Po
Easy
x
P, F
P,NF
NF
NF, E
NF
P, NF
NF
P, F
P, Po
Medium
Difficult
Medium
Difficult
Easy
x
x
x
x
x
NF
YA,NF
P, F
F
P,NF
NF
NF
NF, Bio
P, NF
NF
Medium
Difficult
Easy
Easy
Easy
Medium
Medium
Medium
Easy
Medium
x
F
Po
P
Po
NF
NF
P, Po
P,NF
P, F
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
x
Biel, K.
Brandenburg, J.
Bunting, E.
Calhoun, M.
Cherry, L.
Collard, Sneed B. III
Curlee, L.
Dash, J.
Davies, N.
Dewey, Jennifer
Owings
Fisher, L.
Fleischman, P.
Fleming, D.
Frank, J.
Fraser, M.
French, V.
Frost, R.
Geis, J.
Geisert, B.
Kinderdike
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Where Once there was a Wood
Snow Toward Evening
Forest Fire
Whale Journey
Birches
Where the Buffalo Roam
Haystack
x
x
x
x
Medium
Easy
Difficult
Weather &
Climate
A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from
Caribbean Poets
Me, All Alone, at the End of the World
Giants in the Land
Katya’s Book of Mushrooms
Nearer Nature
Mississippi Going North
Nobody Particular
Safari
I’m in Charge of Celebrations
Navajo: Visions and Voices Across
the Mesa
Fire in Their Eyes
An American Safari
Butterfly House
Flood
A River Ran Wild
Prairie Builders, The
Rushmore
The Longitude Prize
Big, Blue Whale
Antarctic Journal
Preservation
Agard, J. & Nichols,
G.
Anderson, M.
Appelbaum, D.
Arnold, K.
Arnosky, J.
Baker, S.
Bang, Molly
Bateman, R.
Baylor, B.
Begay, S.
Endangered
Species &
Regions
Difficulty
Woods
Type
Desert
Title
Oceans &
Rivers
Author
Man’s
Influence
Cycles of
Nature &
Seasons
Wildlife
Disasters
Environmental / Ecology Books (last updated July 2012)
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Gibbons, G.
Giblin, J.
Hamilton, V.
Hesse, K.
High, L.
Jam, T.
Jenkins, S.
Kerley, Barbara
King, D.
Kitchen, B.
Kitchen, B.
Kovacs, D. & Madin,
K.
Krupinski, L.
Kurlansky, Mark
Lasky, K.
Lasky, Kathryn
Lauber, P.
Lauber, P.
Lerner, C.
Levine, A.
Lewis, P.
Locker, T. &
Christiansen, C.
Locker, T.
Locker, T.
Maass, R.
Martin, J.
McCloskey, R.
NF
F
NF, Bio
Medium
Easy
Medium
NF
YA,NF
NF
F
P, Po
Po, P
Medium
Medium
Medium
Easy
Medium
Easy
P, NF
P,NF
P, NF
P, NF, Bio
P,F
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Easy
Skytree
Water Dance
Garden
Snowflake Bentley
Time of Wonder
x
x
x
Weather &
Climate
Easy
x
x
Preservation
P, NF
x
x
x
x
x
x
Endangered
Species &
Regions
Into the Woods: A Woodland
Scrapbook
Cod’s Tale, A
Cloud Eyes
John Muir: America’s First
Environmentalist
Hurricanes
Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988
Backyard Birds
Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand
Black Swan White Crow
Home
x
Woods
Easy
Medium
Easy
Medium
Easy
Easy
Easy
Desert
P, NF
NF
P, F
F
P, F
P,F
NF
P, NF
NF, P
P,NF
P,NF
P,NF
Oceans &
Rivers
Wolves
The Century That Was
Drylongso
The Music of Dolphins
Beekeepers
The Year of Fire
The Top of the World
Cool Drink of Water
The Flight of the Snow Geese
And So They Build
When Hunger Calls
Beneath Blue Waters
Man’s
Influence
Difficulty
Cycles of
Nature &
Seasons
Type
Wildlife
Title
Disasters
Author
x
x
x
x
Easy
Easy
Easy
Medium
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Paulsen, G.
Paulsen, G.
Paulsen, G.
Patent, D.
Patent, D.
Rogasky, B.
Roop, P. & C.
Rosen, M.
Rylant, C.
Rylant, C.
Rylant, C.
San Souci, D.
Sidman, Joyce
Simon, S.
Simon, S.
Simon, S.
Smith, R.
Steger, W.
Stevenson, J.
Swanson, D.
The Weather Sky
A Catskill Eagle
My Hiroshima
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Wildfire
Blizzard!
Into the Deep Forest: With Henry
David Thoreau
Dogsong
Father Water, Mother Woods
The Winter Room
Back to the Wild
Where the Wild Horses Roam
Winter Poems
Capturing Nature: the Writings of
John James Audubon
The Heart is Big Enough
In November
The Islander
The Whales
North Country Night
Song of the Water Boatman
Ride the Wind
Wildfires
Winter Across America
Journey of the Red Wolf
Over the Top of the World
Sweet Corn
Safari Beneath the Sea
Medium
Medium
Difficult
Easy
Medium
Medium
Difficult
x
Short Stories
P, F
Fic
Po, NF
P, NF
Poet.
P, NF
YA,NF
P,NF
NF
NF
Po
P,NF
Medium
Easy
Difficult
Easy
Easy
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
Medium
x
x
x
Weather &
Climate
F
E
F
P, NF
NF
P. Po
P, Bio
x
Preservation
Medium
Medium
Easy
Medium
Medium
Difficult
Medium
x
Endangered
Species &
Regions
P, NF
P,F
F
F
NF
YA, NF
P,Bio
x
Woods
Medium
Desert
NF
Cycles of
Nature &
Seasons
Wildlife
Difficulty
Oceans &
Rivers
Black Hands, White Sails
Type
Man’s
Influence
McKissack, P.,
McKissack, F.
McMillan, B.
Melville, H.
Morimoto, J.
Morpurgo, M.
Morrison, Taylor
Murphy, J.
Murphy, J.
Title
Disasters
Author
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Waldherr, K.
Webb, S.
Wechsler, Doug
Weller, F.
Wheatley, N.
Willard, N.
Yerxa, L.
Yolen, J.
Yolen, J.
Yolen, J.
P=
YA =
Bio =
Persephone and the Pomegranate
My Season with Penguins
Bizarre Birds
I Wonder If I’ll See a Whale
My Place
Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
Letting Swift River Go
Once Upon Ice
Welcome to the Ice House
Picture book
Young adult book
Biography
F=
NF =
Po =
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
E=
Easy
Medium
Medium
Easy
Easy
Medium
Easy
Essays
x
x
x
x
Weather &
Climate
Preservation
Endangered
Species &
Regions
Woods
Desert
Easy
Medium
Oceans &
Rivers
P
NF, P
P,NF
P,NF
P,F
P, NF, Po
P, F
P,F
Po
P, NF
Man’s
Influence
Difficulty
Cycles of
Nature &
Seasons
Type
Wildlife
Title
Disasters
Author
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Easy =
Medium =
Difficult =
x
x
x
x
Level 1-2
Level 3-4
GED-level