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Wilderness Wars
Wilderness Wars

by Barbara Henderson

“We are destroying the habitats—the homes—of all these plants and animals … Nature, the wilderness, is fighting back.”

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The Unicorn Rescue Society, The Creature of the Pines (Book 1)

by Adam Gidwitz

“Brand-new friend. Terrifying teacher. Mythical animal. Breaking and entering. First day at a new school.”

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The Unicorn Rescue Society, The Basque Dragon (Book 2)

by Adam Gidwitz, Jesse Casey

“I believe that someday we will be able to undo all the damage the Schmoke brothers have done to the world and its creatures.”

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The Last Panther

by Todd Mitchell

“Kiri scanned the forest, spotting the panther less than a stone’s throw from where she crouched. Moonlight glinted off the panther’s fiery green eyes as the creature studied her. Follow, whispered a voice that sounded less like her mother, and more like the hiss of a cat.” 

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The Getaway

by Lamar Giles

“So many times in history it’s the youth who see the clearest and can save the day”

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The End of the Wild

by Nicole Helget

“Mostly I wonder if I’m just wrong. I wonder if everyone thinks fracking is more important than my mushrooms, my ramps, and my beechnuts. I wonder if fracking really is more important than the bears, the coyotes, and the wild turkeys.”

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The Absolute Book
The Absolute Book

by Elizabeth Knox

“He’s going to do it, she thought. God help us all. He really does mean to save the world”

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Odder

by Katherine Applegate

“Once, in times past, when the ancients lived, the ocean was filled with our kind”

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Namer Of Spirits

by Todd Mitchell

“Rather than imagining things, she thought of it as paying attention to things that no one else noticed and seeing what could be – the way a weed could be a flower once you noticed its beauty. Everything had hidden possibilities, and if she listened closely enough, she sometimes heard whispers of what those possibilities might be.”

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Hello from Renn Lake

by Michele Weber Hurwitz

“I bend toward the water and look closer. The start of a dead zone? Was that boy trying to scare us, like Maya said? Or does he really know what’s happening? I spot another dead fish, floating on its side. There are clumps of green on its silver scales, more than the last one had. I walk away from the reeds and kneel by a clearer part of the water. ‘Renn? Everything okay?’ There’s a pause, then: I’ve been better. ‘What’s wrong?’ Hard to explain.”

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