Encourage teens to learn about the water crisis and take action to protect and restore local waterways. Whether it's in a drinking glass, flowing downstream, or miles underground, water is everywhere. And it's essential for life on Earth. But our water planet is in crisis. Going Blue educates teens about our water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action. With color photos and illustrations, along with practical suggestions and activities, readers follow stories of young people around the world addressing water concerns and learn about issues such as clean water access, coral reef damage, runoff pollution, trash islands, factory fishing, and bottled water. The second edition of Going Blue includes: current statistics and updated facts new stories about real teens a focus on restoration and sustainability COVID's impact on ocean trash information about setting up a hydration station at school updates on the restoration efforts ten years after the Gulf oil spill and on the Flint water crisis Teens are helping our environment by going green, and they can help rescue our ocean and waterways by going blue.
Framed by Jobs' inspirational Stanford commencement speech and illustrated throughout with black and white photos, this is the story of the man who changed our world.
Edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, the book is the perfect gift for girls of all ages.
True Stories for Girls of All Ages Melissa de la Cruz. Henry Holt and Company, Publishers since 1866 Henry Holt® is a registered trademark of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 fiercereads.com ...
Complete with: - Personal advice from teens who have lived or are living in two households - Tips on goal-setting and planning skills - Comic-book-style illustrations that give the book an edgy, modern, graphic novel feel
On November 21, Clyde and Bonnie celebrated Cumie's fiftyninth birthday with other family members on a deserted road west of Dallas near an unincorporated community called Sowers. Clyde and Bonnie were planning to leave town for a while ...
Violence even broke out in Congress when Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts almost to death on the Senate floor. Brooks was angry because Sumner had delivered an antislavery ...
At the Auto-Ordnance annual meeting, surrounded by antiques in Thomas Fortune Ryan's opulent New York office, Thompson suggested the gun be named after its chief financial backer. But Ryan wanted nothing of it.
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code because her daughter was the only black girlinasea of white, malefaces at a computer science camp. “I wanted to create something where she could find another community of girls like her who were ...
WOMEN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Shown here are members of Kimberly Bryant's organization Black Girls Code, which she created to help black girls advance in technology classes. LEARNING ABOUT CITIZENSHIP WOMEN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ...
Washington's logical successor was his vice president, John Adams. Burr, however, hoped that Thomas Jefferson would run for president. And Burr also believed that he would be an excellent choice for the Republican vice president.