The Resource Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
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The item Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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The item Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste recycling programs. Plenty of photographs and illustrations bring each compelling story vividly to life
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 109 pages
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- Contents
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- Raising food in the city: Will Allen, founder, Growing Power Community Food Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Discovering a new way to clean polluted water: Kelydra Welcker, student chemist, environmental scientist, and inventor, Parkersburg, West Virginia
- Turning waste into good business and good jobs: Omar Freilla, founder, ReBuilders Souce, The South Bronx, New York City
- Bringing solar power to Indian country: Debby Tewa, solar electrician, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona
- Speaking out to a big oil company: Margie Richard, activist and former middle school teacher, Old Diamond, Louisiana
- Inventing eco-machines: John Todd, inventor, engineer, and designer, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
- Recycling electronic waste: Alex Lin, teenager who helped write Rhode Island's e-waste law, Westerly, Rhode Island
- Saving West Virginia's oldest mountains: Julia "Judy" Bonds, community activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, West Virginia
- Fighting the enemies of the environment: El Hijo del Santo ("Son of the Saint"), champion masked wrestler, Mexico City, Mexico
- Protecting Louisiana wetlands: Barry Guillot, middle school science teacher, Destrehan, Louisiana
- Saving the Porcupine River caribou: Sarah James, spokesperson, Gwich'in Indian people of Alaska and Canada, Arctic Village, Alaska
- Safeguarding the California coast: Erica Fernandez, student and environmental activist, Oxnard, California
- How you can get involved
- Isbn
- 9780811867795
- Label
- Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet
- Title
- Heroes of the environment
- Title remainder
- true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet
- Statement of responsibility
- by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste recycling programs. Plenty of photographs and illustrations bring each compelling story vividly to life
- Awards note
- A Junior Library Guild selection
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rohmer, Harriet
- Dewey number
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- 333.72092/2
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Lexile: 1070
- Interest level
- MG
- LC call number
- GE55
- LC item number
- .R64 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Reading level
- 7.4
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- McLaughlin, Julie
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Environmentalists
- Environmentalists
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Raising food in the city: Will Allen, founder, Growing Power Community Food Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Discovering a new way to clean polluted water: Kelydra Welcker, student chemist, environmental scientist, and inventor, Parkersburg, West Virginia -- Turning waste into good business and good jobs: Omar Freilla, founder, ReBuilders Souce, The South Bronx, New York City -- Bringing solar power to Indian country: Debby Tewa, solar electrician, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Speaking out to a big oil company: Margie Richard, activist and former middle school teacher, Old Diamond, Louisiana -- Inventing eco-machines: John Todd, inventor, engineer, and designer, Woods Hole, Massachusetts -- Recycling electronic waste: Alex Lin, teenager who helped write Rhode Island's e-waste law, Westerly, Rhode Island -- Saving West Virginia's oldest mountains: Julia "Judy" Bonds, community activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, West Virginia -- Fighting the enemies of the environment: El Hijo del Santo ("Son of the Saint"), champion masked wrestler, Mexico City, Mexico -- Protecting Louisiana wetlands: Barry Guillot, middle school science teacher, Destrehan, Louisiana -- Saving the Porcupine River caribou: Sarah James, spokesperson, Gwich'in Indian people of Alaska and Canada, Arctic Village, Alaska -- Safeguarding the California coast: Erica Fernandez, student and environmental activist, Oxnard, California -- How you can get involved
- Control code
- ocn310224810
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 109 pages
- Isbn
- 9780811867795
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2009004366
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- Label
- Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet, by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Raising food in the city: Will Allen, founder, Growing Power Community Food Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Discovering a new way to clean polluted water: Kelydra Welcker, student chemist, environmental scientist, and inventor, Parkersburg, West Virginia -- Turning waste into good business and good jobs: Omar Freilla, founder, ReBuilders Souce, The South Bronx, New York City -- Bringing solar power to Indian country: Debby Tewa, solar electrician, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Speaking out to a big oil company: Margie Richard, activist and former middle school teacher, Old Diamond, Louisiana -- Inventing eco-machines: John Todd, inventor, engineer, and designer, Woods Hole, Massachusetts -- Recycling electronic waste: Alex Lin, teenager who helped write Rhode Island's e-waste law, Westerly, Rhode Island -- Saving West Virginia's oldest mountains: Julia "Judy" Bonds, community activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, West Virginia -- Fighting the enemies of the environment: El Hijo del Santo ("Son of the Saint"), champion masked wrestler, Mexico City, Mexico -- Protecting Louisiana wetlands: Barry Guillot, middle school science teacher, Destrehan, Louisiana -- Saving the Porcupine River caribou: Sarah James, spokesperson, Gwich'in Indian people of Alaska and Canada, Arctic Village, Alaska -- Safeguarding the California coast: Erica Fernandez, student and environmental activist, Oxnard, California -- How you can get involved
- Control code
- ocn310224810
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 109 pages
- Isbn
- 9780811867795
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2009004366
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
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