hair? Let's find out the answers to these and more in this exciting one-of-a-kind backyard-jungle book. Wilderness and wildlife aren’t just confined to the forests; there is a whole lot of wild in our own backyards! Some of these critters are awake with you in the day. Others wake up when you go to bed... Discover the hunters and the hunted, the diggers and the tunnellers, the raptors and the roaches, roaming around under our very noses. Say hi to them and take a look at their home, which, incidentally, is also ours.

Backyard Adventure

Backyard Adventure
Author: Amanda Thomsen
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 161212920X

The backyard has long been a space associated with recreation and relaxation, a private patch of earth to escape to, and a springboard for the imagination. In her signature style and drawing on her personal experience as a mother, gardener, and author, Amanda Thomsen encourages kids to create kingdoms of their own making, right in their own backyards. With whimsical projects for every season and any setting, from forest to pavement, fun-seeking kids and their families will rediscover the yard as a place for inspired play, using repurposed materials and existing features of outdoor spaces. Whether they’re creating tiny gardens inhabited by action figures, weaving a secret hideaway out of a loom of twine and twigs, or setting sidewalk cracks on fire with Coffeemate, Backyard Adventure lets kids of all ages turn their yards into a place they can call their own.

Hack Your Backyard

Hack Your Backyard
Author: Niki Ahrens
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541557174

"Explore science in your own backyard through this wild collection of projects. Make your own compass, learn to tell the temperature from crickets, count the stars, and more"--

Wild Pitch #1

Wild Pitch #1
Author: Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101119357

In this action-packed baseball story, the Backyard Bombers, a pick-up team, go up against their biggest rivals?the Sluggin? Tigers. There?s just one problem?Joey, the Bombers? first baseman, thinks he has to be the boss to get his team to win, and the rest of the Bombers aren?t too happy about being bossed around and yelled at. Can the Backyard Bombers all come together for an edge-of-your-seat showdown against the Sluggin? Tigers?

Ravens in Winter

Ravens in Winter
Author: Bernd Heinrich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1476794561

Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1989.

The Backyard Bird Sanctuary

The Backyard Bird Sanctuary
Author: Alan Baczkiewicz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1507217269

"Attract, feed, and shelter 50 of your favorite species!"--Cover.

Wild Turkeys

Wild Turkeys
Author: Kristin Schuetz
Publisher: Blastoff! Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600149726

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