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Nature
The Trail Book
by Mary Hunter Austin
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Peter Parley’s Wonders of Sea & Sky
DjVu text from Internet Archive
Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
Young Folks’ Library, Volume XI (of 20)
Holden, Edward Singleton
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A Book of Natural History
Young Folks’ Library, Volume XIV (of 20)
Jordan, David Starr
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Let’s Collect Rocks and Shells
by Shell Union Oil Corporation
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Within the Deep
by R. Cadwallader Smith
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The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
The Seven Little Sisters who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air
Multiple Formats at Black Mask
by Jane Andrews
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Appropriate for 1st to 3rd grade
Wilderness Ways
by William Joseph Long
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The Elements of Geology
by William Harmon Norton
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7th to 10th grade
The Student’s Elements of Geology
by Sir Charles Lyell
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10th to 12th Grade
Madam How and Lady Why
by Charles Kingsley
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Geology for beginners; Grammar Grades
Multiple Formats at Black Mask
Town Geology
by Charles Kingsley
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Nature Near London
by Richard Jefferies
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Woodside, Or Look, Listen And Learn
by Caroline Hadley
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John Muir
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
Plants
Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I, from Seed to Leaf
For the Use of Teachers, or Mothers Studying with their Children
by Jane H. Newell
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The School Book of Forestry
by Charles Lathrop Pack
Studies of Trees
Jacob Joshua Levinson
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the HTML version has illustrations, great reference
Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting
by F. P. Rockwell
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The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots
by Sutton and Sons
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Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
by L. H. Bailey
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Wild Flowers
An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
by Neltje Blanchan
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Wildflowers of the Farm
by Arthur Owens Cooke
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Insectivorous Plants
by Charles Darwin
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Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers
by John Wood
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Insects
The Insect Folk
by Margaret Warner Morley
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K-2
The History of Insects
by Unknown
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appropriate for 1st to 4th grade
The Life of the fly;
with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
Wonders of Instinct,
The Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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by Jean-Henri Fabre
The Life of the Bee
by Maurice Maeterlinck
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The Life-Story of Insects
by Geo. H. Carpenter
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Birds
Child’s Book of Water Birds
by Anonymous
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Burgess Bird Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
Bird Neighbors
by Neltje Blanchan
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Citizen Bird
Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
by Elliott Coues and Mabel Osgood Wright
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Animals
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals, A Book of Personal Observations
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
by William T. Hornaday
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Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
by John Burroughs
Baldwin Text
True Stories about Dogs and Cats
by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
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Concerning Cats
by Helen M. Winslow
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Dogs and All About Them
by Robert Leighton
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Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits
by Bingley
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Thorton Burgess
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
The Adventures of Unc’ Billy Possum
Mother West Wind ‘Why’ Stories
Mother West Wind “Where” Stories
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse
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1st to 4th grade level, read aloud to younger children, allow older children to read for themselves
Among the People
Among the Night People
by Clara Dillingham Pierson
Baldwin Project HTML
Read aloud to grades K to 3
Astronomy
History of Astronomy
by George Forbes
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Recreations in Astronomy
With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work
by Henry White Warren
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Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
by Simon Newcomb
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Great Astronomers
by Sir Robert S. Ball
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Curiosities of the Sky
by Garrett P. Serviss
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General Science
General Science
by Bertha M. Clark
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Great Inventors & Their Inventions
by Frank P. Bachman
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War Inventions
by Charles R. Gibson
Baldwin Project
Stories of Inventors
by Russell Doubleday
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A Catechism of Familiar Things
by Anonymous
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ABC’s of Science
by Charles A. Oliver
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Chambers’s Elementary Science Readers
by Various
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The Fairy-Land of Science
by Arabella B. Buckley
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3rd to 6th grade reading level
The Story Book of Science
by Jean Henri Fabre
Baldwin Project
3rd to 5th grade reading level
The Scientific American Boy
by A. Russell Bond
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History of Science,
by Williams and Williams
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
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Start in High School; read 1 volume each year
USGS Publications
Earthquake Science Explained — A Series of Ten Short Articles for Students, Teachers, and Families
Compiled by Matthew A. d’Alessio
USGS Publication
The Life Cycle of a Mineral Deposit — A Teacher’s Guide for Hands-On Mineral Education Activities
By Dave Frank, John Galloway, and Ken Assmus
USGS Publication
Deserts, Geology and Resources
by A. S. Walker
USGS Publication
The Southern Appalachians: A Changing World, Teacher’s Guide
Birth of the Mountains, Companion Guide
USGS Publications
Volcanoes
Robert I. Tilling
USGS Publication
Other
The Story of a Piece of Coal
by Edward A. Martin
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The Chemical History of a Candle
by Michael Faraday
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The Story of Germ Life
by H. W. Conn
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Flying Machines: construction and operation;
a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text,
how to build and navigate the modern airship
by Octave Chanute; William James Jackman; Thomas Herbert Russel
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Marvels of Modern Science
by Paul Severing
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A Practical Physiology
by Albert F. Blaisdell
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Highschool Level
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
by A.M. and Francis M. Walters
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Highschool Level
An Introduction to Chemical Science
by Rufus Phillips Williams
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Highschool Level
Hygienic Physiology:
with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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The New Physics and Its Evolution
by Lucien Poincare
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11th to 12th grade level
The Mechanical Universe
Physics for Seniors or Freshmen in College
Caltech
Relativity: the Special and General Theory
Sidelights on Relativity
Albert Einstein
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The History of the Telephone
by Herbert Newton Casson
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The Story of Electricity
by John Munro
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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
by Edward J. Ruppelt
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