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A young revolutionary risks everything to secure her people’s freedom when her small African village is decimated by an American oil company that reneges on promises of reparation.
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large...
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"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast....
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2021.
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English
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A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
5) Breathe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea--an unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears--walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome....
6) The Lorax
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem.
7) Resist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Alina, Quinn, and Bea, now outlaws and outcasts, make their way to the last enclave of the Resistance but once there, they discover they can count on no one but each other and may, in fact, have to betray those they considered allies.
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McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale.
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University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Confronting harsh ecological realities, this book explores the roots of social injustice and offers a down-powering path to "fewer and less." Since the advent of agriculture, humans have been depleting the ecological capital of the planet, with some doing far more damage than others. In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen, two of today's most prominent writers in the fields of sustainability studies, argue that to understand...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us...
12) The environment
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Greenhaven Press
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2014.
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English
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"Opposing Viewpoints: The Environment: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature."--Amazon.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.
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Children of Eden volume 3
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Keywords Press, Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The electrifying conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series Children of Eden that follows Rowan as she leaves behind the paradise shes always dreamed of to save Edenand the worldfrom a terrible fate. Rowan is finally in Harmonia, an Earth-friendly, sustainable commune in the wilderness she always thought was dead. Even in this idyllic world, she finds no peace. Harmonia has strict rulesand dire consequences. Thinking about Eden is forbidden,...
18) Rootless
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Series
Rootless series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In a world devastated by war and disease, a young tree builder searches for the last trees on earth.
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Neptune Project volume 1
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Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"A group of kids who have been genetically altered to survive in the ocean must embark on a dangerous underwater journey to find refuge--and maybe even a way to save the world"--
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