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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at different types of frogs and the ecosystems in which they live, and discusses how human activity affects their survival.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents information about fish, describing their physical characteristics and discussing different ways in which they are threatened, from the dumping of chemicals into waterways, to overfishing, to deforestation, and what scientists have done to help.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition ; First Little Simon paperback edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unless Amy and her friends in the Critter Club can come up with an alternative plan, new stores are going to be built on the town's park, endangering the lives of the plants and animals living there.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy who loves the countryside determines to find the source of the black cloud that hovers above it.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
52 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.
8) Pond
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--
9) Everglades
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the Florida Everglades, the evolution of this unique area, and the impact humans have had on its once-abundant life forms.
11) Desert elephants
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Each year the desert elephants of Mali, West Africa, travel a 300-mile path to search for water. They peacefully pass through the lands of the Tuareg, Dogon, and Fulani people while following the longest migration route of any elephant in the world. This insightful story with bold, dramatic illustrations shows how people work together to preserve the delicate balance of life in the desert and protect these magnificent elephants.
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