Earth Day is April 22nd! Find out how the Earth Day holiday got started, all about how to reduce, reuse and recycle and about composting.
And here are some great chapter books to read:
Operation Redwood by Susannah T. French
In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down.
Hoot by Carol Hiassen
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.
Crunch by Leslie O'Connor
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Annie Glover is Not a Tree Lover by Darleen Beard
When her grandmother chains herself to the tree across from the school to save it from being cut down, fourth-grader Annie wants to die of humiliation, but when she dicovers the town's history, her attitude changes.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
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