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1) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A team of scientists explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have gathered, having drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Introduces the problems of global waste disposal, describing the hazards of toxins associated with landfills, plastics floating in the oceans, and debris orbiting the planet, with some of the solutions proposed by scientists. --Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nana had never heard about Christmas. When the toys of the Westerfeld Waste Transfer and Recycling Center tell her about the one magical night of the year when Santa Claus delivers toys to good boys and girls, she insists on writing him her own letter. But when Santa arrives with their gifts in tow, the Forklift of Doom mistakes Santa's sleigh for garbage. Can Nana and her trash friends band together to save Christmas?
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seaside Sanctuary Marine Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina has a wild pen which is supposed to be healthier for the marine animals brought there, but the three new dolphins are getting sick and no one can explain why; Elsa Roth, whose parents work at the sanctuary, is convinced that a local chemical plant is to blame, but since the water tests do not show contamination she is having trouble getting the adults to believe her--and if she is going to...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Col
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In "Waste," Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
13) The war on waste
Author
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An examination of the various types of waste produced by people, exploring how much of it exists and where it goes, as well as how waste can be remade into useful items to contribute to a healthier planet.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the history and eventual cleanup of the ecological disaster known as Love Canal, which resulted from building a neighborhood over a chemical dumpsite that poisoned the environment and endangered the health of residents.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in...
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