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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.
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Quick response research report volume 131
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Examines the roles humans play in causing "natural disasters".
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Quick response research report volume 124
Pub. Date
[2000]
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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]
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Documents the impacts of Hurricane Mitch on the coastal population, local marine resources, and tourism infrastructure.
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"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
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Neptune Project volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
10) 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,...
11) Stolen
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Heart of dread volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
12) Golden
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Heart of dread volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Nat's bond to her drakon is fraying quickly, and Wes is at death's door after trying to save his sister, Eliza. Desperate to escape New Kandy, Wes accepts help from a strange voice out of the Blue, leading Nat and the crew into even more dangerous surroundings, where their only chance lies with Nat and her quest to replace the old world with a new one.
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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...
15) 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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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.
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Willa of the Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people - and their greatest enemy.To Willa, a young night-spirit, humans are the murderers of trees. She's been taught to despise them and steal from them. She's her clan's best thief, creeping into the log cabins of...
19) Raiders' ransom
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
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"In this book, Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever - in many cases animals, insects, and plants we have only just discovered, and whose potential to nourish us, protect us, and cure our illnesses is immeasurable - and what we can do to save them. In the process, he explores the ethical and religious bases of the conservation movement and deflates the myth that environmental policy is antithetical to economic...