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Related Readings
Teens and Adults
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
Appalachian Autumn by Marcia Bonta
Appalachian Winter by Marcia Bonta
Appalachian Spring by Marcia Bonta
Appalachian Summer by Marcia Bonta
Escape to the Mountain: a family's adventures in the wilderness by Marcia Bonta
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Lee Davis
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich
The Appalachian Trail Reader edited by David Emblidge
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
A Weed by Any Other Name: the Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don't Plant by Nancy Gift
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Greasy Rider by Greg Melville
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Children
The Earth and I by Frank Asch
Why Should I? series by Jen Green
Curious George Plants a Tree by H.A. Rey and Margaret Rey
The Lorax by Dr. Suess
To find more recommended reads and summaries of books above please go to Novelist on Access PA Power Library through your library's website. Also visit the Environmental Reading List from the Rachel Carson Homestead.