Consider the octopus by Baskin, Nora Raleigh 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2022)

BTSB #: 095568 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 810

Genres: Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Impostors and imposture - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Ocean - Fiction

Summary: Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything to get out of going to summer camp.

Haven Jacobs saves the planet by Dee, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2022)

BTSB #: 268165 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Water pollution - Fiction Rivers - Fiction Anxiety - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: Twelve-year-old Haven channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into a fight against the factory suspected of polluting the river running through her town.

Hello from Renn Lake by Hurwitz, Michele Weber 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 474584 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.8 MG Lexile: 540 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Lakes - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Environmental protection - Fiction Abandoned children - Fiction Adoption - Fiction

Summary: In Wisconsin, as her adoptive parents open their lake cabins for summer visitors, twelve-year-old Annalise, abandoned as an infant and able to communicate with the lake, discovers a growing toxic algae bloom and teams up with her friends to save the beloved body of water.

Leak : for the love of truth by Petty, Kate Reed 

BTSB Prebound(First Second, 2021)

BTSB #: 713139 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 3 MG Lexile: 350 GN

Genres:

Subjects: Journalists - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: Ruth Keller is brash and precocious. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it means taking on the rich local country club owner, who she believes is responsible for the pollution. But she soon discovers the difficulties of taking a stand in the face of critique and controversy. In graphic novel format.

Leak : for the love of truth by Petty, Kate Reed 

Paperback(First Second, 2021)

BTSB #: 713144 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 3 MG Lexile: 350 GN

Genres:

Subjects: Journalists - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: Ruth Keller is brash and precocious. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it means taking on the rich local country club owner, who she believes is responsible for the pollution. But she soon discovers the difficulties of taking a stand in the face of critique and controversy. In graphic novel format.

Light in the lake by Baughman, Sarah R. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2019)

BTSB #: 097404 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG F&P: Y

Genres: Mystery Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Family life - Vermont - Fiction Lakes - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Mystery fiction Vermont - Fiction

Summary: As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake's depths.

Max Einstein : rebeldes con causa [Max Einstein (Spanish) Volume: Book 2]by Patterson, James 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Duomo ediciones, 2020)

BTSB #: 703883 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Spanish Language Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Adventure fiction Water pollution - Fiction Science - Experiments - Fiction Problem solving - Fiction Creative ability - Fiction Genius - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials India - Fiction

Summary: When twelve-year-old Max's friend Vihaan asks her help for a village in India with a water crisis, Max risks her safety to try to save the day. In Spanish.

Max Einstein : rebels with a cause [Max Einstein Volume: bk. 2]by Patterson, James 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2019)

BTSB #: 703882 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Adventure fiction Water pollution - Fiction Science - Experiments - Fiction Problem solving - Fiction Creative ability - Fiction Genius - Fiction India - Fiction

Summary: When twelve-year-old Max's friend Vihaan asks her help for a village in India with a water crisis, Max risks her safety to try to save the day.

Sadiq and the Clean Water Crew [Sadiq]by Nuurali, Siman 

BTSB Prebound(Picture Window Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 684141 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-9   
AR: 3.2 LG Lexile: 560

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Somali Americans - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Water pollution - Fiction Ponds - Fiction Wildlife conservation - Fiction Clubs - Fiction

Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.