My river : cleaning up the LaHave River / Stella Bowles with Anne Laurel Carter.

My river : cleaning up the LaHave River / Stella Bowles with Anne Laurel Carter.

Alternate Title
Cleaning up the LaHave River

By
Bowles, Stella.

Publication Date
2018

Publication Information
Halifax, N.S. : Formac Publishing Company Limited,

Physical Description
96 p. : col. ill, photos.

Subject Term
Conservation of natural resources -- Juvenile literature.
 
Water conservation -- Juvenile literature.
 
Child environmentalists -- Canada -- Juvenile literature.

Geographic Term
LaHave River Valley (N.S.) -- Juvenile literature.

Additional Contributors
Carter, Anne, 1953-

Bibliography Note
Includes index.

Summary
Stella Bowles was a Grade 6 Nova Scotia student when she turned environmental activist to campaign against sewage pipes draining straight into the LaHave River. This is the inspirational first person account of Stella's Grade 6 science fair project which caught the eyes of the media, the public and government leaders propelling her into the limelight. Stella details her two and a half year fight to clean up the river, winning numerous awards for her environmental activism along the way. She succeeds in shaming three levels of government and rallying supporters into funding a $15.7 million cleanup. Today, she continues to campaign for cleaner water and demonstrates to other children how to test water quality in their own backyards, and how to take action if they find their water is polluted too. Stella's story will motivate readers to engage in local environmental activism. She demonstrates that doing what's right has no age barriers.

Language
English

ISBN
9781459505513


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