Companion book to Heartlight. While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.
Willie, his best friend Elizabeth, and his possibly imaginary friend Dodger, a blue chimpanzee, set out to save a magical forest from ruthless developers and rescue Willie's sister Amy who has been kidnapped by leprechauns.
Explores ways that individuals and communities can work to improve people's quality of life without overusing Earth's scarce resources, such as recycling, using alternative energy sources, and conserving water.
changes, challenges, and opportunities to make a difference
Hoekstra, Jonathan M
2010
Describes eighteen different habitats and the various species that inhabit areas around the world, examining how humans have changed these areas, what is being affected by the changes, and the actions being taken to conserve and protect the land and waters.
Discusses the most urgent issues with natural resources around the globe, including high rates of consumption, damage from mining, lumber harvesting decreasing forest cover, loss of soil fertility and erosion, and throwing resources away as garbage.
