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by Karen Romano Young
Nonfiction
Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction.
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by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Nonfiction
An architect and a chemist join forces to present a revolutionary new kind of production, designing objects to be reused as food or components for new products, use clean energy, and are designed for specific places.
Book: BCCLS
by Carole Lindstrom
Fiction
When a snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people’s water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America. (picture book)
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by Harriet A. Washington
Nonfiction
What does environmentalism have to do with social justice and academic achievement? From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers.
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by Wangari Maathai
Nonfiction
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, activist and politician Wangari Maathai has been fighting for environmental responsibility and democracy in Kenya for over 35 years.
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by Stuart Kallen
Nonfiction
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.
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by Richard Powers
Fiction
There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
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by Jesmyn Ward
Fiction
Bois Sauvage, Mississippi: the 12 days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. This big-hearted novel portrays a tale of familial love against all odds, a wrenching look at the restrictive realities of rural poverty, and the devastating effects of climate change on vulnerable communities.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Barbara Kingsolver
Nonfiction
For one year, a renowned novelist and her family decided to eat locally–and no other way. They only bought food raised in their own neighborhood, grew it themselves, or learned to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the book will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Brigette Allen and Christine Wong
Nonfiction
Most plastic never gets recycled. This book presents alternative recipes for hair spray, water filters, and watercolors alongside photos of all-natural ingredients and creations.
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by Zoë Tucker
Fiction
Greta lives in a forest threatened by Giants who keep chopping down trees to make ever bigger homes and cities. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? (picture book)
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by Gail Herman
Nonfiction
An overview of climate change, discussing if humans are at fault for the rapidly warming Earth, and describes why climate change has recently become a political issue. (chapter book)
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eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Fiction
In a futuristic world, Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers. When he finds a ship with a girl in the wreckage, he must decide if he should strip the ship or rescue her.
Book: BCCLS
by Cherie Dimaline
Fiction
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of “recruiters” who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
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by Elizabeth Kolbert
Nonfiction
Author of the Pulitzer-winning “The Sixth Extinction” and a New Yorker staff writer explores recent colorful attempts to fix the effects of environmental damage: electrifying rivers, artificially inseminating coral reefs, and genetically modifying Australian cane toads.
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by Kirsti Blom and Geir Wing Gabrielsen
Nonfiction
If we continue to dump as much plastic as we do today, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. Fortunately, there are actions we can take as individuals and as a global community to reduce plastic waste in our oceans. (picture book)
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by P. O’Connell Pearson
Nonfiction
The story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who changed their country for the better. (chapter book)
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by Donna Jo Napoli
Nonfiction
Wangari Muta Maathai, known as “Mama Miti,” founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that mobilized people to combat deforestation, soil erosion, and environmental degradation. (picture book)
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by Celia C. Pérez
Fiction
After a group of girls fail to end an endangered-species-unfriendly tradition carried out by the Floras, a local Scouts group, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. (chapter book)
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by Hope Jahren
Nonfiction
A brilliant geobiologist combines an explanation of the mechanisms of global warming with a capsule history of human development, showing us how we can use less and share more.
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by Meghan Rock
Nonfiction
Discusses the life of the famous environmentalist, including her personal history, her introduction to the field, and her most influential work, “Silent Spring.”
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by Margarita Engle
Nonfiction
A companion to the Young People’s Poet Laureate’s award-winning Enchanted Air explores the impact of the Cuban Revolution on the author’s teen prospects and her burgeoning views on civil rights, freedom of expression and environmental protection
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by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Fiction
When a meteor hits the moon, Miranda must learn to survive. This is the story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all–hope–in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
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by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction
With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
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by Greta Thunberg
Nonfiction
In August 2018, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis, sparking a global movement and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
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by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction
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. (chapter book)
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by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Nonfiction
Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.
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by Jen Green
Nonfiction
Explores how the changing ideas about the environment and sustainability have impacted conservation efforts.
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by Michelle Nijhuis
Nonfiction
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, from the early battles in the 19th century to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale.
by Louis Sachar
Fiction
Two kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world. (chapter book)
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by Jennifer Swanson
Nonfiction
Explains what geoengineering is and the ethical questions surrounding its use.
Book: BCCLS
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction
An unusual mix of science and poetry, memoir and research about acknowledging and celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world, by a botanist who is also Native American.
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by Helen Macdonald
Nonfiction
A luminous, thought-provoking collection of essays about the natural world: the author watches migrating songbirds from the Empire State Building, tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests and more
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eBook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
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by Mary McKenna Siddals
Fiction
A rhyming recipe explains how to make the dark, crumbly, rich, earth-friendly organic material called compost. (picture book)
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by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks
Fiction
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These researchers made profound contributions to primatology—and to our understanding of ourselves.
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ed. Stephen Feinstein
Nonfiction
The scientific community today largely agrees that climate change is occurring, and could have devastating consequences. This essential volume includes scientific data and experts’ opinion, along with ordinary people’s viewpoints, to examine this important issue.
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by Miranda Paul
Nonfiction
In Njau, Gambia, plastic bags littered roads, drew mosquitos and disease, and endangered livestock. Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community in this true story. (picture book)
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by H. Joseph Hopkins
Nonfiction
Katherine Olivia Session began a movement that transformed San Diego into the green oasis it is today. Her gorgeous gardens and parks can be found all over the city. (picture book)
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