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1) Handy Dad In The Great Outdoors: More Than 30 Super-cool Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids
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Trade in screen time for fresh air and family fun with adventures and experiments from the host of HGTV's Room Crashers.
Slacklining, edible bugs, tarp surfing, and more! In this awesome follow-up to the hugely popular Handy Dad, extreme sports athlete and TV host Todd Davis gathers more than thirty projects and activities sure to get kids outside and entertained for hours. With easy-to-follow instructions, helpful photographs, and...
Slacklining, edible bugs, tarp surfing, and more! In this awesome follow-up to the hugely popular Handy Dad, extreme sports athlete and TV host Todd Davis gathers more than thirty projects and activities sure to get kids outside and entertained for hours. With easy-to-follow instructions, helpful photographs, and...
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The cast iron Dutch oven is the one cooking pot that does it all: bakes bread, steams vegetables, boils seafood, fries eggs, stews wild game, and broils meat. Whether it is outdoors or on the home fireplace hearth, the Dutch oven produces great-tasting food with a small amount of effort and a lot of fun.
Author J. Wayne Fears brings this ancient and effective cooking pot into the twenty-first century. In addition to the care and cleaning of ovens...
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"Cool Outdoor Activities makes the great outdoors fun and exciting. Make a marvelous mini kite or bury a time capsule. Create a giant tic-tac-toe board or a twist-it game in the grass. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity. Plus, it's written just for kids! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
5) Go hiking!
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"Lace up your hiking boots and grab your walking stick. It's time to go hiking! Follow along with Rory Raccoon as you learn all about what to wear, the gear to grab, and how to stay safe on the trails as you explore hiking in the great outdoors"--
8) Go canoeing!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Get out on the water and enjoy the sights and sounds of the great outdoors! Readers will learn all about planning, paddling, and the gear they need to take a canoe trip. They'll learn about safety and caring for the environment while enjoying an outdoor canoeing adventure!"--Provided by publisher.
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University Press of Kansas
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Mike Blair has spent a lifetime outdoors, venturing beyond fences to closely observe "natural things" while recording his observations in both words and images. In this sumptuous book he presents some of those observations as the cycle of a year, beginning with a hike through January's deep snowdrifts that "gets you down to business" only to later encounter the white driftings of summer as cottonwood seeds take to the air.
10) Go paddling!
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"What's better than a day out on the lake? Grab a paddle, your life jacket and your favorite kayak or canoe. Then, follow along with Rory Racoon as you learn all about padding in the great outdoors"--
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Firefly Books
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2016.
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Let them go outside and play! More parents are heeding the advice of specialists who urge them to do just that. By playing outside with friends, kids learn valuable interpersonal and negotiation skills and how to make decisions. Outdoor play teaches about the natural world, fosters creativity, and encourages physical activity.
101 Things For Kids To Do Outside is ideal for parents, teachers, and all those working with youth. This book is ideal for...
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America's Test Kitchen
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[2016]
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"Part field guide to grilling and barbecuing and part cookbook, Master of the Grill features a wide variety of kitchen-tested recipes for meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, pizza, and more. These are the recipes everyone should know how to make--the juiciest burgers, barbecue chicken that's moist not tough, tender grill-smoked pork ribs, the greatest steak (and grilled potatoes to serve alongside). Regional specialties are included, too--learn how...
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"Don't just survive, thrive in the great outdoors! This handy guidebook provides unique tips and tricks to transform any camping trip into a glamping vacay, including defense against weather extremes, hygiene hacks, and unplugged entertainment options"--Provided by publisher.
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Often compared to Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain, Patrick F. McManus maintains just the right balance between baffled innocence and conspiratorial confidence. Since 1979, this humorist has been delighting readers with hilarious stories recounting his childhood in rural Idaho and relating his misadventures in the great outdoors. Whether you're a sportsman or a couch potato, he will have you laughing out loud at his escapades. In this collection of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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"Cool Outdoor Arts & Crafts makes the great outdoors fun and exciting. Craft a sun-printed scarf or paint a pair of rocks. Make a terra-cotta wind chime or a beaded garden stake. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity. Plus, it's written just for kids! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
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Cool Parks & Trails makes the great outdoors fun and exciting. Make a magnificent walking stick or play a game of hiking bingo. Create a no-hands water holder or a bike helmet mohawk. This book is full of easy-to-follow steps and bright photography for every activity. Plus, it's written just for kids! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Patrick McManus’ national best-seller, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, is a collection of hilarious short pieces about fishing, its exotic equipment, and activities like “gunkholing.”
You will learn, for example, that the best way to learn to fish is to build an addition to your house first. It should be big enough to hold all the nifty fishing equipment you will cart home from sporting goods stores and garage sales.
McManus cheerfully guides...
20) Heartbreaker
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While vacationing in Utah’s mountain wilderness, Lynn Nelson suddenly finds herself having to deal with her teenage daughter Rory’s raging hormones. The object of Rory’s passion is their guide, drop-dead gorgeous Jess Feldman, a man the divorced Lynn instinctively distrusts, even as she shields herself from his blazing baby blues. But after Lynn and Rory fall off a cliff of sheared rock, Jess becomes their only hope. Risking his...
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