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Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
2) Ill Wind
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Pub. Date
1995
Description
An oil company's attempt to clean up an oil spill using bacteria turns to disaster as the bacteria spread, eating every petroleum derivative in sight, including all plastics. As modern technology disintegrates, people are thrown back on their own devices for survival.
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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Quick response research report volume 131
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Examines the roles humans play in causing "natural disasters".
6) Good news
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American civilization as the tewentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wildernes - a pastoral economy - with skills aned savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnants of the power elite are girding their armed forces to reimpose the old order. This is a land of horses and...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This book takes young readers deep into the complicated and often destructive relationship between humans and nature. Man vs. Animal brings into sharp focus issues that include habitat destruction, climate change, land management and introduction of invasive species--while offering actionable solutions for each both now and in the future"--Provided by publisher.
9) Frozen
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Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, sixteen-year-old Nat yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, the Blue.
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"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast....
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Quick response research report volume 124
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Damage caused by Hurricane Floyd to water resource and tourism infrastructure on San Salvador appears to be moderate to minimal with greatest impact upon recreational tourism and ecotourism.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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In 2015, a flood of thick yellow sludge from a long-abandoned mine in Silverton, Colorado, made headlines as it flowed down the Animas River towards the Navajo Nation and the mighty Colorado River. Perhaps the most charismatic environmental disaster of our time, the Gold King Mine spill illustrates the devastating potential waiting in hundreds of abandoned mines throughout the Rocky Mountains. With disarming storytelling, award-winning journalist...
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Quick response research report volume 123
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Documents the impacts of Hurricane Mitch on the coastal population, local marine resources, and tourism infrastructure.
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Voyagers (Random House) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"The Alpha and Omega teams are in a race for the six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy, but the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy, and the teams are running out of time."--
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"NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Daily, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, CNN, Harper's Bazaar "A glorious book-an assured novel that's gorgeously told." -The New York Times Book Review "An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family." -CBS Sunday Morning "[An] absorbing novel...I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind." -The Washington...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to his current status...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how...
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Neptune Project volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
No one asked Nere if she wanted to become a science experiment--they just went right ahead and bio-engineered her lungs to be able to breath water as well as air. She and a group of other genetically modified kids find out they are part of "The Neptune Project," which aims at creating a new human society in the ocean, far away from the dangers of land. However, the dangers of the sea are just as deadly.