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Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Laskarises' relocation to Wilford Island, Florida, is a big key change for Mimi ... Then her science teacher, Ms. Miller, shows her class a TED Talk by Melati and Isabel Wijsen. At ages twelve and ten, they lobbied to ban single-use plastic bags on their home island of Bali--and won. Their story strikes a chord for Mimi. She's twelve. Could a kid like her make such a big change in a place that she's not yet sure feels like home?"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
An oil spill spells trouble for Seaside Sanctuary and the birds and other marine animals that live along the beach, including a young pelican that Elsa and Olivia rescue; all the birds need to be carefully cleaned and given medical attention--but there is another problem: until the spill is cleaned up the birds cannot be released, and the company responsible for the spill does not seem interested in doing its part.
Author
Series
Mermaid S.O.S ; 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holly must solve the puzzle of an old legend if she and the other mermaids are to stop the toxic waste leaking from a wrecked ship, threatening a family of turtles living nearby, and get back to their vital mission for Queen Neptuna.
Author
Series
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This fortieth anniversary edition of Tomie dePaola's classic picture book uses a light touch to address environmental themes just as relevant today as when this book was initially published"--
A young boy who loves the countryside determines to find the source of the black cloud that hovers above it.
13) Cobra strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source of the pollution.
16) River
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A river gradually becomes depleted as more and more people use its resources to build cities, transport goods, and handle sewage.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to transform a giant floating garbage patch into a habitable eighth continent where people can escape an oppressive bureaucracy, Evie and Rick must race against time when a plastic-obsessed villainess tries to claim the continent to expand her power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs to be protected from pretty much everybody.
20) Fish
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Finn and his dog, Skip, want to catch a delicious fish for their dinner. But, no matter how hard they try, all they manage to catch is other people's trash! Heading home with empty tummies, they meet some new friends who teach them about the problem of pollution in the ocean, and what they can do to help. Finn and Skip make little changes to what they do with their trash, and slowly it has a magical effect on the ocean. Finn and Skip feel so proud...