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Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock-- a band of genetically modified children who can fly-- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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"Eyewitness Climate Change explains why human activities are making the planet heat up--and how we know for sure that this is the case. The book explores the effects of the changing climate, from more frequent hurricanes and wildfires to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. It shows how scientists predict how the climate will change in the future and what actions we can all take to combat climate change"--Provided by publisher.
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'Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift...
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Former vice president Al Gore helps children understand the underlying causes of the climate crisis that are threatening the global environment at the start of the twenty-first century and explains what children can do to help reverse the damage.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
"Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. The Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming and cooling periods that have occurred since the planet formed? The History Channel offers an in-depth study of the science behind this controversial hot-button issue" --dvd container....
15) Climate crisis
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discover how the world's climate is changing from the greenhouse effect and the ozone hole, and what we are doing to help our planet.
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Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book examines how storms fit in with the ever-changing weather machine, discussing how global warming may contribute to a change in climate and how weather patterns show the potential for increased hurricane activity.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book discusses the future state of earth's climate, explaining how earth receives radiation from the sun and the atmosphere and how earth may have major problems in the future because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore examines the climate crisis that is threatening the future of the planet, describes what the world's governments are doing to correct the problem, and explains why the problem should be taken more seriously.