  Take Action: A Guide to Active Citizenship
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger
2009
Written by Canadian author, this book outlines how you can change the world. Authors Marc and Craig Kielburger are the founders of Leaders Today, an organization dedicated to helping young people realize their fullest potential and become socially involved. They provide easy-to-follow guidelines for making a difference in the lives of people all over the globe. By following the valuable tips, strategies, and examples in this book, you can get organized and start tackling important issues in your community, your school, your country, and around the world. From writing letters and public speaking to planning fundraisers, preparing petitions, and working with the media, Take Action!covers all the basics of how to become socially involved. |
The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer
by Sue Ann Alderson
2007
The Camosun Bog has Existed for 2000 years, but, like wetlands everywhere, it has been encroached on by an expanding urban landscape. In The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer, Sue Ann Alderson chronicles one child’s encounter with the bog and the Crazy Boggers who are working to protect and restore it. Full of humor and gentle irony, this is an intimate, child’s eye view of the natural world. The book is a warning but it is also a celebration of life and of our potential to make a difference. |
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd
by Karsten Heuer
2007
This 48-page picture book chronicling the 2003 epic journey through the wild country straddling the Canada-Alaska border by newlywed Albertans Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison will appeal to upper elementary or early junior high students. It documents the physical hardships, unexpected dangers and wondrous discoveries they encountered as they followed the 100,000 caribou over 1500 km on their annual trek to safe (but environmentally threatened) calving grounds by the Beaufort Sea.
Find out more about their trip and the caribou migration. |
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
by Karsten Heuer
2007
This 235-page narrative chronicling the 2003 epic journey through the wild country straddling the Canada-Alaska border by newlywed Albertans Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison will appeal to high school and advanced junior high students. It documents the physical hardships, unexpected dangers and wondrous discoveries they encountered as they followed the 100,000 caribou over 1500 km on their annual trek to safe (but environmentally threatened) calving grounds by the Beaufort Sea. At the same time, it delves into the authors’ motivations, physical and emotional tribulations, and the internal changes brought about as they had to move, act and think like caribou in order to keep up with the herd.
Find out more about their trip and the caribou migration. |
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
2002
In his first novel for a younger audience, Carl Hiaasen plunges readers right into the middle of an ecological mystery, made up of endangered miniature owls, the Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House scheduled to be built over their burrows, and the owls’ unlikely allies–three middle school kids determined to beat the adult system Sure to be a hit for middle school mystery fans. |
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
1877
The original title page for this classic novel read: “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, translated from the original equine, by Anna Sewell.” Black Beauty is considered the first novel in the genre of animal autobiography.
Sewell’s intention in writing the book was to promote the humane treatment of horses, and Black Beauty is credited with having the greatest effect on the treatment of animals of any publication in history. The book resulted in legislation protecting horses and a changed public attitude about animal pain and the traditional and fashionable practices that caused suffering for horses. Visist the enotes.com website for a
Summary and Study Guide.
The entire text can be found online for free at Project Gutenberg |
