Rachel Carson: Environmental Pioneer is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.3 and Literacy.L.3.1f. Rachel Carson's life as an environmental activist is explained in this book with full-page color photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. A timeline of Carson's life is included. This book should be paired with "Rachel Carson: Environmental Pioneer (9781477724651) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.