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The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement

By Barry Wittenstein, Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)
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By Barry Wittenstein, Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)
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Discover the true story of how a 1969 fire in one of the most polluted rivers in America sparked the national Earth Day movement in this nonfiction picture book by award-winning author Barry Wittenstein and beloved illustrator Jessie Hartland.

After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cayuhoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire almost twenty times, earning Cleveland the nickname “The Mistake on the Lake.” Waste dumping had made fires so routine that local politicians and media did...

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