Cleveramp8230beguilingamp8230.Readers age 11 and older are likely to finish this book feeling both persuaded and uplifted. Beauty has a way of doing that.Wall Street JournalFor young readers comes an imaginative guide to ocean plastics filled with tips and tricks for identifyingamp8212and combatingamp8212pollution in our oceans.Inspired by biologist AnaPamp234gos lifeamp8217s work and filled with engaging science and colorful photographs this foundational look at plastic pollution in the ocean explains why it is such an urgent contemporary issue.When she was young Ana Pamp234go didnamp8217t play in a backyard but on a beach. She walked along the shore looked at tide pools and collected fossils. As she grew older Pamp234go noticed a new species at the seaside plastic. She decided to collect it study it and give it a Latin nameamp8212Plasticus maritimusamp8212to warn people of its dangers to our planet.Pamp234go tells us how plastics end up in our rivers lakes and oceans shares plasticamp8217s chemical composition and physical properties and offers a field guide to help readers identify and understand this new invasive species in all its forms from the obvious fishing nets and water bottles to the unfamiliar tiny clear particles called microplastics. Finally she offers a critical look at our current amp8220solutionsamp8221 to plastic contamination and in her most important proposalamp8212REVOLUTIONIZEamp8212calls for deep changes in our habits motivating young and old alike to make a difference together. An artificial and almost indestructible species Plasticus maritimus deserves to have its days numbered Together we can send it packing.amp8220A cleverly conceived and comprehensive introduction to a serious issue.amp8221amp8212Kirkus ReviewsHonorable Mentionamp8212Bologna Ragazzi AwardPublished in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.