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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed technology projects, including devising a sundial from recycled cardboard, refreshing old earbuds with string, and making a cell phone charging cradle from a recycled container.
83) The best sweater
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Spindle the mouse receives a sweater from his grandma for his birthday. He thinks it's the best sweater he's ever seen! When he starts to outgrow it, he still wants to wear it. Grandma has to come up with some other uses for the sweater so that he can keep enjoying it.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What happens to buried garbage? How does garbage change? What problems does garbage cause? By taking a trip to a recycling center, landfill and town dump, kids will come to understand what happens to trash and garbage after they throw it away. A program that focuses on the environmental problems created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to alleviate the problem.
Publisher
Filmideas
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"As the world's garbage piles grow to even greater heights, many people and industries are finding new uses for old things. In Manila, the Philippines, local women are running a thriving business repurposing old papers into fashionable accessories creating a worldwide demand. In the U.S., recycling E-Waste is big business as producers and consumers consider important ways to reduce their toxic impact on the environment. It begs the question: So, what...
Author
Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
We all know plastic use is a big problem, but when did we start using plastic? And why? Start a journey through the life cycle of plastic to learn how plastics are produced, the many uses of plastics throughout the last century, how our plastic use has spiralled out of control, and some ideas for what we can do about it. Here's the whole story about plastic- filled with information to empower children to make choices that will affect their future....
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Grace can do a lot of things...but can she save the planet? Or at the very least, can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite stuffed animal back? Lots of exciting things are happening to Grace and her friends. Most exciting of all, Mimi's older cousin Gwen is coming to stay with Mimi, and Miss Lois's class is going green! For their "green" project, Grace and Mimi aim to inspire their friends and classmates to conserve plastic bottles. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Iberia S.A
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
"Una día llegó a Villasilla un señor que tenía cara de cartón. Se llamaba Uriel y conducía un camión de papel. Y, además, quería quedarse con todo el papel que hubiera por el pueblo. Para qué? Qué será lo que busca Uriel? Una carta? O lo querrá para hacer fuego y calentarse con él? Uriel nos enseñará lo importante que es reciclar."--P. [4] of cover.
Cuando un extraño hombre con una cara de cartón y un camión de papel llega a Villasilla...
Author
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Isidora and Julian, playing in the Chilean ocean, hear a plaintive cry -- a sea lion is tangled in an abandoned fishing net. They free their ocean friend then consider what to do with the net. With the help of a bird building its nest, they recycle it into something useful again, something better than new.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a mechanical mishap, studious environmentalist Charlie and artistic Oliver travel back through time and must gather information on recycling throughout the ages to return to the present day.
"When a science project goes awry, two student activists travel through time to learn how to protect our Earth from plastic pollution in modern times. Studious environmentalist Charlie is stuck with a science fair partner who seems like her complete opposite:...
Author
Series
Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As best friends Mole and Mouse try to solve the problem of Mole's moth-eaten clothes, they also find new uses for old things.
94) Recycle rex
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Explains the ideas of recycling, reducing, and reusing through a group of dinosaurs who learn these concepts when the field where they play is in jeopardy of being turned into a landfill.
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids shows tweens how to take objects destined for the recycling bin and breathe new life into them to make room decor, organizers, school supplies, and so much more. The crafts in this book repurpose everyday items you likely have lying around, so there’s no need to spend lots of money or schedule a trip to the store. Clear instructions—Kids will have no trouble tackling these crafts thanks to simple directions that are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On trash day, Maisy and Tallulah drive the big, noisy recycling truck around the neighborhood, picking up everyone's old things to be made into new things.
"Get your empty bottles and cans ready—Maisy’s here to recycle them! A shaped-board-book adventure to please every truck-loving fan. It’s trash day today, and here come Maisy and Tallulah in a big, noisy recycling truck. Quick, Charley, they’re only one house away!...
99) Michael Recycle
Author
Series
Michael Recycle volume 1
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Michael's green adventures are about to get a whole lot messier when he faces threats to Earth's environment from all over the globe. Readers will blossom into full-fledged eco-super heroes as Michael teaches them about the challenges our planet faces and what they can do to help"--
100) The lost Compass
Author
Series
Fog diver novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old tetherboy Chess and his crew may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog. When they retreat to the mountaintop sanctuary of Port Oro, they discover that the deadly white mist will soon swallow the entire city. Will the slumkids be able to save Port Oro, or will they run out of time?"--
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