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1) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
2) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
5) Time Riders
Author
Series
TimeRiders series volume 1
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Mary Kate joins a special science pilot program focused on climate change, she and her friends come up with big plans to bring lasting change to their community.
7) The seekers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Mio and Nao learn that the old stories of spirits are true when they lead a group of villagers to find out what is stopping the river. Features backlit papercut illustrations.
8) Emily posts
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When she is cut from her middle school's podcast crew, social media influencer wannabe Emily Laurence must find another way to spread the news of a climate march, trying to balance her impeccable manners with 21st-century activism"--
9) The wild
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An environmental fable about protecting our planet, in which Earth is imagined as a beautiful, precious, and vulnerable creature called the Wild"--
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 13
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Mallory is appointed to the Fern Falls Elementary School Environmental Committee, which is deciding on class projects for the upcoming Green Fair, she rapidly succeeds in alienating her classmates, friends, and family by her overzealous efforts to save the planet.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Wisconsin, as her adoptive parents open their lake cabins for summer visitors, twelve-year-old Annalise, abandoned as an infant and able to communicate with the lake, discovers a growing toxic algae bloom and teams up with her friends to save the beloved body of water.
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While visiting her grandparents, who run whale-watching tours in Jamaica, Rocket sees first-hand how plastic is harming ocean creatures, and organizes a crew to clean up the local beach.
Author
Series
Pout-pout fish adventures volume 8
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Fish and an increasing number of sea creatures investigate, then decide how to deal with, a huge mess in the ocean. Includes tips for the reader to help clean up and protect the ocean.
17) Depth perception
Author
Series
Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
While working on a service project to clean up a local lake, Tom and his friends begin to question the behavior of famous inventor and project sponsor J.J. Jefferson, who seems unusually interested in the students' inventions.
18) Arrow
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Arrow was raised by the Guardian Tree in a rainforest protected by a magical veil, but now the veil is deteriorating and humans have entered, changing his life forever.
19) Time to roar
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When great yellow beasts threaten the forest, Sasha the bear and other animals try to use their strengths to stop them, including, finally, Sasha's big, loud, powerful roar.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a horrible year, twelve-year-old Milton spends the summer with his Uncle Evan, a naturalist on the Lone Island, where he learns about friendship, protecting the environment, and fighting for what is right.
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