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1) 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
Author
Series
Purrmaids volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Purrmaids Coral, Shelly, and Angel help clean up the ocean as a school project and rescue the brother of their mermicorn friend, Sirena, who is trapped by plastic soda rings
5) 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
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Laskarises' relocation to Wilford Island, Florida, is a big key change for Mimi ... Then her science teacher, Ms. Miller, shows her class a TED Talk by Melati and Isabel Wijsen. At ages twelve and ten, they lobbied to ban single-use plastic bags on their home island of Bali--and won. Their story strikes a chord for Mimi. She's twelve. Could a kid like her make such a big change in a place that she's not yet sure feels like home?"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mr. King likes pretty things. He also likes machines. So when he discovers a flower that has been nibbled by a caterpillar, he builds himself a Caterpillar-Catcher. Off he zooms--unaware that his machine is filling the sky with smoke and that his friends are calling him to stop! When he finally does, his friends are not happy. But with some imagination, Mr. King figures out a way to green his machine--and the world around him!"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Brother's class studies birds, the citizens of Bear Country end up choosing sides in a battle between environmentalists and those who want to cut down the trees in Birder's Woods to build houses
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2009, ©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans
10) Hansel and Greta
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Greta lives with her brother, Hansel, on the edge of a great forest, a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping, and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text set to the tune of "The More We Get Together" follow a group of friends as they work together to make their urban neighborhood cleaner, friendlier, and safer for everyone. Includes "Ways to make a difference" and musical score
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Snowboy is busy saving the Polar Bear King when Greenbackboy approaches him with an idea for a game called KA-CHING -- a game that will make them rich. It's easy: all they need to do is cut down all of the trees in the forest and catch all of the fish in the ocean and trade it in for piles and piles of shiny KA-CHING. But if all the trees are gone, they won't be able to breathe. And what is a sea without fish?
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Monkey proclaims that it is his birthday, all the other jungle animals protest, claiming instead that it is Earth Day and telling Monkey what he should do to honor this special day
Author
Series
Pout-pout fish adventures volume 8
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021
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
15) Window
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the events and changes in a young boy's life and in his environment, from babyhood to grownup, through wordless scenes observed from the window of his room
"The effect human beings have on the landscape around them is the theme of Baker's most recent tour de force....The artist's multimedia collage constructions are, as ever, fascinating in their realistic detail and powerfully convey the dramatic message.."--Horn Book
Author
Series
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
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