Go Green!
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.
Barraclough, Sue. Protecting Species and Habitats
Includes opposing perspectives on a variety of environmental issues and the best ways to deal with them.
Wagner, Viqi. Endangered Species
Includes opinions on both sides of this topic from environmentalists, government officials, and findings from government panels and studies.
Discusses some of the greatest problems that threaten our ecosystems, and the solutions that could help transform our world.
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.
Describes environmental problems facing our planet and what kinds of volunteer work can be done to improve conditions.
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.
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.
An adaptation of the New York Times Bestseller, this book discusses the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t throw away your old t-shirts: transform them into fashionable clothing, accessories, and other items.
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.
Jeans out of style? Don’t fit? You can transform them into slippers, skirts, wallets, shirts, and much more.
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."
Fiction
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compiled by Sarah Wasser, May 2009
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