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81) Wacky weather
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the planet and beyond to introduce beginning readers to 17 strange but true weather events, among them waterspouts, dust devils, ball lightning, snow donuts, fire whirls, red sprites, sundogs, ice tsunamis, clouds shaped like UFOs and cinnamon rolls, diamond rain, metallic snow, and a storm so wide three Earths could fit INSIDE it!
82) The lost cause
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Forty years after a devastating flood changed the face of the earth, new consequences and challenges are still surfacing. Twins Will and Annalie thought the hardest part about this year was going to be their separation when bookish Annalie began life at a prestigious Admiralty-run boarding school and avid sailor Will stayed behind in the flood-damaged slums. But that was before the Admiralty raided their father's workshop. Before they sent a questioner...
Author
Series
Water City trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed 'God,' the nameless antihero who once risked everything to find Akira's killer is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the Water City Police Department, he raises his now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter. Water City's domestic bliss is threatened when...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach. On a warm March night in 2083,...
86) The last tiger
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aasha the tiger loves her beautiful forest home, full of tigers, boars, and other animals. But one day, the forest begins to change. The hot days became hotter. The wet days became wetter--so wet, in fact, that there are floods that force many of the animals to find other places to live. And then the humans enter the forest and begin taking down the trees, which forces Aasha out. Will she ever find a new place to call home? Includes back matter on...
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing, an imprint of Baker & Taylor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After Kavya and her family are flooded out of their home in Southeast Asia, they have to make the difficult decision to return and try to rebuild or move away from their native land.
Author
Series
Shelby and Watts volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
92 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Violet the bear has awoken early from her hibernation, but she doesn't know why. She's called on Shelby and Watts to solve the case before her son, Theodore, is roused from his hibernation, too. With Shelby's deductive skills and Watts's scientific know-how, they'll leave no stone unturned or question unanswered"--
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
This action-packed graphic novel follows the adventures of three inspirational superheroes to explore the issues of the climate emergency, for the individual and the planet. Beneath the Arctic ice, the Methanaur is awakening. If the deadly methane monster breaks free, it spells the end of civilization as we know it. Meet Professor Katelyn, Leon, and Mo - also known as The Renegades. Professor Kateyln is a whip-smart, sassy scientist who uses her 'Oracle...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.
Author
Series
Mechanists volume 1
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs. Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground...
93) The swimmers
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, who lives in the isolated forests of Gobari, navigating her mad mother and the strange blue light...
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Turtle loves her ocean home. Year after year, she travels to the beach where she was born, and along the way, she marvels at the wonderful sights around her. But during one journey, when she's older and bigger, Turtle notices that things look different in her ocean. Plastic bags and other pieces of garbage have been dropped into the water, and Turtle doesn't recognize her home anymore. Can anything--or anyone--save Turtle's beloved home?...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
Author
Series
Fifth hero volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five climate hero kids with special powers try and save animals left out in the cold by the evil Calamity Corporation--and readers must make a choice in scenarios that change the course of the adventure.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spanning across time, continents, and DC comics titles, a cold new threat arises at the former site of the Fortress of Solitude! 1000 years ago, a disparate group of heroes - Hippolyta, Black Adam, Swamp Thing and the Viking Prince - banded together to prevent the world from freezing at the hands of the Frost King, an exiled Norse god with the ability to control entire ecosystems. The heroes triumphed, but victory came at a terrible price, one that...
98) One small hop
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ahab Goldstein is a seventh-grader living in an United States (specifically Maine) where the environment has turned toxic, and the corrupt Environmental Police Force is in control, limiting access to natural resources like gas and water, issuing fines, and transporting "fragile" species (pretty much all of them) to the Center for Species Rehabilitation in New Arcadia (a dubious refuge at best); so when Ahab and his friends find a real live bullfrog...
Author
Description
For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether...