• Honorbale Mention—Bologna Ragazzi Award
• A valuable, middle-grade resource to help kids learn about the effects of waterborne plastics and how they are affecting our world’s oceans and the planet itself.
• Combines science, activism, and art into a multifaceted and highly comprehensive book ideal for school and home libraries.
• Pêgo’s approach is positive and practical, inspiring listeners to not only learn about the problem, but to also become part of the solution.
• Critiques current “solutions” to the plastics crisis, such as recycling, and offers better, more informed solutions, which kids and adults can try at home.
• A fun “field guide” shares how to identify plastics as an invasive species: how to categorize it, collect it, and safely move it elsewhere.
• Includes colorful images of plastics found “in the wild” in locations around the world.

LEVELING

Guided Reading Level: W

Common Core State Standards
W.6.1,2,3,4,8,9,9b,10
RI.6.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
L.6.3,4,4a,4b,4d,5,5a,5b,5c,6
SL.6.1,1c,1d,2,3,4,5,6

Next Generation Science Standards
MS-LS1-From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
MS-LS2-Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
MS-LS4-Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
MS-ETS1-Engineering Design
MS-ESS3-Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS2-Earth's Systems
MS-PS1-Matter and its Interactions
MS-PS2-Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.