TY - BOOK AU - Patent,Dorothy Hinshaw AU - Munoz,William TI - Prairies SN - 0823412776 AV - QH87.7 .P38 1996 U1 - 577.4 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Holiday House KW - Prairies KW - United States KW - Juvenile literature KW - Prairie ecology KW - Prairie conservation KW - Ecology KW - sears N1 - Includes index; Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Horn Book; Kirkus Reviews; School Library Journal; 3; K-4 N2 - Describes the characteristics of the North American prairie, the plants and animals found there, and the efforts made to preserve and restore the landscape that once stretched unbroken from southern Canada into northernmost Mexico ER -