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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.

Examines the environmental disaster brought on by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Highlights Alaska's history with oil, the clean-up efforts, and the long-term effects of the spill. Includes a timeline, text-related questions, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.

When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, the previous book in the Dave Robicheaux series, Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts...

Based on actual events, this picture book tells the story of the first Earth Day through the eyes of a young girl named Sam.

Fun, excitement and the whale that captured the world's imagination add up to big family entertainment. A lonely boy understands the plaintive cries of the orca confined to an aquatic park's too-small tank and does something about it in Free Willy. Watch and understand why audiences have loved Willie. The boy rejoins Willy in his new ocean home and together they confront a burning oil spill in Free Willy 2. In Free Willy 3, the best of the Free Willy...

"The African Penguin population is critically low, due to various factors including climate change. Scientists and volunteers with a South African organization are helping to rescue these endangered birds by rearing abandoned chicks."-- Provided by publisher.

When a small oil spill is reported off the coast of Sparrow Island, Abby is called in to rescue the injured birds in the area. But as she works to rehabilitate the area's wildlife, the suspicious circumstances surrounding the spill motivate her to search for the source of the deadly accident. A generous donation to the cleanup fund leads to questions no one wants to answer, and a stolen boat, an anonymous message and a perilous fire make it clear...

In the shifting bayous of coastal Louisiana, on a rapidly disappearing spit of land, generations of Acadians have kept their heads above water. When an offshore rig explodes and unleashes a catastrophic spill, the people of Pelerin Parish face a reckoning that tests the bonds of family and the survival of their way of life. As the toxic plume of oil advances across the Gulf, Boy Broussard, already living hand-to-mouth off land that isn't his, finds...

Summary: On Prince William Sound in Alaska, Denny rescues a baby seal hurt by an oil spill and watches it recover at a nearby animal hospital.

The six young mermaids are delayed on their vital mission to bring magic crystals back to the Coral Kingdom by an oil spill created by the evil Mantora, as Ellie seeks the special ingredient for a potion that will help save birds caught in the oil.