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Shelby, Anne.
THE MAN WHO LIVED IN A HOLLOW TREE
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009
IL K-3, RL 2.9
ISBN 0689861699
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 Harlan Burch is a most unusual man.  He is a carpenter who really believes in preserving nature.  Every time he cuts down a tree to use in his work, he plants two.  When he finds a hollow tree, he decides that this would be a good place to live so he moves right in.  He is very happy here and lives on and on and on.  And then something really amazing happens.
SUBJECTS:     Carpenters -- Fiction.
                        Trees -- Fiction.
                        Ecology -- Fiction.
                        Tall tales.

 
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