Technology and the Environment

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Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse - Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - After Earth is twice attacked by aliens, the world government begins breeding military geniuses, one of whom is Ender Wiggin.
• Clearcut Danger by Lesley Choyce - When Alana, a Micmac girl, and her friend Ryan take on a logging company that threatens to change their environment, the two friends face several challenges. They find themselves being opposed by workers and family members who owe their jobs to logging, and by company representatives who see only dollar signs. Tom Murray, who represents the logging company, is a dangerous man, but when research by Alana and Ryan proves that he is misleading the townspeople about the mill's safety, the youngsters persevere in their struggle and win. In the process, Ryan learns much about the Micmac culture and about himself.
• Techno-Talk by Christine McClymont - This collection of prose and poetry is an interesting and informative look at technological advances. The book contains a table of contents.
• Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold - Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.

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