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61) Solar Energy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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The sun, responsible for life on our planet, is a valuable clean energy source that can lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. With color photos, a glossary, and simple text, this book explains how solar panels work, what passive solar power is, and how the sun can be used to make electricity. Young readers will be excited to learn more about renewable energy.
62) Fossil Fuels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Readers may have heard the term "fossil fuels," but they may not know exactly what they are. Oil, natural gas, and coal are fossil fuels, but they are not clean or renewable sources of energy. This book takes a look at the history of fossil fuels and how we burn them to make heat and electricity as well as what can be done to decrease our use of these fuels and why this change is important. Color photos, a glossary, a timeline, and easy-to-read text...
63) Hydropower
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Anyone who has been walloped by a large ocean wave or has watched water tumble down a tall waterfall knows the power of water. Readers will learn about hydropower throughout history and find out about the water cycle. Reading about how this clean energy source is used today and what the future of hydropower may look like will educate young readers about renewable energy fueled by water. Color photographs and a glossary are also included.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 9
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English
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Join Carl Safina to find signs that the famous codfish of New England just might, indeed, be coming back.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 8
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Learn how Trinidad transformed leatherback turtles from shark bait to tourist attraction.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 10
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Learn how lionfish are damaging native species in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast.
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Save the universe! Save your dogs! Take your chair to the streets and follow Trover throughout the cosmos as you battle your way through hordes of clones on your quest to stop Glorkon! This freaky and awesome art book is the perfect companion to Squanch Games's first full length game! Feast your eye holes on page after page of crazy concept art and intimate commentary!
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How could I explain war to someone who had only ever known peace? Where would I even begin? The world Lena lives in has been at war for five years now and heading towards certain destruction. It's all thanks to Damian Judeson, known as the Destroyer: a General who wages war over the entire continent. If he isn't stopped, prophecy says he will rip the fabric of magic apart, and then the world will cease to exist. Lena's special ability is being able...
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 3
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Learn how fishermen in Mexico stopped hunting gray whales and developed a lucrative whale-watching co-op.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 7
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Examine the major project, led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, restoring the Nisqually River.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 2
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Find out why Carl Safina believes Islam could be a key to ocean conservation in large parts of the world.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 5
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Join Carl Safina as he goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 1
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See how sharks can thrive while local people still can fish in Belize.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 6
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Examine the major project, led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, restoring the Nisqually River.
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Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina volume 4
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Join Carl Safina as he goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners.
76) Copper Cobra
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Two hip-hop-loving best friends work a salmon season in Alaska and, with the help of a humorous, sexy social-media vlogger and a 106-year-old pot-smoking resort matron, uncover a back-room side deal and unscrupulous dealings of a sinister lobbyist to thwart the poisonous acid runoff of an evil mine to save the largest wild salmon run in the world.
Copper Cobra is Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length...
77) Plastic Plankton
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Volcanoes and tropical waterfalls on the Big Island of Hawaii are the dramatic, stunning backdrop as Tilly trains for the Kona Ironman for an environmental cause. Concerned about plastic pollution, her estranged brother, Moore, and his quirky, stoner hip hop-loving best friend, Spit, set sail to the plastic scoop up machine at the Great Plastic Garbage Patch off the coast of Hawaii. Nemesis SodaCo has falsified the machine's results, and it takes...
78) Planeteering
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Planeteering is a novella-rama length (short novel) environmental climate adventure (cli fi), filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, adventure, racing, and love.
On a global One More Year tour of the greenest countries to reduce overconsumption, Tilly and Camas discover orienteering. Between running through forests and over streams and mountains, an Icelandic sage suggests Tilly...
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Another roll of the dice
Big news, fair readers! Bayside High's favorite It Girl is back. Would you have bet Carissa Blackwell would ever return? Ten years ago, she crushed Jasper Dumont's heart under her Jimmy Choos and left town for a bigger, better life. Her return raises one question: What is she running from (or is it to) now?
Perhaps Jasper knows? One look at Carissa and he fell in the bay! (Rich, single and devastatingly handsome, Jasper's...
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Saved by the blog!
This just in, fair readers! Chic and stunning, that gorgeous new woman about town is none other than our very own little Ellie-now Elle-Owens. She's a far cry from the frumpy, bookish student we used to know, but then, living in Italy will do that to a girl! Still, this blogger can't forget the infamous video that caused her to leave!
Apparently Miss Elle has been spotted with yummy contractor Cam Dumont...but we thought her heart...
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