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April 2008
RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books

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This year Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22nd, and our April bibliographies are featuring books about the environment, global warming, conservation, and various climates and habitats. Again, lesson plans for the juvenile titles can be found at ww.learningthroughlistening.org.

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Adult/Teen Titles 

HP390
Essential Muir
Muir, John. Heyday Books c2006.

HV564
Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Bloomsbury USA 2007, c2006. 1st U.S. ed.

HV347
An inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can
do about it
Gore, Albert. Rodale Press c2006.

HR487
Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
Louv, Richard. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006, c2005.

HV383
Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Lippson, Alice Jane. Johns Hopkins University Press c2006. 3rd ed.

HT493
The revenge of Gaia: earth's climate in crisis and the fate of humanity
Lovelock, James. Basic Books c2006.

HW380
Safe trip to Eden: 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Steinman, David. Thunder's Mouth Press c2007.

HZ463
Unbowed: a memoir
Maathai, Wangari. Anchor Books c2007. 1st Anchor Books ed.

HT358
What's toxic, what's not
Ginsberg, Gary. Berkley Books c2006. Berkley trade paperback ed.

HY798
The wild trees: a story of passion and daring
Preston, Richard. Random House c2007.

Juvenile Titles

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HW486
Afternoon on the Amazon
Osborne, Mary Pope. Random House c1995. Grades 1-4. RL: 2.1.

HJ734
Arctic tundra: life at the North Pole
Tocci, Salvatore. Franklin Watts c2005. A Franklin Watts Library ed. Grades 5-7.

HJ737
Coral reefs: life below the sea
Tocci, Salvatore. F. Watts c2004. A Franklin Watts Library ed. Grades 5-7.

HK636
Flush
Hiaasen, Carl. Alfred A. Knopf c2005. 1st ed. Grade 5 and up.

HJ739
Freshwater habitats: life in freshwater ecosystems
Toupin, Laurie. F. Watts c2004. A Franklin Watts Library ed. Grades 5-7.

HJ736
Marine habitats: life in saltwater
Tocci, Salvatore. Franklin Watts c2004. Grades 5-7.

MM352
The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo: an eco mystery
George, Jean Craighead. Harper Trophy 1993, c1992. 1st Harper Trophy ed. Grades
3-7.

MP220
The talking earth
George, Jean Craighead. HarperTrophy 1987, c1983. 1st Harper Trophy ed. Grade 6
and up.

HK332
There's an owl in the shower
George, Jean Craighead. HarperTrophy 1997, c1995. 1st Harper Trophy ed. Grades
2-5.

HJ657
What are food chains and webs?
Kalman, Bobbie. Crabtree Pub. Co. c1998. Grades 3-5.

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