Independent Reading Suggested Books for Protecting the Earth: Plastic Pollution
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Fiction Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen (770L) *
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (860L) *
- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky (1160L) **
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- Endangered Oceans: Investigating Oceans in Crisis (Endangered Earth) by Jody S. Rake (830L) *
- Endangered Oceans: Investigating Oceans in Crisis (Endangered Earth) by Jody S. Rake (830L) *
- Human Impact (The Restless Sea) by Carole Garbuny Vogel
- Human Impact (The Restless Sea) by Carole Garbuny Vogel
- One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul (570L)
- One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul (570L)
- Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing
- Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing
- Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman (900L) *
- Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman (900L) *
- The Plastic Problem by Rachel Salt
- The Plastic Problem by Rachel Salt
- Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) by Loree Griffin Burns
- Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) by Loree Griffin Burns
- What a Waste by Jess French (IG920L) *
- What a Waste by Jess French (IG920L) *
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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