Bayou City W.A.T.E.R. Project

Reading List

Intermediate Level (6-8)

Amazon:  The Flooded Forest by Michael Goulding

The Birder's Handbook:  A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds by Paul R. Erlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye

Estuaries, Where Rivers Meet the Sea by Laurence Pringle

Everglades Country by Patricia Lauber

Exploring the Great Swamp by George Laycock

Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John and Mildred Teal

Look What I Found by Marshal T. Case

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

The Mystery of the Bog Forest by Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne

A Naturalists Sketchbook by Claire Walker Leslie

Of Men and Marshes by Paul L. Errington

Pitcher Plants:  The Elegant Insect Traps by Carol Lerner

The Pond by Robert Murphy

Pond Life by George K. Reid

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Through the Eyes of a Young Naturalist by Bill Sipple

Walking the Wetlands by Janet Lyons and Sandra Jordan

Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale

Wild and Scenic Rivers by The National Geographic Society

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Yearling by Marfoire Kinnan Rawlings

Secondary Level - Grades 9-12

Adopting a Stream:  A Northwest Handbook by Steve Yates

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Amazon:  The Flooded Forest by Michael Goulding

Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner

The Birder's Handbook:  A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds by Paul R. Erlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye

Caesars of the Wilderness by Peter C. Newman

Chesapeake by James A. Michener

Company of Adventures - The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company by Peter C. Newman

The Everglades:  River of Grass by Marjory Soneman Douglas

Lewis and Clark:  Pioneering Naturalists by Paul Russell Cartwright

Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John and Mildred Teal

The New Book of Oxford Canadian Verse compiled by Margaret Atwood

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

The Pond by Robert Murphy

The Portable Thoreau revised edition by Carl Bode

Runes of the North by Sigurd F. Olson

 A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

Swamp Fox by Robert Duncan Bass

This Incomparable Lande by Thomas J. Lyon

Through the Eyes of a Young Naturalist by William A. Sipple

Walking the Wetlands by Janet Lyons and Sandra Jordan

Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy

Water Pollution by Kathlyn Gay

Wetlands by William Niering

Wetlands by Max Firlaison and Michael Moser

*List of books acquired from EPA843-B-94-002, Wetlands Reading List:  Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12

 
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