Fashion Forward: Striving for Sustainable Style (Orca Footprints)

by Raina DeLisle (Author)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Orca Footprints

Fashion can be fun, but it can also hurt people, animals and the planet.

Fashion Forward: Striving for Sustainable Style goes behind the glitz and glamour to explore the social and environmental issues within the fashion industry. It looks at the history of fashion, from why humans started wearing clothes to the birth of consumerism to the explosion of fast fashion and fashion's footprint.

The book introduces readers to the innovative people, companies and organizations that are taking positive action on fashion. Kids will discover how to make ethical choices and become fashion heroes for the future. There are easy ways we can help transform the fashion industry and still look stylish at the same time!

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Review quotes

"This book will inform and engage the middle school readers for whom it is written as well as younger and older readers looking for sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, and it will encourage all readers to make a difference by thinking critically before making clothing decisions. Highly Recommended."— "CM: Canadian Review of Materials"
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781459825802
Lexile Measure
1110
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Publication date
March 15, 2022
Series
Orca Footprints
BISAC categories
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF006030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | Fashion
JNF059000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Clothing & Dress
JNF065000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Recycling & Green Living
Library of Congress categories
Clothing and dress
Environmental aspects
Social aspects
Fashion
Clothing trade
Illustrated works
Informational works

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