My River
Cleaning Up the Lahave River
Published on 1. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-4595-0551-3 (ISBN)
Description
When Stella was told she couldn't swim in her back yard river because hundreds of houses flushed their raw sewage into it she decided to try to do something about the issue. This is the true story of Stella's astonishingly successful grade six science project to clean up the LaHave River.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Third Grade, Reading Age: From 8 to 9 years, Interest Age: From 7 to 11 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4595-0551-3 (9781459505513)
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Persons
Stella Bowles has won numerous awards for environmental activism, including being named one of Canada's Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 in 2017. She is a thirteen-year-old junior high school student living in Upper LaHave, Nova Scotia.