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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
It's been three years since Cee woke up on the shore of an abandoned island, with no memories of life prior, or how she got there. All she knows is she has a sister-- and is determined to find her. A world away, STEM prodigy Kasey is looking...
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English
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"In this personal, moving essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a human issue that can't be ignored."--
If we wait for the floodwater to reach our doorstep, it will be too late. Earth Guardians youth director and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and activism to show that climate change is a human issue. In Imaginary Borders, Martinez visualizes...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Belle Song accidentally discovers a rare and valuable mineral deposit near Mount Olympus on Mars, a huge mining company moves in to claim rights. But to mine the land, they put Mars' water supply at risk. Soon, protesters and company officials clash, and Belle and her friends learn about the complexities of protecting the environment.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast....
6) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010, 2009.
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When legendary logger Paul Bunyan falls in love with Lucette Diana Kensack, he will do whatever it takes to win her heart, including trying to restore the Minnesota environment to its previous condition as part of Lucette's "love test."
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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...
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English
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"Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside. After the previous sheriff...
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English
Description
From the icy poles to the evergreen rainforests, life has found a way to flourish in nearly every environment on Earth. This book explores the startling discoveries of new life forms in extreme environments, such as the strange worlds of the ocean depths. Whilst marveling the world around us, it also confronts the human impact on the environment. The mounting evidence for global warming is explored and challenges us to work towards a more sustainable...
11) The fire eternal
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 2
Publisher
Keywords Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Elite party girl Yarrow, the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden, and Rowan, whose very existence is illegal, discover threads that bind them and could change Eden forever.
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 3
Publisher
Keywords Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Follows Rowan as she leaves behind the paradise she's always dreamed of to save Eden--and the world--from a terrible fate"--
Author
Series
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Examines the importance of the way dinosaurs lived and died, describing how people have come to understand the nature of deep time and humanity's place in the world as it moves into an uncertain environmental future.
16) But not for long
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hard-shelled, career-minded Greta is the newest and least likely member of a sustainable foods cooperative house in Madison, Wisconsin. Shortly after she joins Karin and Hal in their stately residence near campus, the husband Greta left appears on their porch, drunk, and the reason for her sudden appearance becomes clear. Yet the house members already have plenty to occupy them: a series of summer blackouts has unearthed a disquietude lurking just...
17) Resist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
18) Snowflake, AZ
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ash finds her stepbrother, Bly, in Snowflake, Arizona, where an odd assortment of neighbors--and soon, Ash--are sick from modern life, paralleling the planet's decline.
Snowflake, Arizona, six thousand feet up in the wide red desert. Ash is looking for her brother, Bly. She Mona; her goat, Socrates; her dog, Cooper; and finds Bly. They live in ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil. Mona and her neighbors are all sick. They've been poisoned...
19) Frozen
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
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