2010 Earth Day Recommended Reading List

Grades PreK-3 · Grades 4-5 · Grades 6-8 · Grades 9-12

Elementary (Grades PreK-3)

• Celebrating Earth Day (Circle the Year With Holidays), Janet McDonnell and Diana Magnuson
• Clifford's Spring Clean-Up, Norman Bridwell
• The Lorax, Dr.Seuss
• The Earth and I, Frank Asch
• The Great Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry
• Let's Celebrate Earth Day, Peter Roop
• Recycle! : A Handbook for Kids, Gail Gibbons
• Just a Dream, Chris Van Allsburg
• Mr. Garbage, William H. Hooks
• Our Big Home, Linda Glaser
• Buffy the Burrowing Owl, Betty Gilbert

Elementary (Grades 4-5)

• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
• Every Day Is Earth Day: A Craft Book (Holiday Crafts for Kids), Kathy Ross
• Tanya's Big Green Dream, Linda Glaser
• Keeper of the Swamp, Ann Garrett and Karen Chandler
• Everything Kids' Environment Book, Sheri Amsel
• Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean, Elaine Landau
• The Bald Eagle- Endangered No More, Mac Priebe
• The Wolves Are Back, Jean Craighead George

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

• 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Recycle, Earthworks group
• John James Audubon: The Making of an American, Richard Rhodes
• Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, Tammy Horn
• Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
• The Life Cycle of Everyday Stuff, Mike Reeske and Shirley Watt Ireton
• Planet Earth, Kathleen Reilly
• Earth-Friendly Crafts for Kids: 50 Awesome Things to Make with Recycled Stuff, Heather Smith
• Forever Forest, Kristin Joy-Pratt Serafini
• Wangari’s Tree of Peace, Jeanette Winter
• A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, Pamela S. Turner
• When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

High School (Grades 9-12)

• Changes in Latitudes, Will Hobbs
• Flush, Carl Hiaasen
• Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S, Cynthia Barnett
• The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, Michael Grunwald
• Animals on the Edge: Science Races to Save Species Threatened with Extinction, Sandra Pobst
• Florida Magnificent Wilderness, James Valentine and D. Bruce Means
• The Everglades, River of Grass, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
• Pinhook, Janisse Ray
• A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith
• Landscaping for Florida’s Wildlife, Joe Schaefer and George Tanner
• Alligators, Sharks, and Panthers, Charles Sobczak