LMS Environmental Fiction

Book ListDon't blow it - good planets are hard to find.

~Quoted in Time

Table of Contents

Land……………………………………….3Water……………………………………..4Air…………………………………………..5Animals………………………………..6-9

Human Population...................10

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Land

Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. After moving to a housing development in Florida citrus farmland, twelve year old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged hisEyesight (PB FIC BLO).

Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. Valley of Death. What's causing the deaths of desert bighorn sheep in Death Valley National Park? Wildlife veterinarian Olivia Landon has been called in to investigate. The plot thickens when her daughter, Ashley, is kidnapped by militants who mistake her for Leesa, a mysterious girl temporarily in the Landons' care. Tension builds to a spine-chilling climax when a showdown in the desert leads the family to a missile testing site and the key to what is killing the sheep (FIC SKU).

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Water

Hiaasen, Carl. Flush. 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. (FIC HIA)

Oppel, Kenneth. Dead Water Zone. Muscular sixteen-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it. (FIC OPP)

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Air

Petrucha, Stefan. Teen, Inc. Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp. since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.

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Amimals

George, Jean Craighead. Who really killed Cock Robin? : an ecological mystery. Eighth-grader Tony Isidoro follows a trail of environmental clues to try and figure out what ecological imbalances might have caused the death of the town's best-known robin. (FIC GEO)

George, Jean Craighead. Frightful’s Mountain. As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance. (PB GEO)

George, Jean Craighead. Hook a fish, catch a mountain. After catching a cutthroat, a vanishing species of fish in the Snake River, Spinner Shafter and her cousin Alligator do some ecological detecting to determine where the fish came from and how he had survived. (FIC GEO)

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Animals (cont.)George, Jean Craighead. Julie. When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man. (PB GEO)

George, Jean Craighead. Julie’s Wolf Pack. Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. (FIC GEO)

Gleitzman, Morris. Toad Rage. Determined to understand why humans hate cane toads and toimprove relations between the species, Limpy embarks on a dangerous trek from his swamp to the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. (FIC GLE)

Gleitzman, Morris. Toad Heaven. Despite the opposition of Ancient Eric and Malcolm, Limpy goes on a quest to find a place where cane toads can be safe from humans and live in harmony. (PB FIC GLE)

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Animals (cont.)Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. 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. (FIC HIA)

Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. Buried Alive. While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche (FIC SKU).

Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. Running Scared. While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves (FIC SKU).

Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. Out of the Deep. Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park (FIC SKU).

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Animals (cont.)Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. Escape From Fear. The Landons are in Virgin Islands National Park to help figure out what is destroying the coral reefs and causing the hawksbill sea turtle to disappear. Jack and Ashley become involved with Forrest Winthrop IV, the adopted son of a U.S. diplomat. Why is he so anxious to save an island woman named Cimmaron, and what secret do they share? The action builds to a dramatic climax at Jumbie Bay, where a full moon finally reveals all. (FIC SKU).

Skurzynski, Gloria and Alane Ferguson. The Hunted. The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy. (FIC SKU).

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Human Population

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the Hidden; book 1. (Shadow Children series of 7 books) In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. (FIC HAD)

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