Picture Books
I Stink! by Kate McMullan. A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apples to zucchini.
One Grain of Sand: A Lullaby by Pete Seeger. A lullaby celebrates the fragility of the environment.
Recycle Every Day! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. Minna's family spends a week practicing various kinds of recycling.
River by Debby Atwell. A river gradually becomes depleted as people use its resources to build cities, transport goods and handle sewage.
Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle by Lynne Cherry. Threatened by hurricanes and human destruction, the mangrove trees of the planet are endangered.
This is the Rain by Lola Schaefer. Cumulative text describes how water falls from the clouds as rain and eventually makes its way to the sea.
Tin Forest by Helen Ward. An old man's dreams transform a garbage dump into a forest full of life.
What Planet are you from Clarice Bean? By Lauren Child. Clarice and her family become eco-warriors to save a tree on their street.
Fiction
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick. Global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands.
Flush by Carl Hiaasen. 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.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. Roy helps another boy save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Judy Moody Saves the World by Megan McDonald. Judy inspires her third-grade class to undertake an award-winning conservation project.
Julie's Wolf Pack by Jean Craighead George. Famine and disease threaten a wolf pack.
Over the Edge by Gloria Skurzynski. A scientist studies condors in the Grand Canyon .
Riding the Flume by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch. Francie is determined to save a large sequoia tree from lumbermen.
Zucchini Out West by Barbara Dana. Billy suspects that his pet ferret might be a black-footed ferret, an endangered species.
Non-Fiction: General Works
Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean by Elaine Landau jGE195.5 .L36 2002
Earth Watch by David Burnie jGE115 .B87 2001
Environment by Michael Allaby jQH541.14 .A46 2000
Environmental Movement: From Its Roots to the Challenges of a New Century by Laurence Pringle jGE195.5 .P76 2000
Galapagos Islands : Nature's Delicate Balance at Risk by Linda Tagliaferro jQL345 .G2 T34 2001
Greenpeace by Melanie Ostopowich jTD169 .O84 2003
Handful of Dirt by Raymond Bial jS591.3 .B53 2000
If I Ran the Rainforest by Bonnie Worth jQH541.5.R27 W67 2003
Kid's Guide to Nature Adventures by Joe Rhatigan jQH81 .R44 2003
Let's Celebrate Earth Day by Connie Roop jGE195.5 .R66 2001
Love Canal : Toxic Waste Tragedy by Victoria Sherrow jTD181 .N72 .N5137 2001
M is for Majestic: a National Parks Alphabet by David Domeniconi jSB482 .A4 D66 2003
Re-cycles by Michael Elsohn Ross jS592.2 .R66 2002
Resources: Nature's Riches by Roy Gallant jHG85 .G35 2003
Water Cycle by Trudi Strain Trueit jGB848 .T78 2002
Biomes
DK Guide to the Oceans by Francis Dipper j GC21.5 .D555 2002
Glow in the Dark Book of Ocean Creatures by Nicholas Harris
jQL122.2 .H3667 2002
Journey into the Rainforest by Tim Knight jQH86 .K635 2001
Lands of Grass by Allan Fowler jQH541.5 .P7 F68 2000
Rain Forest by Elinor Greenwood jQH86 .G734 2001
Tundra by Susan Gray jQH541.5 .T8 G73 2001
Walk in the Boreal Forest by Rebecca L. Johnson jQH541.5.T3 J65 2001
Walk in the Deciduous Forest by Rebecca L. Johnson jQH541.5.F6 J63 2001
Wetlands by Shirley W. Gray jQH541.5.M3 G73 2001
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