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Apples are one of the most iconic fruits of fall, becoming the centerpieces of pies and scents as the weather gets colder. Like many other fruits, apples grow on trees and are harvested to be sold at supermarkets and farmers’ markets worldwide. Green, pink, red, or yellow, apples come in various shapes, sizes, colors, and flavors. This book list includes titles for children that detail the science behind apples: how they grow, how they are harvested, and how to cook with them. The next time readers enjoy a mug of hot apple cider, they will know more details about the process each apple went through to make their delicious drink.
Contributed by: Mary Lanni

	Apples By: Gail Gibbons Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown.
	Apples A to Z By: Margaret McNamara Illustrated by: Jake Parker Fox, Bear, and their friends lead young readers through an apple alphabet—from apple buds and blossoms, through nutrition and orchards, to the X on an apple pie. Along the way, apple lovers will pick up a windfall of apple science and lore, as well as fun facts and child-friendly information. And twenty-six apple varieties are introduced, even ones for X, Y, and Z
	Apples and Butterflies By: Shauntay Grant Illustrated by: Tamara Thiébaux-Heikalo A rhythmic poem describes the sights and sounds of Prince Edward Island in autumn.
	Apples in Fall By: Mari C. Schuh Visit an apple orchard and learn how apples grow, how cider is made, and what foods we make with apples. Color photos and easy-to-read text tell about this favorite treat in the season of fall.
	An Apple Tree’s Life Cycle By: Mary R. Dunn The process of a new life starting is fascinating! Watch an apple tree grow from a seed to a fruit-bearing tree. Young readers will learn about the stages in an apple tree’s life, as well as its appearance. The life cycle of an apple tree is a beautiful thing to see!
	Apple Trees and the Seasons By: Julie K. Lundgren Presents the seasons through the ways apple trees grow and change over a year.
	Blossom to Apple By: Sarah Ridley Apples are a tasty food, but do you know where they come from and how they end up on supermarket shelves? Follow the story of an apple from the first pink buds on an apple tree, through the farming process to packing houses and eventually to your fruit bowl! Large, attractive photographs accompany the simple text.
	How do Apples Grow? By: Jill McDonald Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms (“Apple seeds start to grow when they are planted in soil and given sunlight, water, and fresh air”) and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! is a perfect way to bring science, nature, and culture into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops.
	Let’s Cook with Apples!: Delicious & Fun Apple Dishes Kids Can Make By: Nancy Tuminelly Make cooking super simple with these Super Simple Recipes. This book features a delicious main ingredient kids will love—apples! With step-by-step instructions on how to make easy and tasty recipes like crispy apple chips and sassy apple salsa, young cooks will jump at the chance to prepare their favorite food in new ways. Includes measuring guides and tools and ingredients lists to help enhance early learning.
	Secrets of the Apple Tree By: Carron Brown Illustrated by: Alyssa Nassner Who lives around the apple tree? Shine a light behind the page and see … Explore a tree up close and you will find a small world filled with great surprises! From worms wriggling among the roots to birds nesting high in the branches, the hidden wonders of this amazing habitat are revealed.
	Turning Apples into Applesauce By: Wendy A. Reynolds Learn how apples on trees transform into applesauce in this book for emerging readers.
	Watch Apple Trees Grow/Mira como crece el manzano! By: Mary Ann Hoffman Briefly introduces the life cycle of the apple, from planting a seed through harvesting and selling the fruit. Bilingual text.

Teenagers are becoming ever more capable in the kitchen and ever more independent in their lives. The teen years are the perfect time to cultivate not only an understanding of healthy eating habits but also the skills and knowledge required to accomplish those goals both in their family home and out on their own. This book list includes cookbooks, books about healthy eating, and one about eating disorders.
Contributed by: Mary Lanni

