Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines (MP3 CD)

Staff Reviews

A hopeful, environmental wake-up call for teens ready to act. After finding a dead bee on his doorstep, Fleischman (Newbery Award-winner and local author) began extensive research into environmental challenges and changes. Eyes Wide Open is a tool kit for decoding the daily barrage of conflicting information about major issues (population, global economics, water, climate change). This book helps young people learn to look behind the headlines to examine how things got to be the way they are and what can be done about it. I recommend it to every teen, teacher, and parent eager to make the world a better place. Grades 6 & up.

This is by far the best book on the environment I have ever read. Not
only does it educate teens on the crucial moment in time they currently
live in, it teaches them how to look behind the headlines to find out
what's really going on, and it emphasizes the importance of taking
action and fighting to save our planet. Using graphics of all kinds--newspaper clipping, charts, old cartoons and ads--and his easy, witty
voice, Fleischman makes these complex topics understandable and
interesting. This book is completely excellent, and very important. I
hope to see both teens and adults reading it.