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Kids can keep air clean
Explains air pollution and its effects, while providing ideas for readers to help keep the air clean.
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- 9781602798717
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- 363.7 MIN
Recycle
Recycling materials is the easiest way for everyone, even kids, to get involved in saving the planet. This new book explores how our garbage is processed, the problems it creates for the environment, and how we can change that. Children are encouraged to take an active part in preserving and caring for the environment through a multitude of ideas for recycling paper, glass, plastics, and other …
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- 9780778736592
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- Environment Action
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- 363.7 BAR
Famine in Africa
Explains how farming practices, poor soil, erratic rainfall, and economic and political factors have combined to produce Africa's famine, briefly looks at the history of famine, and outlines hopes for the future
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- 0863133703
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 29 cm
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- Issues..Issues..Issues
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- 363.8 TIM
Not for me, please! i choose to act green
Join Luke on his journey to protect what he loves with this engaging children's picture book about sustainability and acting green. After noticing the damage caused to the environment and animals due to trash and waste, Luke decides to take action. He believes he can have a big impact on the world around him and invites his readers to join him! Using his phrase, ‘Not for me, please!’ Luk…
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- 9781986909327
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- 34 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- 363.7 GOD
This is my planet : the kids guide to global warming
Reports of global warming’s catastrophic effects are everywhere: in newspapers, on the nightly news, even on movie screens. The subject can be so overwhelming that young people are often left with the thought, What can I do? In This Is My Planet, Jan Thornhill gives young readers the tools they need to live their own lives more ecologically — and ultimately, to improve the life of the plane…
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- 9781897349076
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- 64 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- 363.7 THO
Humanitarian organizations : greenpeace
Grade 5-8–Each book discusses the history, founder(s), early work, and core values of the featured group. Vibrantly colored maps show where the organization is located throughout the world. Handy time lines are included. Both titles have Concerns, campaigns, and classic actions sections. In Greenpeace, actions include encouraging Americans to write to Martha Stewart to ask her to stop using P…
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- 9780791088159
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 366 PAR
Battle for the planet : based on the major tv series
The Battle for the Planet is a battle for our own survival. The nine chapters of this book unfold the full folly of the ways in which we abuse our natural wealth and indicate the likely consequences of carrying on as we do now, tied down as we are by the dehumanized imperatives of conventional economics and the shrunken horizons of perplexed politicians. But each chapter also signpost the alter…
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- 9780330298919
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- 144 pages : illustration ; 29 cm
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- 363.7 SIN
Humanitarian organizations: the peace corps
Learn about the inspiring organizations that help to solve problems in countries around the world--from protecting the environment to protecting human rights to providing for basic needs in times of conflict and disaster--and how to get involved. Each book presents readers with the core values, main concerns, campaigns, and classic actions of each organization. Plus, an insider's perspective is…
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- 9780791088128
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- 366 HAS
Science spotlight : crime fighting
This book includes a heavy page worth of the processes and their importance in every subject that anyone would want to or could want to know. The book talks about fingerprints and all its types of finding and retrieving them to be used in a court case, teeth marks and bites which are underestimated in the crime fighting world because they are just as unique as some one's fingerprint. They talk …
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- 9780237512958
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- 44 pages : illustration ; 29 cm
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- 364 GRA
A graphic history of the civil rights movement : the little rock nine and the…
The story of a group of African American students known as the Little Rock Nine is a saga of incredible courage and grace. Following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that struck down school segregation, black leaders turned their attention to the next challenge: getting African American students into white schools. In Little Rock, Arkansas, a small group of African American students were selected …
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- 9781433974830
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- 379 JEF
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