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Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Earth is our home, and its our responsibility to take care of it. Thats just one important truth students will learn through this title, which tackles the problem of pollution in an accessible way. With text written to support elementary science curricula, students will learn what causes pollution, why its harmful, and what can be done to fix it. Detailed photographs and fact boxes supplement the text, and nonfiction text features complete a comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Discusses the problem of ocean pollution humans have caused by dumping mustard gas, arsenic, mercury, raw sewage, plastic, and other things dangerous to marine life and ultimately to the top of the food chain, human beings.
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Widowed, broke, and adrift, farmer Fred Stern finds a new purpose in life when he learns that a multi-national oil company has been polluting his water. But as his crusade against the posers that spill out of the courtroom and into his personal life, Fred must find a way to avoid the ruin of his farm, his family, and his dreams. It pulls back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a vacation to a lake in British Columbia, where they discover the famous local lake monster "Orky". The children launch a plan to keep local polluters from dumping toxic waste into the lake.
8) Oil spill!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explains why oil spills occur and how they are cleaned up and suggests strategies for preventing them in the future.
9) Dying oceans
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Children's Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the ecological balance of life in the world's oceans and how it is endangered by ocean pollution.
10) Moondog
Author
Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Moondog finds a way to protect the Moon from being settled by humans who, having despoiled the Earth, are searching for a new home.
12) Just a dream
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment.
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Here is the story of the Gulf of Mexico--beginning with its ancient origins by plate tectonics and sediment deposition, to space-age technology that measures daily sea surface temperature variations via satelite. It's a story that traces the economic utilization of Gulf's unique great Loop Current by early peoples as diverse as the Mayans, Aztecs and Spanish inperialists, to the present-day offshore oil companies and mercantile traders of the world....
15) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax? Includes an all-new featurette and two special features: Pontoffel Pock & His Magical Piano and Butter Battle Book.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Company
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Oceans and seas are habitats for millions of animals and plants. Life on land depends on the oceans. Sea creatures provide food for billions of people around the world. The waters of the oceans shape the weather, the land, and the planet's temperature. But human activity is endangering some of the world's most unique habitats. Warmer ocean temperatures due to climate change are affecting food webs both in the water and on land, and may be responsible...
19) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Water. The single most necessary element to sustain life. Brockovich warns that America's water crisis isn't looming on the horizon--it's already here. Superman Isn't Coming makes clear that the most precious resource on planet Earth is alarmingly polluted by toxins, hazardous waste, lead, fracking chemicals, and more. In the 20 years since her eponymous film, Brockovich has kept up the fight for clean water one town at a time. She receives thousands...
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