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1) Conservation
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Bold color photos and easy-to-read text introduce readers to conservation. Five informative chapters highlight why conservation is important and ways people work to protect our natural resources. Zoom in even deeper with key stats and bolded glossary terms that make learning fun. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO. Glossary of key words; Index; Table of contents.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After oil was discovered in Nubian giraffes' habitat, conservationists needed to move some of them across a river to safer territory. But there was no bridge and giraffes can't swim. Follow this unusual--and successful--rescue!
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Una inspiradora historia real sobre cómo una activista trabajó en la Amazonía con otras comunidades indígenas para proteger y preservar sus tierras y selvas sagradas.
An inspiring true story about how an activist in the Amazon worked with other Indigenous communities to protect and preserve their sacred lands and forests.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
En todo el mundo se talan árboles. Pero ¿por qué se talan los bosques lluviosos, y qué ocurrirá si se desaparecen? En esta novela gráfica de no ficción, Max Axiom y la Sociedad de supercientíficos tienen la misión de averiguarlo. Utilizando sus superpoderes y su superinteligencia, el equipo desglosará cada pieza de este complejo problema medioambiental en una aventura emocionante e informativas para que los jóvenes lectores puedan conocer...
Author
Publisher
Countryman Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Danny Seo is known for his ability to make natural, healthy living accessible. In his nationally syndicated column, "Do Just One Thing," Danny showed readers how to make small but powerful choices every day that would positively impact the planet. And as Seo points out, reducing our carbon footprint can actually mean saving money, time, and our health, too!
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR -- a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they've looted from Jewish families. Fabienne Brandt was a rising star in the Parisian bohemian...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Books Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book examines the connection between humans and nature, why that connection is important and what we can learn from being outdoors. Illustrated with photographs throughout.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The orca-otherwise known as the killer whale-is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkably sophisticated, orcas have languages and cultures and even long-term memories, and their capacity for echolocation is nothing short of a sixth sense. They are also benign and gentle, which makes the story of the captive-orca industry-and the endangerment of their population in Puget Sound-that much more damning.
In Of Orcas and Men, a marvelously compelling...
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees.
The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent.
As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds from skeptical neighbors, environmental experts, and agricultural...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Long before she became known as the Cactus Queen, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt found solace in the unexpected beauty of the Mojave Desert in California. She loved the jackrabbits and coyotes, the prickly cacti, and especially the weird, spiky Joshua trees. However, in the 1920s, hardly anyone else felt the same way. The desert was being thoughtlessly destroyed by anyone and everyone. Minerva knew she needed to bring attention to the problem. With the help...
Author
Publisher
Ruby Tuesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
These little eight-legged creatures are often the stuff of people's nightmares, but spiders are amazing animals that are essential for our world. Told from a spider's point of view, in this book spiders set out to convince their human doubters that they really aren't out to scare or harm people. In fact, they are far too busy weaving beautiful silk structures, hunting, keeping insect pests under control and raising their young to want to frighten...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide. Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety. Find out how to validate your emotions and build your resilience. Discover the comfort that can be found in your community. Understand and face your eco-anxiety with ten accessible steps. A "tool kit"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability-at the level of literature, history, and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to current modes of thinking...
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