Written by  Brenda Boreham.

The Western Red Cedar tree is sometimes called The Tree of Life. This book explains some of the ways that the cedar is useful to the people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Educator & Series Information
Cedar — The Tree of Life is part of the Strong Readers: Set B series. Set B is a continuation of Set A. The mixture of fiction and non-fiction books, from levels 11 through 20, expands on frog, bear, eagle, and raven, considering their full lifecycles.

The Strong Readers are a guided/leveled reading series chock full of science, numeracy, social responsibility, language arts and oral language teachings. Strong Readers are rich with scaffolded text features and have beautiful illustrations and photographs. The entire series is interconnected and follows the cultural values of frog, bear, eagle and raven throughout.

Guided Reading Level: 20