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Author
Series
Earth fairies volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel and Kirsty are helping Milly the River Fairy clean up a polluted river. But trouble making goblins keep getting in the way. The girls need to get Milly's wand back to make the river a safe place again"--
43) Our Earth
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (12 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and color photographs contrast things that are good and bad for the Earth, such as wind farms and smokestacks.
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 157
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jessie wants her science fair project to make a difference. So when she gets the chance to test a local creek for pollution, she can't wait to get started. But when things start going wrong with her experiment, Jessie and her siblings don't just have an experiment to investigate, they have a mystery to solve!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Paris Climate Agreement explores the issues surrounding the 2015 international agreement to combat climate change. Many nations were shocked when the United States later announced its decision to withdraw from the agreement. The book explores these political ramifications and encourages readers to form their own opinions" --
46) The day the river caught fire: how the Cuyahoga River exploded and ignited the Earth Day movement
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illlustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cayuhoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire almost twenty times, earning Cleveland the nickname 'The Mistake on the Lake.' Waste dumping had made fires so routine that local politicians and media didn't pay them any mind, and other Cleveland residents laughed off their combustible river and even wrote songs about it. But when the river ignited again in June 1969, the national media picked up on...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A new kind of climate change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl [a type of salamander], possibly the last of its kind.
49) Hazmat
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (31 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Every day, people are faced with critical, life-threatening situations – in times of trouble, who can help? In this title, readers will get to know the hazmat technicians who arrive on the scene of a toxic threat. Chapters highlight the nine classes of hazardous materials as well as the training, tools, and knowledge hazmat technicians need to save lives and property due to a nuclear radiation emergency, a chemical spill, or a contaminated area....
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide are all gases in Earth's atmosphere. But what happens when there is too much or two little of a certain gas? Readers will learn how every day activities such as driving, heating buildings, and using aerosols release harmful gases into the air and how it affects the air we breathe. Meets Next Generation Science Standards.
51) Poison town
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reporter Jack Crittendon learns people on the poor side of town are dying, and pollution from a local manufacturing plant may be to blame, nothing will stop his investigation.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The hydrosphere encompasses all water on Earth-from glaciers and ice to rivers and oceans. People use water every day. This title asks the question, how much do you use? Readers will learn how humans use water, how humans positively and negatively affect water, and how to protect the water supply. Meets Next Generation Science Standards.
53) Just a dream
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (370 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Attica: Demanding improvements in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents, endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds, fish, and other animals, harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky from the Questura in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has been heard in the bars of Murano making violent threats about Ribetti. Brunetti's curiosity is piqued, and...
57) Noah's ark
Author
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
[1st ed.]
Language
English
Description
After a dream about a zoo with nothing but empty cages marked "Extinct," Noah builds an ark to save the animals from the deadly pollution of the world.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Avatar Aangand his friends confront an ancient spirit determined to destroy a town on land sacred to the Air Nomads, Toph and Aang find themselves on opposing sides in a battle of gigantic proportions. If Toph and Aang don't put aside their differences, there's more at stake than just their friendship!"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Avatar Aang and his martial arts friends seek answers to the mysteries surrounding a refinery on land sacred to the Air Nomads, Toph uncovers a startling truth about her father's involvement with the refinery, while Aang travels to the spirit world, discovering a secret as surprising as it is dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
When Sebby Daniels escapes his dysfunctional family by seeking refuge in a glen in the middle of a devastated mining area, he experiences a series of very unusual events. In an attempt to determine the cause, he and his sister discover that the tunnels and caverns in the glen lead to the secret facilities of an astrophysicist who has been buying up all the land behind his family's home.