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Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 6
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Princess Mia records in her diary her struggles with geometry, the expectations of being a college student's girlfriend, running for president of the student council, and a potential ecological disaster in her native land, Genovia.
2) Even and Odd
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sisters Even and Odd are trapped and unable to return home to the mundane world they live in, they, with the help of a unicorn named Jeremy, must stop a power-mad wizard from creating an ecological disaster.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each short chapter begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
New edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Tony Isidoro follows a trail of environmental clues to try and figure out what ecological imbalances might have caused the death of the town's best-known robin.
15) Frog in a bog
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Features animals, insects, and plants in a bog.
Series
Contributions in philosophy volume no. 8
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
xiv, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
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