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"For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
2) White blood
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Riding out World War I in his family home near Smolensk, naturalist Charlie Doig finds himself trapped during a snowstorm by a motley group of aristocrats, servants, and soldiers, one of whom may be a Bolshevik out to destroy them all.
5) Earthly joys
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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An advisor to King James I, Sir Robert Cecil relies on the practical advice of John Tradescant, a gardener, who becomes an eyewitness to the historical events that are shaping a turbulent England on the brink of civil war.
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Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 3
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Calpurnia and her grandfather rescue a barn owl from the river and, with the help of Dr. Pritzker, dead mice, and some detective work, nurse it back to health.
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Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 2
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
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2009.
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
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Morrow
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition. Hoping to find the mythical butterfly that will make his name and immortalise that of his wife, Sophiefor if he finds it, he will call it the "Papilio Sophia"he eagerly accepts the invitation, and embarks on a journey that will take him to a whole new world. On his return,...
11) Skunked
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Calpurnia Tate girl vet volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"When Travis discovers an abandoned baby skunk, he can't help but bring it home and take care of it. Stinky, as Travis names him, settles in pretty well. But when Travis discovers Stinky's litter-mate, Winky, who is in need of some help, things get complicated around the Tate house"--
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