One Good Apple: Growing Our Food for the Sake of the Earth

by Catherine Paladino

Book Overview

Every day some of the most toxic poisons - poisons that eventually effect all life on earth - are sprayed on the foods we eat: apples, peaches, corn, grapes, and strawberries, to name a few. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395850096
• ISBN13: 9780395850091
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Richie's Picks: ONE GOOD APPLE

The history of pesticide use in the US, the current dangers from pesticides to consumers and farm workers (and their families), and the alternatives to chemical agriculture are explained at a level easily understood by middle school students. Many a reader will be thinking about what he or she is eating long after consuming this book.