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Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an oil spill prevents penguins from doing the things they love to do, Big Boots come and dress them in sweaters until they--and the water--can be cleaned. Includes facts about penguins and why dressing them in sweaters is not always a good idea.
Author
Language
English
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Español
Description
Una gaviota que est? muriendo de los efectos de un derramamiento de petr?leo, pone su ?ltimo huevo. Le hace prometer al gato Zorbas que cuidar? de su huevo, que no se lo comer?, y que ense?ar? a volar al pollito.
A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly.
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