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The Smash! Smash! Truck

The Smash! Smash! Truck

Aiden Potts
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
Random House, 2010   ISBN: 978-0385751438
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Mission: Save the Planet: Things You Can Do to Help Fight Global Warming!

Mission: Save the Planet: Things You Can Do to Help Fight Global Warming!

Sally Ride, Tam O’Shaughnessy
Illustrator:  Andrew Arnold 
Nonfiction
For ages 9 to 14
Roaring Brook Press, 2009   ISBN: 1596433795
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An Environmental Guide from A to Z

An Environmental Guide from A to Z

Tim Magner
Illustrator:  Aubri Vincent-Barwood 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Green Sugar Press, 2009   ISBN: 978-0982041765
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The Carbon Diaries 2017

The Carbon Diaries 2017

Saci Lloyd
Fiction
For ages 14 and up
Holiday House, 2010   ISBN: 978-0823422609
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Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future

Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future

Judy Molland
Nonfiction
For ages 6 and up
Free Spirit Publishing, 2009   ISBN: 1575423359
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

Donna Jo Napoli
Illustrator:  Kadir Nelson 
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Simon & Schuster, 2010   ISBN: 978-1416935056
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Big Earth, Little Me

Big Earth, Little Me

Thom Wiley
Illustrator:  Kate Endle 
Novelty Book
For ages 2 to 4
Scholastic, 2009   ISBN: 0545092256
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Dinosaur Woods: Can Seven Clever Critters Save Their Forest Home?

Dinosaur Woods: Can Seven Clever Critters Save Their Forest Home?

George McClements
Illustrator:  George McClements 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Beach Lane Books, 2009   ISBN: 978-1416986263
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Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Steven Kroll
Illustrator:  Steve Cox 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Marshall Cavendish, 2009   ISBN: 978-0761455707
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Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

Eileen Spinelli
, Illustrator:  Anne Kennedy 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Albert Whitman & Company, 2009   ISBN: 080755166X
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Milo and the Magical Stones

Milo and the Magical Stones

Marcus Pfister
Picture Book
5 to 8
NorthSouth, 2010   ISBN: 0735822530
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50 ways to save the earth

50 ways to save the earth

Anne Jankeliowitch
Photographer: Philippe Bourseiller
Nonfiction
For ages 8 to 12
Abrams, 2008   ISBN: 0810972395
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Judy Moody Saves the World

Judy Moody Saves the World

Megan McDonald
Illustrator:   Peter H. Reynolds 
Fiction  Series
For ages 6 to 9
Candlewick Press, 2002   ISBN: 0763620874
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S is for Save the Planet: A How-to-be Green Alphabet

S is for Save the Planet: A How-to-be Green Alphabet

Brad Herzog
Illustrator:  Linda Holt Ayriss 
Nonfiction Picture Book  Series
For ages 6 to 9
Sleeping Bear Press, 2009   ISBN: 1585364282
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Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever ways to reuse everyday items

Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever ways to reuse everyday items

Kathy Ross
Illustrator:  Celine Malepart 
Nonfiction Craft Book
For ages 8 to 12
Millbrook Press, 2009   ISBN: 0822590999
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True Green Kids: 100 Things you can do to save the planet

True Green Kids: 100 Things you can do to save the planet

Kim McKay, Jenny Bonnin
Nonfiction
For ages 10 and up
National Geographic, 2008   ISBN: 1426304420
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A Place for butterflies

A Place for butterflies

Melissa Stewart
Illustrator:  Higgins Bond 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 10
Peachtree Publishers, 2006   ISBN: 1561453579
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The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

Lynne Cherry
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Harcourt, 1990   ISBN: 0152026142
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Eco Babies Wear Green

Eco Babies Wear Green

Michelle Sinclair Colman
Illustrator:  Nathalie Dion 
Board Book
For ages 2 to 4
Tricycle Press, 2008   ISBN: 1582462534
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I wonder why the Dodo is dead and other questions about extinct and endangered animals

I wonder why the Dodo is dead and other questions about extinct and endangered animals

Andrew Charman
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Kingfisher, 2007   ISBN: 0753460955
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The Earth and I

The Earth and I

Frank Asch
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Harcourt, 1994   ISBN: 0152063951
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The Forever Forest: Kids Save a Tropical Treasure

The Forever Forest: Kids Save a Tropical Treasure

Kirstin Joy Pratt-Serafini, Rachel Crandell
Illustrator:  Kirstin Joy Pratt-Serafini 
Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Dawn Publications, 2008   ISBN: 1584691026
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Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson

Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson

Amy Ehrlich
Illustrator:  Wendell Minor 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Harcourt, 2003   ISBN: 0152063242
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The Lorax

The Lorax

Dr. Seuss
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Random House, 1999   ISBN: 0394823370
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Someday a Tree

Someday a Tree

Eve Bunting
Illustrator:  Ronald Himler 
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
Clarion, 1996   ISBN: 978-0395764787
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Our Big Home: An Earth Poem

Our Big Home: An Earth Poem

Linda Glaser
Illustrator:  Elisa Kleven 
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
Lerner, 2002   ISBN: 978-0761317760
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Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

David McLimans
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Walker, 2006   ISBN: 978-0802795632
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Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth

Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth

Lee Welles
Illustrator:  Ann Hameister 
Fiction  Series
For ages 9 to 12
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006   ISBN: 1933609001
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Uno's Garden

Uno's Garden

Graeme Base
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
Abrams, 2006   ISBN: 0810954737
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John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist

John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist

Kathryn Lasky
Illustrator:  Stan Fellows 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 11
Candlewick Press, 2006   ISBN: 978-0763619572
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Planet Patrol: A Kid’s Action guide to Earth Care

Planet Patrol: A Kid’s Action guide to Earth Care

Marybeth Lorbiecki
Illustrator:  Nancy Meyers 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 8 to 12
Two-Can Publishing, 2005   ISBN: 978-1587285141
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Re-Cycles

Re-Cycles

Michael Elsohn Ross
Illustrator:  Gustav Moore 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Lerner, 2003   ISBN: 978-0761319498
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I Love Our Earth

I Love Our Earth

Michael R. Sampson, Bill Martin Jr.
Photographer: Dan Lipow
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 3 to 6
Charlesbridge, 2006   ISBN: 978-1580891066
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Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America

Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America

Kathi Appelt
Illustrator:  Joy Fisher Hein 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
HarperCollins, 2005   ISBN: 978-0060011079
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The Trouble with Henry: A Tale of Walden Pond

The Trouble with Henry: A Tale of Walden Pond

Deborah O'Neal, Angela Westengard
Illustrator:  S.D. Schindler 
Historical Fiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 9
Candlewick Press, 2005   ISBN: 978-0763618285
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Moondog

Moondog

John A. Rowe
Picture Book
For ages 3 to 5
Penguin, 2005   ISBN: 0698400313
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The Paper Bag Prince

The Paper Bag Prince

Colin Thompson
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
Random House UK, 1994   ISBN: 978-0099933205
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The Blue and green ark: An alphabet for the planet

The Blue and green ark: An alphabet for the planet

Brian Patten
Illustrator:  Eleven notable children's book illu 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Scholastic, 2000   ISBN: 0439079691
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Miss Rumphius

Miss Rumphius

Barbara Cooney
Picture Book
For ages 4 and up
Penguin, 1985   ISBN: 978-0140505399
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River

River

Debby Atwell
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
Houghton Mifflin, 2004   ISBN: 978-0618439522
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The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle

The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle

Lynne Cherry
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004   ISBN: 978-0374364823
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Turtle Bay

Turtle Bay

Saviour Pirotta
Illustrator:  Nilesh Mistry 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Frances Lincoln UK, 1998   ISBN: 978-0711211681
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Eye of the Wolf

Eye of the Wolf

Daniel Pennac
Illustrator:  Max Grafe 
Fiction
For ages 12 and up
Candlewick Press, 2003   ISBN: 978-0763618964
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The Valley of Secrets

The Valley of Secrets

Charmian Hussey
Illustrator:  Christopher Crump 
Fiction
For ages 12 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2005   ISBN: 978-0689878626
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The Carbon Diaries 2015

The Carbon Diaries 2015

Saci Lloyd
Fiction
For ages 14 and up
Holiday House, 2009   ISBN: 0823421902
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A North America Rain Forest Scrapbook

A North America Rain Forest Scrapbook

Virginia Wright-Frierson
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 10
Walker, 2003   ISBN: 978-0802776518
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Abigale the Happy Whale

Abigale the Happy Whale

Peter Farrelly
Illustrator:  Jamie Rama 
Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Little Brown, 2006   ISBN: 978-0316011907
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Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World

Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World

Stephen W. Kress, Pete Salmansohn
Nonfiction
For ages 10 to 13
Tilbury House, 2002   ISBN: 978-0884482376
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Camping with the president

Camping with the president

Ginger Wadsworth
Illustrator:  Karen Dugan 
Non-Fiction Picture Book
For ages 8 to 12
Boyds Mills Press, 2009   ISBN: 1590784979
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