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Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment. When a local homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut.
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."--Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America. Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it is a 'back of the mind'...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
New third grade teacher Mr. Granite has so many strange ideas about how to make Ella Mentary School environmentally friendly that the students are sure he must be an alien.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies). Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing. The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects of climate change but also to fight for climate justice and make a fair and livable future possible for everyone. And young people are not just part of that movement, they are leading...
12) Living green
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A discussion of the "green" movement, looking at efforts around the world to make and/or use environmentally friendly products, practices, and lifestyle choices, introducing green pioneers, examining related political and legal issues, and considering the future of green living.
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
When the pandemic hit in 2020, flour and vegetable seeds flew off the shelves. But homesteader and entrepreneur Jill Winger believes these longings for sourdough bread and fresh veggies are more than a trend. As our society races toward progress, we've left something important behind. We are more connected than ever before, yet we re still feeling unfulfilled. In Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Winger shows how simplifying our lives and adopting retro skills...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In Getting to Green, Frederic C. Rich argues that meaningful progress on urgent environmental issues can be made only on a bipartisan basis. Rich reminds us of American conservations conservative roots and of the bipartisan political consensus that had Republican congressmen voting for, and Richard Nixon signing, the most important environmental legislation of the 1970s. He argues that faithfulness to conservative principles requires the GOP to support...
18) Green movement
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In the face of injustice, people band together to work for change, and through their influence, what was once unthinkable becomes common. This title traces the history of the green movement in the United States, including the key players, watershed moments, and legislative battles that have driven social change. Iconic images and informative sidebars accompany compelling text that follows the movement from the work of nineteenth-century conservationists...
19) Archangel
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
A novel on eco-terrorism featuring Adam Gabriel, ex-fighter pilot turned defender of the environment. It begins with a logger in Maine cutting trees as fast as he can before a law turns a forest into a wilderness preserve. Opposing him is the woman editor of the local environmental paper, but her editorials do little good. Fresh from the eco-wars out West, Gabriel, whose home town this is, swings into action, spiking trees which causes chain saws...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As people began to see how pollution and industry could damage the environment, they began to seek change. Environmental Protests explores the research that revealed how common practices harmed the environment, the events people held to raise awareness, and the tactics protesters use to protect nature and change laws.