	30 Healthy Things to Cook and Eat By: Rebecca Gilpin Provides tasty recipes for healthy things to make and eat.
	Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs By: Rozanne Gold Step-by-step instructions and cooking tips are compiled in this cookbook for teens that features more than 80 recipes for healthy, tasty meals, treats, and desserts.
	Eating Disorders Information for Teens: health tips about anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and other eating disorders including information about risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, health consequences, and other related issues By: Sandra Augustyn Lawton Provides basic consumer health information for teens about causes, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders, along with healthy eating tips. Includes index, resource information and recommendations for further reading.
	Eating Mindfully for Teens: a workbook to help you make healthy choices, end emotional eating, and feel great By: Susan Albers Turn mindless eating habits into mindful eating habits! In this breakthrough workbook, Susan Albers–author of Eating Mindfully and the New York Times bestseller, Eat Q–offers powerful mindfulness-based activities and skills to help you stop overeating.
	Eating Out: How to Order in Restaurants By: Kim Etingoff Nutrition can be complicated. How do you know what foods are healthy and what aren’t? How much should you eat? How do you pick what to eat when you’re looking at a menu in a restaurant? Learn how to enjoy eating out while eating healthy. Discover which kinds of restaurants are the healthiest, what to order off the menu, and how to figure out which foods will keep you strong and happy.
	Food and You: a Guide to Healthy Habits for Teens By: Marjolijn Bijlefeld and Sharon K. Zoumbaris Discusses the fundamentals of good nutrition, explains how to make healthy food choices, and details the role of exercise in achieving optimum health.
	Going Vegetarian By: Dana Meachen Rau Describes the benefits, challenges, and steps to switching to a vegetarian diet.
	Healthy Weight for Teens By: Carla Mooney Each title in this series delves into some of the hottest nutrition and health topics being discussed today. The series also provides readers with tools for evaluating conflicting and ever-changing ideas about nutrition and health.
	Living on Your Own By: Leanne Currie-McGhee Moving into one’s own place is a major step to independence. This book covers budgeting, saving, and healthy eating while living independently. Real-world examples, relevant facts, and fully documented quotes from teens and experts bring concepts to life.
	The Smart Student’s Guide to Healthy Living: how to survive stress, late nights, & the college cafeteria By: M.J. Smith and Fred Smith Welcome to college life. It’s full of possibilities — and pitfalls. Cafeteria food is awful, but there sure is a lot of it. And you can eat as much (or more) of anything — and everything — as you want. And in a single year of study, you can grow a gut that will haunt you for the rest of your life. No one in the dorm is going to tell you when to go to bed, and you can wear each all-night cram session like a badge of honor. But on two hours of sleep a night, the circles under your eyes will make you look like a raccoon before midterms — which you’ll then probably fail. And exercise — what’s that? Say hello to thunder thighs and saggy bat-wing arms. Sound awful? Good. It’s supposed to. But take heart: With the simple advice you’ll find in this book, you can eat right and get the sleep and exercise you need to excel academically and creatively. You’ll get the straight story on how to avoid the freshman fifteen and learn how to make good choices in the cafeteria and make smart snacks on those few useless appliances they allow you to keep in your room. You’ll get tips on fitting regular exercise into a busy class schedule and getting enough sleep without being the only one who never makes it to the latest of the late-night parties.
	The Usborne Healthy Cookbook By: Fiona Patchett Discusses the importance of healthy eating and presents such simple and nutritious recipes as herby falafels, lamb kebabs, and carrot cupcakes.

After a long stressful school year, children can use something fun. Doing something you like is a mood booster and hobbies are just that! Whether you are into indoor or outdoor hobbies, want to learn a new hobby or increase your skills in a current hobby, our reading list provides plenty of hobbies to choose from. Books in this list are geared towards ages 8 through 13.

