Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees -- and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well. Kids will view their backyards and parks in a whole new light after going on an arboreal eco-tour...

This book describes how pollution affects the land, water, and air, and discusses ways in which everyone can help with global conservation.

Hinton and Green reflect on the endeavors of the Corp in the Four Corners area of the southwest, focusing on its accomplishments on national government land.

Features environmental activities and projects in such areas as water pollution, recycling, acid rain, and wildlife gardens.

Discusses the need to conserve the rain forests because of their wealth of plant and animal life, effect on weather, and importance to people throughout the world.

"An adaptation of Douglas Tallamy's book Nature's Best Hope, but written for a middle school level readership"-- Provided by publisher.

Describes the characteristics of a temperate forest and examines the reasons these forests are at risk and what can be done to save them.

While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.

When Agatha buys a new feather bed and six angry naked geese show up to get their feathers back, the incident reminds her to think about where things come from.

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve a field from developers.