Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Explore how different animals in different habitats use recycled material to build homes, protect themselves, and get food.

Amelia Bedelia and her friends rally their town into recycling, but soon end up with more junk than they know what to do with. Plus, there's a graffiti artist on the loose! --

"An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life -- throwing things out -- and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture -- the trash it produces -- and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century,...

Simple text and photograph illustrations explains how some materials are recycled and reused.

Simple rhyming text follows children as they recycle bottles and cans and donate old clothes to charity.

Provides information about recycling and includes step-by-step instructions for experiments that teach about plastics, solid waste and decomposition, litter, and other related topics.

Five-year-old Eli's enthusiasm for saving the planet gets out of hand as he continues to fill his room with more and more junk he intends to recycle.

A drive to recycle cans on Earth Day teaches the children of the Maple Street School Save-the-Planet Club about place value.

Each book in the My Friendly Neighborhood series is written for the earliest readers and dedicated to describing a neighborhood worker in their community. This book studies the responsibilities of waste and recycling collectors. Simple sentence structure and word usage help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index. Index. Glossary of key words. Table of contents. Author/Illustrator biography. Each book in...

The Lorax offers readers easy suggestions for going green.