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Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet
This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people 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 hi...more
Hardcover, 110 pages
Published
August 12th 2009
by Chronicle Books
(first published 2009)
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I thought the stories that Harriet Rohmer compiled in this book were very inspiring and the message that one person can make a difference comes through loud and clear.
This book would be an excellent resource for teachers or anyone working with young children. Or just for the average person who feels slightly depressed or irritable and cranky from reading about corrupt CEOs and billion dollar bail-outs. This book could help restore your faith in mankind (for a moment or two anyway and then don't...more
This book would be an excellent resource for teachers or anyone working with young children. Or just for the average person who feels slightly depressed or irritable and cranky from reading about corrupt CEOs and billion dollar bail-outs. This book could help restore your faith in mankind (for a moment or two anyway and then don't...more
Heroes of the Environment is a books based off of true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet. It looks at 12 different people across the United States who are helping to protect the environment. Some of these heroes include a twelve –year old girl who found a way to get rid of a toxic chemical in the Ohio River, a teenage boy from Rhode Island who came up with e-waste recycling programs. Although all these people have come up with pretty extravagant ideas, this books still prov...more
interesting book that will appeal to kids - especially empowering them to take action locally that has a big impact. I liked that it was written in short chapters - I think I'd like to put a copy in the science classroom for school-wide DEAR time.
My one problem is that the writing didn't seem to carry me through - didn't make me want to turn the page to the next chapter. But it was full of interesting examples of people taking action to change their lives and their communities for the better, f...more
My one problem is that the writing didn't seem to carry me through - didn't make me want to turn the page to the next chapter. But it was full of interesting examples of people taking action to change their lives and their communities for the better, f...more
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This is great book for kids about how "regular" people, including kids, can make a difference as advocates and organizers on behalf of the environment. There are profiles of 12 activists some of whom quietly engaged in activities that made their communities healthier as well as others who publicly took on powerful special interests and challenged government action. This book inspires all who read it to become aware of what may be happening in their neighborhoods and to take action when communiti...more
This book focuses on twelve people, of different ages and backgrounds, who are working to save the environment. Each vignette gives some information about the motivation each person had to make a positive change in the environment. Some of the people profiled make simple changes in their own lives that then snowball into big changes in their community. Other people in the book, face bigger challenges but show incredible resourcefulness in their work to solve the environmental problem that faces...more
Great to read a book with stories about young people who are making a difference in caring for their environment, and about the "not so young people" that support their efforts.
read to 4/5s in January 2011
read chapter about Erica Gonzales, who was an activist against natural gas drilling off the California coast.
worked well with nonfiction unit
read chapter about Erica Gonzales, who was an activist against natural gas drilling off the California coast.
worked well with nonfiction unit
A short book about a topic I very rarely read about. Opens up my mind. Inspiring.
This is very uplifting and inspirational. One person can make a difference!
This book features people of all ages and backgrounds and their efforts to help the environment from establishing ways for city-dwellers to grow vegetables to installing solar panels on rural dwellings to starting a program for proper disposal of e-waste. This may not be a first choice for browsing material, but it would certainly make a good addition to classroom units on the environment and may inspire kids to look for ways in which they, too, can help the environment.
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Great with my 4th Grade class!
Very interesting and easy read (although at times quite serious) about those kids, underdogs, and other motivated folks invented ways of saving the environment.
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