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Last dragon chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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.
4) Frozen
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Heart of dread volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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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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Quick response research report volume 131
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Examines the roles humans play in causing "natural disasters".
6) Rootless
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Rootless series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a world devastated by war and disease, a young tree builder searches for the last trees on earth.
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Pub. Date
2001
Description
In the classic tradition of "The End of Nature" and"Living Upstream" come 19 essays about the ravaged state of nature by one of our most wonderful and honest writers. With guts and razor-sharp wit, she sounds the alarm over the disconnection from nature that our consumer culture has created.
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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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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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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.
14) Stolen
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Heart of dread volume 2
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Nat risked her life to reunite with her drakon in the defense of the Blue, but Wes, seeking his sister Eliza, is forced to rejoin the military, placing him and Nat on opposite sides of a war that could destroy what is left of the world.
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Heart of dread volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Desperate to escape the dangers of the ruins of New Kandy, Nat and Wes must put their love to the ultimate test by chancing even more perilous surroundings in hopes of seeing their world reborn by saving the source of magic.
16) Migrations
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"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
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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...
18) 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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Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporitng human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El PatrÃçn, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.