Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Ten-year-old Emmy Blue learns the true meaning of friendship--and how to quilt--while making a harrowing wagon journey from Illinois to Colorado with her family in the 1860s.

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark. A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks… A first meeting. Long-time friends. Bitter exes. And maybe the...

Woolly the sheep roams the night when he is unable to sleep. He strolls in the meadow, picks apples, chases butterflies, draws pictures and cooks peas for supper. Finally he sleeps.

One by one, as they walk down the road, seven little rabbits get tired and find a place to sleep.

Mother Bear coaxes Little Bear to sleep by taking one final walk through the snow to see other creatures preparing for bedtime.

When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California. A junior college dropout, 19-year-old Eddie is trying to support himself in this story set in the barrio of Fresno, California. Annotation. For Eddie there isn't much to do in his rundown neighborhood but eat, sleep, watch out for drive-bys, and just try to get through each...

Daisy the dog likes to look at things but her little brother, Digger, explores every smell as they walk to the park for a picnic, but after sniffing a hole his nose fills with dirt, leaving him unprepared for the skunk they meet on the way home.

Follows a dog as he naps his way through the day, squeezing in time for walks, food, and play-time with his best friend.

Explores the human body through illustrations and photographs, including how our bodies are organized, the role DNA plays in our makeup, how the brain and nervous system conrol our movements, why we have dreams and memories, and how we sense the world around us..

It's time for a nap but, just like stubborn toddlers everywhere, Annalise Devin McFleece won't have anything to do with bedtime. Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing her around the park in her stroller. Along the way, they pass a man sitting on a bench, dog walkers walking dogs, a boy on a skateboard, kids playing ball, a girl practicing her juggling, and others. Each of them thinks that taking a nap is a great idea and if Annalise Devin McFleece...