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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
First published in 1962, this book alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides. The outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects, seeing the world through their eyes as well as his own. He explains how and why they attack and reveals the powerful punch they can deliver with a small venom gland and a "sting," the name for the apparatus that delivers the venom. We learn which insects are the worst to encounter and why some are barely worth considering.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Did you know there are zombie bugs that not only eat other bugs but also inhabit and control their bodies? Theres even a wasp that delivers a perfectly-placed sting in a cockroachs brain and then leads the roach around by its antennae like a dog on a leash. Scorpions glow in ultraviolet light. Lots of bugs dine on corpses. And if you want to know how much it hurts to get stung by a bullet ant (hint: it really, really hurts), you can consult the Schmidt...
6) Slug bread & beheaded thistles: amusing & useful techniques for nontoxic housekeeping & gardening
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While orchard owner Meg Corey dreads the labor of manual irrigation to stave off a drought, her boyfriend, Seth, couldn't be more excited about doing historic renovation on one of Granford's oldest houses. Tagging along as he picks up supplies is supposed to give Meg a much-needed break, but the trip turns rotten when she almost trips over a dead body at an old saw mill's forest reserve. But the body isn't the only frightening discovery she makes....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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