Frank Carlson Library

Text and photographs describe the life cycle of a tomato, including how tomatoes grow on vines.

Text and photographs describes the life cycle of lettuce, including how it grows on the ground.

"A lesson in not being lazy"--Page 4 of cover.

"Ms. LaGrange is leaving, and that means there's a new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School. But when Ms. Hall makes it her mission to get A.J. and the gang to eat more veggies, they form a club to protest. Will Ms. Hall be able to lure them over to the veggie side? Or will their resistance be a piece of cake?"--P. [4] of cover.

Bear has lots of money and lots of land -- and he's lazy. Hare has nothing but a hungry family -- and he's smart. Hare is sure there's a way to share Bear's wealth, so he and Mrs. Hare cook up a plan. Then Hare hops on down the road to Bear's place and proposes that Bear donate land. Hare handles labor, and they split the crop in half. All Bear has to do is choose the half he wants -- tops or bottoms. Sleepy Bear takes tops but finds once the harvest...

Every year the fourth grade has to do a plan and complete a service project for the school and community, and after a particularly unappetizing school lunch Finley suggests that they should plant a vegetable garden--but when the radishes she and her friends Henry and Olivia plant take too long to sprout she gets very frustrated.

"Sam the Man is not a vegetable man. But when a school project has him paired up with the worst of all the vegetables -- the rutabaga-- he soon will learn that it's not half bad. And as he grows fond of his new little friend, Sam the Man will have to come up with plan on how to keep him happy before he rots!"--

Brian Cleary's zany rhyming text introduces young readers to foods in the vegetables group, including sweet pototoes, cauliflower, and spinach. Cleary also introduces the health benefits of these foods and provides information on how many servings of vegetables the USDA recommends.

"Provides basic introductions to what foods go into a salad, different kinds of salads, and why they are good to eat."--Provided by publisher.

When eight bunnies set out to make some stew, an accident forces a change of plans.