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1) Two degrees
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
3) Ship breaker
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Series
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
6) Arctic drift
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Language
English
Description
When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occur in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled Northwest Passage expedition.
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After Little Critter learns about Earth Day in school, he does everything he can to help protect the environment and save the polar bears from global warming, but he gets discouraged when his Climate Control Machine fails to work.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
10) Just for fins
Author
Series
Fins volume 3
Language
English
Description
As the mermaid Crown Princess of Thalassinia, Lily must dive deep into findng a solution when she discovers the ocean's warming is causing big waves for both mermaids and humans.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
12) Roberto & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future.
13) 2065
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Tras una ola de calor sin precedentes, un huracán amenaza la península. Una carrera contrarreloj frente al poder corrupto que controla los hilos del calentamiento global.Madrid, 2065. El calentamiento global provoca temperaturas altísimas con víctimas por golpes de calor, así como escasez de agua y de fuentes de energía. Un asesor del Ministerio del Cambio Climático, Adrián Salor, recibe la noticia del accidente mortal de su mujer, África,...
14) Bye, penguin!
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
You'd think that a penguin stranded on an ever-smaller block of ice, on a trip around the world wouldn't be so. FUN! But it is! There's our fearless penguin passing the gondolas of Venice. There's penguin floating by the Sydney Opera House! From the Aurora Borealis to a hilarious encounter with a surfer in Hawaii, this is a wordless journey that truly FROLICKS. In fact, the adventures are so amusing that most readers will barely register the nod to...
Author
Publisher
Double M Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mandalay Hawk's Dilemma : Set in 2030, the book is about a 13-year-old girl's effort to save the world from global warming. The story unwinds in 2030 as The Biiig Heat, the new global warming, is suffocating and swamping earth, causing death, destruction and mayhem like never before. New York City is partially under water (permanently!), a flash forest fire has wiped out the Bronx Zoo, a hail storm kills dozens, hurricanes kill thousands, and it's...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
17) Solstice
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Piper lives with her controlling mother amid a Global Heating Crisis, but when she gets her first taste of freedom she discovers a universe of gods and monsters where her true identity, kept secret from her birth, could make all the difference in the world.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Holed up on a ranch in Texas, the Renegades are recouping after their Arctic adventures. But a bout of mysterious fires soon sees them fly off to the Amazon, where deadly fire-breathing creatures called Flamejantes are destroying the rainforest. Katelyn, Mo, and Leon must team up with local indigenous activists to stop them. And it looks like something - or someone - sinister is behind the creatures' sudden appearance..."--Provided by publisher.
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