Ruby on the Outside

Fly, Butterfly, Fly! (Wild Wanderers Book 6)

Face to Face with Caterpillars (Face to Face with Animals)

Itch!

Beetles for Breakfast: And Other Weird and Wonderful Ways to Save the Planet

The Boy Who Turns Into a Truck: Austin Saves the Beach

The Monster Missions

Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth

When chance, or fate, throws two twelve-year-olds together on board a scientific research ship at the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it’s not all smooth sailing!

Jeremy “JB” Barnes is looking forward to spending the summer before seventh grade hanging on the beach. But his mother, a scientist, has called for him to join her aboard a research ship where, instead, he’ll spend his summer seasick and bored as he stares out at the endless plastic, microbeads, and other floating debris, both visible and not, that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Miles and miles away, twelve-year-old Sidney Miller is trying to come up with an alternate activity worthy of convincing her overprotective parents that she can skip summer camp.

When Jeremy is asked to find the contact information for a list of important international scientists and invite them to attend a last-minute Emergency Global Summit, he's excited to have a chance to actually do something that matters to the mission. How could he know that the Sidney Miller he messages is not the famous marine biologist he has been tasked with contacting, but rather a girl making podcasts from her bedroom―let alone that she would want to sneak aboard the ship?

Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner's Consider the Octopus is a comedy of errors, mistaken identity, and synchronicity. Above all, it is a heartfelt story about friendship and an empowering call to environmental protection, especially to our young people who are already stepping up to help save our oceans and our Earth.

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Ruby on the Outside

Nora Raleigh Baskin, 2015

Fly, Butterfly, Fly! (Wild Wanderers Book 6)

Dom Conlon, Anastasia Izlesou, 2023

Face to Face with Caterpillars (Face to Face with Animals)

Darlyne A. Murawski, 2007

Itch!

Anita Sanchez, Gilbert Ford, 2018

Beetles for Breakfast: And Other Weird and Wonderful Ways to Save the Planet

Madeleine Finaly, Jisu Choi, Madeleine Finlay, 2021

The Boy Who Turns Into a Truck: Austin Saves the Beach

Heidi Sharrard, Nellie Hutchinson, Sarah Martin, 2023

The Monster Missions

Laura Martin, 2021

Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth

Rebel Girls, Cristina Mittermeier, 2022