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Celebrating Earth: Environmental Books for Children - Fiction
Booklists for Kids
Dexter, Catherine. GERTIE'S GREEN THUMB.
Gertie loves plants but gets more than she bargains for when a wish turns her house into a nature sanctuary complete with plants, a waterfall, and a moose named Melrose!

George, Jean Craighead. THE FIRE BUG CONNECTION.
What could be causing Maggie's new collection of fire bugs to explode and die? She and Mitch team up to investigate.

George, Jean Craighead. WHO REALLY KILLED COCK ROBIN?
When a robin dies mysteriously, eighth grader Tony Isidoro sets out to discover why.

Mahy, Margaret. THE GIRL WITH THE GREEN EAR: STORIES ABOUT MAGIC IN NATURE.
A cake-eating tree? Flying merry-go-round horses? A man who collects thunderstorms? Celebrate nature with these nine funny, magical stories.

Park, Ruth. MY SISTER SIF.
When Erika and Sif return to their South Pacific island home, they discover that careless ocean dumping and pollution threaten the magical sea people who live nearby in an underwater city.

Schlein, Miriam. THE YEAR OF THE PANDA.
Lu Yi rescues an orphaned baby panda and soon discovers that all pandas are endangered.

Compiled by Barbara Rhodes, Jamaica Plain Branch, Boston Public Library, 1994.