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MEC - Home Book List Short List – Staff Picks Across the Curriculum Alabama Neighbors Big Screen Canoeing Compass Skills Connections Creepy Crawlies Down To Earth Feathers in Focus Food For Thought Forest Critters High Adventure Invention Convention Map Masters Native Americans and the Earth Night Hike Orienteering Pond and Stream Studies Refuge Rock Query Sense of Place Sensory Awareness Songs, Sparks and Stories Team Adventure/ Team Challenge Trail of Discovery Woods Walk/ Value of a Tree

Team Adventure/Team Challenge Title Type Access Author Summary Concepts Additional Info The Butter Battle Book PB E Dr. Seuss In typical Dr. Seuss style, this book presents a serious topic in a fun manner.  The Zooks and the Yooks disagree about which side to butter their bread on.  Argu-ments, escala-tion, perspec-tive   If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People PB M David Jay Smith Shrinking human population down to 100, this book provides conscious-raising statistics (20 earn less than a dollar a day, 60 are always hungry, only 7 would have a computer, etc.) and helps children understand their place in the world’s population. Diversity, appreciation, popula-tion growth International Reading Association Children’s Book Award Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns MG M Margaret Quattle-baum Team work, African American, Garden-ing http://www .random house.com /teachers /catalog /display .pperl? isbn=9780 44041066 &view=tg     Copyright © 2006 McDowell Environmental Center.  All rights reserved. Site designed by: People who love Camp!