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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.
2) Going Green
Author
Publisher
Erickson Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces low-reading-level students to the effects of climate change and global warming, discussing ways to reduce pollution, save energy, reduce waste, and develop cleaner energy sources.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Examines how human activities, such as hunting animals, chopping down forests, and filling the air with fumes and the seas with waste, threatens plant and animal life to the point of extinction. Also describes positive things people can do to protect the world from further destruction.
6) Green Thumb
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating...
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