These challenge materials are for use with purchased ebook reading challenges, which school media specialists and librarians can order via their Challenges dashboard. Each ebook reading challenge includes three curated and leveled ebooks with perpetual simultaneous use licenses, so that your readers have unlimited access to top-notch reading content within Beanstack, anywhere and anytime your challenge is running.
About this Challenge
Go green with this reading challenge and its accompanying ebooks all about environmental science and sustainability.
Ebook Reading Lists
Kindergarten
- “Choose to Reuse” written by Lisa Bullard and illustrated by Wes Thomas
- “Plants and the Environment” by Jennifer Boothroyd
- “How We Clean Up a Park” by Robin Nelson
1st Grade
- “Look Out for Litter” written by Lisa Bullard and illustrated by Xiao Xin
- “People and the Environment” by Jennifer Boothroyd
- “Go Green by Saving Energy” written by Lisa Bullard and illustrated by Wes Thomas
2nd Grade
- “Animals and the Environment” by Jennifer Boothroyd
- “Go Green by Reusing” written by Lisa Bullard and illustrated by Wes Thomas
- “From Garbage to Compost” by Lisa Owings
3rd Grade
- “Reducing Waste” by Anne Flounders
- “Going Green” by Alex Francis
- “Climate Change and Energy Technology” by Rebecca E. Hirsch
4th Grade
- “Reducing Waste” by Anne Flounders
- “Hack Your Backyard” by Niki Ahrens
- “Environmental Activist Wangari Maathai” by Jennifer Swanson
5th Grade
- “Climate Change and Extreme Storms” by Mary Dykstra
- “Finding Out about Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas” by Matt Doeden
- “Environmentalist Rachel Carson” by Douglas Hustad
6th Grade
- “How LEDs Work” by James Roland
- “Energy Investigations” by Karen Latchana Kenney
- “Natural Resources” by Annabel Griffin
7th Grade
- “Eating Local” by Laura Perdew
- “Seven Wonders of Green Building Technology” by Karen Sirvaitis
- “Surviving Natural Disasters” by Marcia Amidon Lusted
8th Grade
- “Organic Foods” by David M. Barker
- “Dead Zones” by Carol Hand
- “Geoengineering Earth's Climate” by Jennifer Swason
High School
- “Climate Migrants” by Rebecca E. Hirsch
- “Living Simply” by Sally McGraw
- “Green Energy” by Matt Doeden
Challenge Materials
