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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him, Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel, The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town. Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her dentist, her parents, and her teachers. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning Nordic author and illustrator Linda Bondestam comes a new kind of climate change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl who is-possibly-the last of its kind. In a forest of seaweed there was ME, a rare and beautiful little axolotl, going for my first-ever swim. So graceful, and yet so lonesome-out of 987 eggs, mine was the only one that hatched. Who knows, maybe I was the last axolotl in these waters? At the bottom of a lake in...
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 3 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time ... until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due to pollution. Stella wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can't do it alone. It's going to take a lot of work and help from old and new friends to make a difference, but Stella D?iaz never gives...
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Low riders volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lupe, an impala with a flair for mechanics, Flapjack, a sweet young octopus with vision problems, and the other Lowriders are concerned about the pollution in their town, and the greedy Upscale Business Association's plans to tear down local businesses--but first they must rescue the migrating monarchs from a wildfire caused by drought and climate change.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 11
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything to get out of going to summer camp.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
"More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced - a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for our children." - Washington Post
"5 of 5 stars. Gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what...
11) Sahara
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Egypt, 1996. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who|s investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world|s seas."--Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
With pictures from the illustrator behind Last Week Tonight's A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, this delightfully punny story about ocean life, conservation, and cooperation is perfect for sparking conversations in the classroom and at home.
Walt is a proud lobstah whose greatest dream is winning the annual Swell Gahdens contest. But ,year after year that honor always goes to his chowdah-head neighbor Milton. One day, when heaps of gahbage show...
13) Clem and crab
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Clem is an explorer, a collector, a protector of the seas! Treasure hunting on her beloved beach, she stumbles across Crab, whose claw is stuck in a plastic bag. Crab will be much safer and happier in the city with Clem, but doesn't he belong on the beach? A stunningly illustrated, timely tale of cleaning up our beaches, with the message that every small action helps.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his signature quirky style, Russell Ayto takes on the plastic crisis in Plastic Pollution Is Ruining Our Ocean! -- a story about a video game-loving boy named Neo and some unexpected aquatic visitors, who need his help. Neo and his grandfather live by the ocean. The ocean has a big problem. It's called plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is also a big problem in Neo's room. His room is a complete mess. Grandpa calls it "an area of outstanding...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 157
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jessie is studying water pollution for her science fair project. But when the stream she is studying starts to disappear, the Boxcar Children have a much bigger mystery to solve!
16) Someday a tree
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unp : col. illus.
Language
English
Description
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A whale takes a child on adventure across the ocean, and together they explore the wonders of the ocean world, but also the sad state of plastic pollution--and the child returns home to try and help the whale to save his marine home.
Author
Series
Super sidekicks volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Super Sidekicks are back! JJ, Flygirl, Dinomite, and Goo are settling into their fancy new headquarters and living the sweet life of superheroes. The Mother of the Seas, on the other hand, is NOT happy. She's sick of land dwellers using the ocean as a dumping ground ... and she's seeking revenge! Can the Sidekicks step up and save humanity from the ocean's rage?"--Amazon.com.
19) Teen, Inc
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
244 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp. since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to dosomething about it.
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