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1) Hoot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Bullying (Chapter Books)
Description
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
2) Flush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
4) Just a dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment.
8) Green boy
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When dragons cut down too many trees, blow out too much hot air, and do other environmental damage, the future looks grim, but other animals advise them on how to mend their ways and save the planet.
10) Big bear hug
Author
Series
Life in the wild volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A bear that loves to hug everything in the forest is compelled to try and stop the destruction of his homeland after seeing a human begin to cut down a tree.
11) Ballyhoo Bay
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
14) Kailey
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kailey launches an art protest to keep a developer from spoiling the cove and its tide pools that are special to her and her family and friends.
15) California Blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.
16) The family tree
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s, a man clearing land in a beautiful forest to build a home leaves one special tree, but many years later the tree is in trouble, and the man's great-great grandson enlists a host of animal friends to try to save it.
17) Vampire Island
Author
Series
Vampire Island volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Siblings Maddy, Lexie, and Hudson Livingstone, who are vampire-fruit bat hybrids, struggle to adjust to living as humans in New York City while maintaining their individual vampire strengths.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
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