There are 14 records in the environment bibliography.
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| Caduto, Michael, Joseph Bruchac and John Fadden. Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997. |
This selection of traditional tales from various Indian peoples is accompanied by instructions for related activities dealing with aspects of the environment. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, Teacher's Resource |
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| Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring (40th Anniversary Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. |
Originally released in 1962, Carson's classic offered the first look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. |
9th - 12th Grade |
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| Cherry, Lynne. River Ran Wild: An Environmental History, A. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. |
This environmental history of the Nashua River covers its discovery by Indians, the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution, and the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| George, Jean Craighead. Who Really Killed Cock Robin? An Ecological Mystery. San Diego: Harper Collins, 1991. |
In this fiction book, 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. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
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| Hoose, Phillip. Thr Race to Save the Lord God Bird. NY: Farrar, Straus, 2004. |
Hoose tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade |
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| Johnson, D.B.. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. |
While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, a bear, modeled on a young Henry Thoreau, walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Lasky, Kathryn. She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head. NY: Hyperion, 1995. |
This is a fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a late nineteenth-century Society that would endure and have impact on the bird-protection movement. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Leopold, Aldo. Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation, A. NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. |
Published in 1949 shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. This edition includes photographs by Michael Sewell and an introduction by Kenneth Brower. |
9th - 12th Grade, General Reference |
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| MacGill-Callahan, Sheila. And Still the Turtle Watched. NY: Puffin Pied Piper, 1991. |
A turtle carved in rock on a bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| McCully, Emily. Squirrel and John Muir. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. |
In the early 1900s, a little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, who later became a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Righter, Robert W.. Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, The. NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. |
Righter tells the epic story of the first major environmental battle of the twentieth century. |
9th - 12th Grade, General Reference |
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| Schnetzler, Pattie. Earth Day Birthday. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2003. |
Set to the familiar music of The Twelve Days of Christmas, verses describe different animals that illustrate the wonders of the wild world. Includes a factual section about Earth Day and ways to celebrate it. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Seuss, Dr.. Lorax, The. NY: Random House, 1971. |
Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Sussman, Art. Dr. Art's Guide to Planet Earth: For Earthlings Ages 12-20. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2000. |
Presents easy-to-understand principles that explain how the Earth works and what we can do to restore the planet, globally and locally. |
6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
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