Hirsch, Rebecca E.
Summary: Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy. But numbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Diseases, pesticides, climate change, and loss of habitat are all threatening bee populations. Some bee species are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 595.79 HIRWilson, Joseph S.
Summary: This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 WILRzezak, Joanna
Summary: Mr Busby the beekeeper is the proud owner of hundreds of hives. Have a look inside them to find out how bees take care of their queen and make honey, then follow the swarm as they fly off into the countryside to collect nectar. Readers will learn about pollination and all the plants, insects, animals and birds that take part in the process; they will also find out the amazing ways bees are so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Ltd 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 RZECaprioli, Claire
Summary: "Swarm, kaleidoscope, fluffle, pack... It is time to celebrate groups of spring animals! What do you call a group of bees? A swarm! Discover why this interesting insect lives in groups, where they live, and what they eat. With amazing photos and lively text, this book takes you inside a beehive, explains what a beekeeper does, and teaches you what you can do to help conserve and protect bees....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J595.79 CAPSmith, Brian
Summary: With their friendship on the line after a huge fight, Pea and Bee search for new friends, while Jay takes matters into his own wings to bring them all back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMIUnstead, Sue
Summary: "Read about the busy, buzzy life of bees! Discover what makes bees special and why these insects are so important to flowers, people, and more." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 UNSBarton, Bethany
Summary: "An enthusiastic bee-loving narrator tries to convince a bee-phobic friend that our fuzzy, flying neighbors are our friends--we should all give bees a chance!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: "Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous quips, lists, and musings, OMFG, BEES! will show you just how important these esteemed bee-list celebrities really are. (Hint: We can't live without them.)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 KRAGenhart, Michael
Summary: It's time to prepare for the school Spanish spelling bee, and Manolo is determined to take home the grand prize. Naturally, he turns to his loving abuela for help and together they spell the words: H-e-r-m-o-s-o. Beautiful. O-r-g-u-l-l-o-s-o. Proud. F-u-e-r-t-e. Strong. While they practice, Abuela shares stories of when she was a little girl. Back then, students were not permitted to speak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENBernstrom, Daniel
Summary: "A hungry bear? An angry bee? Only one will taste sweet victory! Who will it be?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hippo Park 2022
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Summary: "When Pea, Bee, & Jay hear stories of Gramp's youth, they find each yarn to be wilder than the last. He once had a pet dog, was a professional wrestling champ, and even led a jailbreak out of a can of peas...But when Gramps goes missing, it's up to the trio to bring him home."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMIKetchum, Liza
Summary: "Looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, this book helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 KETMatheson, Christie
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to uncover the rainbow of colors hidden in a garden, which helps flowers bloom and bees find food. Includes facts about bees and their importance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Stow your pesticides and learn how to foster a beautiful, healthy garden that attracts bees, butterflies, birds, and other pollinators. Hays explains the synergy between plants and pollinators. She helps you make the right choices for plant selection, nutrients, growing practices and so much more. You will improve your garden-- and the lives of whose who spend time in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2016
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Summary: "You might have heard the words 'busy as a bee.' But what do bees do each day? Did you know bees... clean their rooms, help feed baby bees, and build the honeycomb they live in? From birth to first flight and beyond, discover all that goes into being a bee!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COXCammuso, Frank
Summary: Salem Hyde just isn't like other kids. For one thing, she's stubborn, independent, and impulsive. For another, she's a witch. Salem acts first and thinks later - which means most of her thinking involves coming up with excuses! Good thing she's been assigned an animal commpanion, Lord Percival J. Whamsford III. This over-anxious cat doesn't like Salem calling him Whammy, and Salem doesn't like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2013
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Summary: Dandy is already worried about the fifth grade spelling bee, because his family has a history of winning--and once it starts, things keep going wrong, and his best friend Malcolm realizes that the contest is being haunted and the boys need to find out why and banish the specter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ENDMilner, Charlotte
Summary: DK's The Bee Book is a wonderful introduction to the humble honeybee: nature's hardest worker, and much more than just a provider of honey! Bees are incredibly industrious, brilliant at building, super social, and--most importantly--responsible for a third of every mouthful of food you eat! Find out how bees talk to one another, what it takes to become a queen bee, what the life of a worker bee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 MILKatschke, Judy.
Summary: Charlie Brown faces another disaster at school when he enters the spelling bee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KATShannon, David
Summary: Mizz Lizzie is the busiest bee in town, and she is determined to win the school spelling contest--but after studying all night she falls asleep during the contest, and when she finally wakes up she realizes that she has to learn to stop and smell the flowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHASmith, Brian
Summary: "After Jay is bullied by Pumpkin, three besties Pea, Bee and Jay band together to prove that being big doesn't mean you get to push others around and, discovering Pumpkin has some extra-large issues of her own, must get to the root of the problem"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMITrue, Margo.
Summary: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 TRUJackson, Tom
Summary: Honey bees, bumblebees, mining bees, dwarf bees, carpenter, leafcutter, and mason bees: bees come in many different types, with more than 16,000 species worldwide. The bees we are most familiar with, bumblebees and honey bees, live in colonies and play a major role in pollinating the crops, plants, and flowers around us. And bees produce honey, reputedly the food of the gods—a function of bees'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amber Books 2021