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A RIVER'S GIFTS: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn. Congrats Patricia Newman! NEW Essay on gratitude to the environment and education

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                                        A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn by Patricia Newman, shows how a river, dammed for a century, was restored by a determined community. NEW ESSAY by Patricia Newman on gratitude to the environment and children's science education.  :  https://scicomm.plos.org/2022/09/12/what-does-gratitude-have-to-do-with-the-environment/ A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn.  By Patricia Newman. Illus. by Natasha Donovan Sept. 2022. 48p. Lerner/Millbrook, $31.99 (9781541598706). Gr. 3–6. 639.90979 The Elwha River flows north through the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and is the traditional lifeblood of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, "the Strong People.” In the 1790s, Sibert Honor Book author Newman ( Sea Otter Heroes , 2017) explains, colonists came, cleared the wild plants f...