Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future
by Allan Drummond
The amazing story of one town’s real-world effort to build back better!
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2016
Word Count 1,561
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 770L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 181145, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Europe
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- JUVENILE NONFICTION
- Environmental Science & Ecosystems
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Disasters
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - State & Local
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Greensburg (Kan.)
- Green movement--Kansas--Greensburg--Juvenile literature
- Sustainability--Kansas--Greensburg--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Europe
- Kansas
- Sustainable living
- Science & Nature
- Greensburg
- Tornadoes--Kansas--Greensburg--Juvenile literature
- Sustainability
- Green movement
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Environmental Science & Ecosystems
- Greensburg (Kan.)--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Environmental conditions
- People & Places
- Tornadoes
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Recycling & Green Living
- Sustainable living--Kansas--Greensburg--Juvenile literature
- Lists With This Book
- Earth Day 2017|March for Science
- Sample: Journeys, Units 1-2
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 3
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Awards & Distinctions 5

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2022
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017

Best STEM Books, 2017-2023
Selection, 2017

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2023
Honor, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2022
Science Selection, 2016
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