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Environmental Issues

	*The Black Sheep* Author: Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout Summary: Fifteen-year-old Kendra Bishop quickly regrets her rash decision to write to a new reality television show when she finds herself in Monterey, California, living with a large family of activists rather than in a Manhattan apartment with her uptight, money-oriented parents.
	*California Blue* Author: David Klass Summary: When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.
	*The Dead & the Gone* Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
	*The Devil's Breath* Author: David Gilman Summary: When his father goes missing and he is almost killed at his boarding school in England, Max travels to the wilderness of Namibia to try to find him where he soon learns about his father's work to stop Shaka Chang and his evil plot for ecological destruction.
	*Firestorm* Author: David Klass Summary: After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
	*Flash Point* Author: Sneed B. Collard, III Summary: After school Luther works part-time with a vet who rescues and retrains birds of prey but when he questions many of the community's beliefs about land use, he risks alienation from his friends and family.
	*Flush* Author: Carl Hiaasen Summary: 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.
	*Hurricane Song* Author: Paul Volponi Summary: High school sophomore Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
	*Life as We Knew It* Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
	*Madapple* Author: Christina Meldrum Summary: A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
	*Open Season* Author: C.J. Box Summary: As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.
	*Peak* Author: Roland Smith Summary: A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
	*Sick Puppy: a novel* Author: Carl Hiaasen Summary: When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his Range Rover is about to be car-jacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance on his mind. After watching Stoat dump a trail of fast food litter out the window, Twilly decided to teach him a lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of dung beetles. But Twilly discovers that Stoat is one of Florida's most powerful political fixers, whose latest project is the "malling" of a pristine Gulf Coast island. Dognapping eco-terrorists, bogus big-game hunters, a Republicans-only hooker, an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to nature, thousands of singing toads and a Labrador retriever are all characters in this story with an ecological plea.
	*They Came From Below* Author: Blake Nelson Summary: While vacationing on Cape Cod, best friends Emily, age sixteen, and Reese, seventeen, meet Steve and Dave, who seem too good to be true, and whose presence turns out to be related to a dire threat of global pollution.
	*Water Witches* Author: Chris Bohjalian Summary: As Vermont faces its worst drought in memory, a cynical lawyer representing a ski resort that wants to draw water from a local river is challenged by a female shaman who can find water beneath the earth.
	*The White Darkness* Author: Geraldine McCaughrean Summary: When her uncle takes her on a dream trip to the Antarctic wilderness, Sym's obsession with Captain Oates and the doomed expedition becomes a reality as she herself is soon in a fight for her life in some the harshest terrain on the planet.

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