Independent Reading Suggested Books for 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 (1000L) *
- 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) *
- Human Impact (The Restless Sea) by Carole Garbuny Vogel
- One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul (570L)
- Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing
- Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman (900L) *
- 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
- 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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