California Blue by David Klass(1994)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.
Flush by Carl Hiaasen(2005)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.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen(2002)Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. From the bestselling mystery novelish comes this story for younger readers. New to Florida, Roy is on the school bus when he spots the running boy--running away from the bus, carrying no books or wearing no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boy's trail, which leads him to potty-trained alligators, a fake-fart champion, and a renegade eco-avenger.
Kite by Melvin Burgess(2000)
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WHAT COULD BE MORE PRECIOUS to a boy who collects birds' eggs than one from a species of which there are only twenty-five known to exist in the entire country? For Taylor, the temptation to rob the nest of a pair of severely endangered red kites becomes insurmountable when landowner Reg Harris actually asks him to do it, despite the fact that it is illegal. Taylor's dad works for Harris as his gamekeeper, raising pheasants and also protecting them from "vermin" -- crows, foxes, weasels, and now the rare kites -- and sometimes Taylor is enlisted for odd jobs on the property. After stealing the eggs, Taylor tells Harris he's gotten rid of the incriminating evidence, but secretly he has kept it. In trying to hollow out the eggs for his collection, Harris discovers during two gruesome attempts that the birds' embryos are too fully developed to blow out without damaging the shells. One egg is left, and Taylor, feeling horribly guilty, hides it in the chicken coop, where it soon hatches. With his friend Alan, Taylor raises the kite with the hope of setting it free, but the approaching hunting season keeps the bird's survival in serious jeopardy.
Bookletters
Saving the Planet & Stuff by Gail Gauthier(2003)After losing his summer job with his uncle, sixteen-year-old Michael agrees to go to work for an environmentalist magazine in Vermont run by friends of his grandparents.
Siberia : a novel by Ann Halam(2005)After spending two years at a prison school, thirteen-year-old Sloe sets off on a trek across frozen wastelands, tending to the secret "seeds" of wild animals her mother left in her care, trying to reach a new life for all of them.
Skullduggery by Pete Hautman(2007)During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery by Alan Gratz(2007)In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
Teen, Inc. by Stefan Petrucha(2007)Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.
