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"The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a book of non-fiction stories that probes and witnesses the unique and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait. The measure of one's success here doesn't rely on status or income, but on the skillful handling of neighbours, the resourcefulness for survival, and the adaptation to both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and equally challenging human community...
4) Hoot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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Uplifting portraits of 12 young environmental activists who are stepping up to raise awareness and promote positive change explains how young people all over the world are launching initiatives to reforest the planet, eliminate single-use plastics, and protect pollinator insects.
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"Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins' father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He's a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So...
8) Flower power
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, Callie's mother has chained herself to a tree"--
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Orca wild volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Dogs are working with humans to find new ways to solve environmental problems and conserve wildlife, just a few of which are sniffing out invasive species and poisons, as well as identifying wildlife traffickers.
11) Flush
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.
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Island Press
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"We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators...
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Happy Yak
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Tells the fact-filled story of day in the life of a boy who is passionate about the environment. Pedro spends the day at his school eco club's forest cabin where he learns about electric cars, plants some vegetable seeds and encourages his friends to think of creative ways to recycle. Follow Pedro as he shares his love of the environment--learn about renewable energy, discover fun ways to save water and find out what else you can do to help protect...
20) Fear
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From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott... Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shootout that left his best friend dead--and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an illegal research program that could free him--and millions of others with post-traumatic stress disorder--from crippling memories. But when his doctor...
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