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Non-fiction
Passero, Barbara, editor. Energy Alternatives
Includes opinions on both sides of this topic from experts in the fields of science, technology, and government. Includes a list of organizations to contact for more information.
YA COLL 333.79 ENE
Barraclough, Sue. Protecting Species and Habitats
Includes opposing perspectives on a variety of environmental issues and the best ways to deal with them.
YA COLL 333.9516 BAR
Wagner, Viqi. Endangered Species
Includes opinions on both sides of this topic from environmentalists, government officials, and findings from government panels and studies.
YA COLL 333.9522 END
Winters, Adam. Destruction of Earth’s Resources: The Need for Sustainable Development
Discusses some of the greatest problems that threaten our ecosystems, and the solutions that could help transform our world.
YA COLL 338.927 WIN
Endangered Earth
A collection of articles about global warming originally published in Scientific American magazine. Also contains a list of books for further reading and a link to an online list of websites on the topic compiled by the book’s publisher.
YA COLL 363.7 END
Gartner, Robert. Working Together Against the Destruction of the Earth
Describes environmental problems facing our planet and what kinds of volunteer work can be done to improve conditions.
YA COLL 363.7 GAR
Biley, Cynthia A. Pollution
Provides a collection of essays that offer varying opinions on the subject of pollution, including how pollution affects public health, is pollution a serious problem, and what can be done about pollution.
YA COLL 363.73 POL
Watson, Stephanie. Critical Perspectives on Pollution
A collection of articles originally published in Scientific American magazine. Also contains a comprehensive bibliography on the subject and a link to an online list of websites on the topic compiled by the book’s publisher.
YA COLL 363.73 WAT
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: the Crisis of Global Warming
An adaptation of the New York Times Bestseller, this book discusses the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
YA COLL 363.7387 GOR
McGavin, George. Endangered: Wildlife on the Brink of Extinction
Features the living species that are threatened by extinction and looks at the work of conservationist groups attempting to reverse the current wave of extinctions.
YA COLL 578.68 MCG
MySpace Our Planet: Change is Possible
You can change the world! This book by the MySpace Community will show you how to improve the environment and make any other social change.
YA COLL 640 MYS
Sivetsen, Linda. Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
Provides information on issues such as global warming and overflowing landfills; offers tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way; and shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of life.
YA COLL 640 SIL
Nicolay Megan. Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt
Don’t throw away your old t-shirts: transform them into fashionable clothing, accessories, and other items.
YA COLL 646.404 NIC
Vitkus, Jessica. Alternacrafts: 20+ Hi Style, Lo Budget Projects to Make
You know all of that junk that you were going to throw away? Learn how to easily make things to wear, projects for the home, and gifts for friends and family from things found around the home.
YA COLL 745.5 VIT
Warwick, Ellen. Injeanuity
Jeans out of style? Don’t fit? You can transform them into slippers, skirts, wallets, shirts, and much more.
YA COLL 746.9 WAR
Levine, Ellen. Rachel Carson: a Twentieth Century Life
Discusses author and marine biologist Rachel Carson and her efforts to protect the environment from her childhood nature outings through the impact of her 1962 book, "Silent Spring."
YA COLL B CARSON RACHEL LEV
Fiction
Gilman, David. The Devil’s Breath
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
YA FIC GILMAN
Golding, Julia. The Gorgon’s Gaze
Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development.
YA COLL FIC GOLDING
Halam, Ann. Siberia: a novel
After spending two years at a prison school, thirteen-year-old Sloe sets off on a trek across frozen wastelands, tending to the secret "seeds" of wild animals her mother left in her care, trying to reach a new life for all of them.
YA COLL FIC HAL
Hautman, Pete. Skullduggery
During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
YA COLL FIC HAUTMAN
Hiaasen, Carl. Flush
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
J FICTION HIAASEN, YA CDBK FIC HIAASEN
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot \
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
YA PB HIA, J CDBK HIAASEN
Nelson, Blake. They Came From Below
While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution.
YA COLL FIC NELSON
Voake, Steve. The Dreamwalker’s Child
After being hit by a car Sam Palmer finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth's ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a lethal virus spread by mosquitoes.
YA COLL FIC VOAKE
Compiled by Sarah Wasser, May 2009
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