FARRELL, Courtney Keeping Water Clean ISBN 978-1-60279-659-1 . LC 2009038095. FARRELL, Courtney . Using Alternative Energies ISBN 978-1-60279-663-8 . LC 2009038099. HIRSCH, Rebecca E. Growing Your Own Garden ISBN 978-1-60279-657-7 . LC 2009038093. HIRSCH, Rebecca E. . Helping Endangered Animals ISBN 978-1-60279-658-4 . LC 2009038094. HIRSCH, Rebecca E. . Protecting Our Natural Resources ISBN 978-1-60279-661-4 . LC 2009038097. MINDEN, Cecilia Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle ISBN 978-1-60279-662-1 . LC 2009038098. VOGEL, Julia Local Farms and Sustainable Foods ISBN 978-1-60279-660-7 . LC 2009038096. ea vol: 32p. (Language Arts Explorer: Save the Planet Series). photos. further reading. glossary. index. Web sites. CIP. Cherry Lake 2010. PLB $27.07. Gr 2-5 This series focuses on how children can become actively involved in protecting the environment. At the beginning of each book, readers are given a mission and advised to be alert to the facts provided so that they can successfully answer the questions at the end. Next comes a neatly organized list of What You Knowfacts to keep in mind while readingand then kids are off on an imaginary trip. In Compost It , they visit a gardener who walks a reporter through building his own compost heap. In Growing Your Own Garden , a class visits a school in Pennsylvania that is doing exactly that. Reduce provides numerous easy ways in which children can step up to the plate and recognize their responsibility to the planet. Other titles transport them to China so they can understand the plight of pandas, or to Africa where elephants endangered status is explored. No matter which scenario is presented, children are made to feel part of the process; suggestions for how they can become involved abound. The books include Further Missions sections that describe such projects as creating a greenhouse in a jar and designing an animal friendly backyard.