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Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hearing a strange noise as he settles in for bedtime, Owl looks everywhere, from the cupboard to beneath the floorboards, for the source of the noise before spotting a tiny, squeaky, mouse-shaped detail.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet, and what are the benefits of decluttering our sonic world.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book, an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experience and discussing the observations of poets,...
6) The noise
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse ..."--
7) Leyla
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
"Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...
9) Noise
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A man loves his neighborhood in New York City, but can't stand the noise around him. He becomes a vigilante and goes after everyone from the next door neighbor to the mayor in order to get some peace and quiet
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear
13) The loud book!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the blare of an alarm clock in the morning to snores and crickets in the evening, simple text explores the many loud noises one might hear during the course of a day.
14) Home
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Français
Description
A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel, and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment
16) Stop that noise!
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three children who love to make music in inappropriate places are organized by their teacher into a band to perform at their school's open house
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Little Book of Noises gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, as well as containing pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, from the meditative resonance of a temple bell to the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things "auraculous," or "ear marvelous." Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant...
18) Moose music
Author
Publisher
Artists & Writers Guild Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
No one appreciates the noise Moose makes when he plays his fiddle--until a lady moose hears him
20) Wake the dead
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although he has been warned that he will wake the dead, Henry continues to make too much noise until the warning comes true, and then he must find a way to help the dead rest in peace again
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