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1) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical...
Author
Publisher
LaDonna Rose Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready to sail to Alaska with Keta, the adventurous sea cat who befriends orca whales, discovers her love for salmon and learns to fish sustainably with her pawrents. Join Keta on her thrilling adventures, including seeing the mesmerizing northern lights."--
Author
Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides. Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority - 70 percent or more annually - of pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby making their way into the food chain and into the water supply."--Jacket.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
8) Borne
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free....
9) Prophecy
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary tale of stark horror a savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
11) Rocketship X-M
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Four men and one woman take off to the Moon but are knocked off course by a meteor shower. They are forced to land on Mars, a planet devastated by atomic warfare and populated by deadly radiation-scarred mutants.
12) 10.0 earthquake
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As a series of earthquakes start tearing apart Los Angeles, scientist Emily theorizes that it's all building to a super quake that will drop the entire city into a lava-filled chasm. Engineer Jack, whose company is responsible for the quakes due to their deep fracking, feels obligated to help, and races with Emily through the ruined city with the hopes of diverting the epicenter to a less populated area and potentially save millions of lives.
13) Godzilla
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
14) Godzilla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
15) Whitewash
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A leading scientist at EcoEnergy, a company seeking a clean, alternative energy source, Sabrina Galloway makes the alarming discovery that an unknown saboteur has tampered with the production process, and risks her life to uncover the truth about a deadly conspiracy.
16) Them!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them? ... Them! begins in New Mexico with a child wandering in shock, a ransacked general store -- and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. It ends with an epic struggle in the 700 miles of storm drains under Los Angeles, where the insect hordes are beaten. But they're not conquered, because they spawned a generation of...
18) White wash
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
One of the scientists responsible for creating an alternative fuel breakthrough discovers that someone has tampered with the production process and thus endangered Florida's waterways.
19) Woman at war
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Icelandic
Appears on list
Description
50-year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
20) Promised land
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.