Cleaning Up the Earth

Cleaning Up the Earth
Author: Precious McKenzie
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1625137249

Updated for 2020, young readers explore various forms of pollution and how people are cleaning up the environment.

Cleaning Up the Earth

Cleaning Up the Earth
Author: Precious McKenzie
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615358765

Young readers explore various forms of pollution and how people are cleaning up the environment.

The Big Beach Cleanup

The Big Beach Cleanup
Author: Charlotte Offsay
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807508101

When it comes to the environment, a community must work together. Cora is excited to enter the local sandcastle-building contest—until the contest is canceled due to litter at the beach. Determined to help save their favorite place, Cora and Mama get to work picking up the single-use plastics that have washed onto the shore. It will take more than four hands to clean up the beach, but Cora is just getting started.

Earth Detox

Earth Detox
Author: Julian Cribb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108931081

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

Earth Day

Earth Day
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Earth Day
ISBN: 9780766017788

Discusses the origins of Earth Day, its history, and how it is observed in the United States today.

Cleaning Up Litter

Cleaning Up Litter
Author: Charlotte Guillain
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781432908911

This series introduces very young children to the concept of caring for the environment in an attractive and accessible way. Based on children's real-life experiences, the books focus on things children can do to help the environment and keep the world around us clean. In this book, children learn what litter is, how it can harm the environment, and what they can do to help clean up litter.

Save Our Planet

Save Our Planet
Author: Diane Maceachern
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1991-12-16
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780440294030

Even though you are just one person who may have never done anything extraordinary before, you can change the world. Did you know: * Every day the Earth receives enough solar energy to heat every home in the world for one year--free. * It takes twenty trees to keep one baby in disposable diapers for two years. * Of the billion pounds of pesticides used each year in the U.S., less than one percent reaches a pest. * The average American throws out their own weight in packaging every month. * If your office recycled one ton of the paper it uses, you'd be saving seventeen trees and keeping sixty pounds of air pollution out of the sky. There are hundreds of tips in this book, but don't let the numbers throw you. Even if you follow just one or two of the suggestions provided, tangible progress will be made towards restoring vitality to the Earth.

Filling the Earth with Trash

Filling the Earth with Trash
Author: Jeanne Sturm
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615358773

Young readers will discover what happens to trash in a landfill.

Design for a Livable Planet

Design for a Livable Planet
Author: Jon Naar
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1990
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This book explains in straightforward language the causes and effects of environmental pollution AND offers SOLUTIONS -- practical staps you can take to begin cleaning up and prevent further damage.

How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax (Dr. Seuss)

How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
Author: Tish Rabe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0375869778

The star of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss makes his Step into Reading debut in this rhymed Step 3 reader that offers kids easy suggestions for going green, a perfect real aloud for Earth Day! After explaining how the trash in a wastbasket ultimately ends up in a landfill or incinerator, the Lorax suggests realistic ways children can reduce waste, such as by carrying a lunch box, donating old clothes and toys, sharing magazines with friends, recycling cans and bottles, and using rechargeable batteries. He also explains how they can save energy around the home by turning off lights, taking shorter showers, donning sweaters to stay warm, and much, much more. All in all, this is a great introduction to helping the Earth and helping kids step into reading! Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics—for children who are ready to read on their own.