	The Art of LEGO Design By: Jordan Schwartz The Art of LEGO Design explores LEGO as an artistic medium, revealing rarely-known and creative ways to build impressive models with LEGO.
	Making Books with Kids By: Esther Smith Making Books with Kids features more than 25 creative, kid-friendly projects in design, illustration, paper decorating, binding techniques and more. Book artist and author Esther K. Smith offers an exciting resource of easy-to-follow instructions supported throughout with step-by-step, full-color photographs and illustrations. Each sequence is accompanied by finished samples and variations as well as the inspiring work of a prominent book artist.
	Paint it: the art of acrylics, oils, pastels, and watercolors By: Mari Bolte Step-by-step guides show how to create a variety of projects using acrylics, oils, watercolors, and pastels.
	Trash to Treasure: fun, easy projects with paper, plastic, glass & ceramics, fabric, metal, and odds & ends By: Pam Scheunemann With easy step-by-step instructions, this book will help kids get creative and recycle and repurpose their trash into handmade treasures. All projects feature common everyday items to reuse in a fun new way along with step-by-step instructions and photos.
	Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun By: Joshua Glenn Activities parents will remember from their childhoods are presented alongside bold new possibilities: science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn bombing, stop-action movie-making – plus tons of trivia, best-of lists, and forward-thinking ideas made accessible to kids.
	Starting a Sport By: Harold T. Rober A simple guide for the different sports available to kids, explaining what equipment, if any, is required for each sport, what safety gear must be worn, and the special skills needed. A good start to guide children in learning about a sport before they start playing it.
	Photography for kids!: a fun guide to digital photography By: Michael Ebert Keys to capturing exciting images range from advice on how to take photos of small things such as insects to self-portraits and pictures that can be taken on any trip. Kid-friendly instructions and photo shoot ideas make this a fine basic guide that displays the basics of what makes a photo composition great.
	Cooking Skills By: Stephanie Turnbull Describes basic cooking skills and techniques, along with several easy recipes from around the world. Includes glossary, tips and tricks, and information on cooking careers.
	Cakes By: Laura and Jess Tilli Each of the five sections in this book focuses on a different type of cake or skill with cake making. The table of contents provides difficulty ratings and symbols that show children when they will need adult help and each recipe has a delicious picture of the actual cake along with an ingredient and equipment list. Drawn illustrations of exactly how to do each step accompany the written directions below the picture.
	Crocheting By: Gwen Blakley Kinsler Demonstrates the techniques of basic crochet, and uses step-by-step illustrated instructions to create six different projects.
	Bewitching Bead &Wire Jewelry By: Suzanne Tourtillott These 40 fun projects–rings, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, cuffs–will inspire wire workers, beaders, and all types of creative crafters.
	Garden to Table By: Katherine Hengel Presents six common garden vegetables that are easy to grow and explains how to give them their perfect conditions, whether inside or outside. Accompanied by clear, colorful photographs, the instructions for growing, harvesting, and cooking the food is perfectly suited to young readers.
	Yoga By: Sarah Tieck This Move Your Body book is a fast, clear read for young people. Chapters include types of yoga, how to engage in yoga safely, and how yoga contributes to good health.
	How to Play Guitar in 10 Easy Lessons By: Dan Holton Presents a guide to playing the guitar for young readers, explaining how to hold a pick, find each chord, and improvise.
	Learn to Speak Music: a guide to creating, performing, & promoting your songs By: John Crossingham A guide to help young readers learn music by revealing every nook and cranny of how it’s made. Rather than just a guide to instruments and theory, it explores every aspect of the pop music world, from songwriting and artwork to promotion and setting up a practice space. Special features include: insider’s advice on choosing and buying an instrument, finding the right bandmates, setting up gigs, overcoming stage fright, emulating high-priced studio techniques at home, and much more.
	So You Want to be a Comic Book Artist? By: Philip Amara Amara starts with the practical basic panels, gutters, and balloons before explaining what you’ll need for a home studio, including the gear to get started. Includes comics’ creator interviews, which are filled with extremely specific tips about influences, writing tools, and jobs. Includes similar profiles of young amateur artists.
	1-2-3 Calligraphy!: letters and projects for beginners and beyond By: Eleanor Winters Teaches beginners how to do calligraphy by shaping letters from traditional and modern alphabets and also includes other projects.
	Light Your Way: make a candle By: Carla Mooney Explores the history and science of candle making. Includes step-by-step instructions for making beeswax and milk carton candles. Other topics include decorating candles and candle safety.
	Coding Projects in Scratch By: Jon Woodcock You can learn to create mind-bending illusions, crazy animations, and interactive artworks with this collection of Scratch projects! Woodcock shows you simple steps to becoming an expert coder, and helps you improve your coding skills so you can share games online.
	Magic Skills By: Stephanie Turnbull Describes the types of skills needed to do simple magic tricks, and how to train and practice to become a famous magician. Includes instructions for preparing props and tips for making the tricks and illusions work the best. Readers learn card tricks, number tricks, science tricks, and more.
	How to Play Chess By: Daniel King Whether you’re a complete beginner or a more experienced player looking to improve your game, this step-by-step guide will help you play like a champion. Plan your moves with amazing 3-D illustrations. Discover tactics and strategies that will add firepower to your attack and strengthen your defense. Learn tips and techniques to improve your skills and solve the toughest of chess challenges. Includes practice chessboard and press-out pieces, so you can play as you learn.