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Bike to Books 2022 3rd to 6th grade first-place winner: Mushrooms and Why They Matter -- from Multcolib

During May, Multnomah County Library and the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation celebrate National Bike Month with the Bike to Books design contest. Poppy’s winning design will be installed on a street near Hollywood Library by PBOT striping crews. If you like Poppy’s Mushrooms and Why They Matter, you might like these titles too. -Alison K.

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11 items

  • Did you know that the “largest known living organism on Earth” is a mushroom -producing fungus growing in a forest in eastern Oregon? The book explores the mysterious and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms through lyrical text and…
    BookAnn Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2022] — j Facts 579.6 Z74m 2018
  • Eleven-year-old Barclay longs for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2021] — j FOODY 2021
  • Coop is the only human kid at the Dungeoneer Academy, a school for explorers of a place full of monsters, mazes and danger. He and his team must prove their survival skills in a treacherous obstacle course.
    BookNew York : Aladdin, 2022. — j COSTA 2022
  • Rosie the truffle hound tries to solve her problem of not being able to safely eat the delicious chocolate truffles her family sells.
    BookNew York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2021] — jE HARTLAND 2021
  • From fun facts about fairy circles to the delicious secret behind pizza, this book is the perfect read for young scientists.
    BookSeattle, WA : Innovation Press, [2019] — j Facts 579.5 K2928f 2019
  • When 13-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a 14-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting -- and failing -- is part of life.
    BookNew York : Random House, [2018] — j HOLM 2018
  • The author takes an up-close and personal look at one of her family's most beloved pastimes: mushroom hunting!
    Graphic Novel[Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2018. — j Facts 579.6 GRAVEL 2018
  • Presents information about the diverse types of fungi, offering general information as well as the often strange world of individual species and the effects that they have on plants, animals, the environment, weather, soil and people.
    BookNew York, NY : DK Publishing, 2021. — j 579.5 B6663h 2021