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• How to Teach Grown-ups About Climate Change

  the Cutting-edge Science of Our Changing Planet

  Daniels, Patricia, 1955-

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• Global

  Colfer, Eoin,

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  Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.

• Total Garbage

  a Messy Dive Into Trash, Waste, and Our World

  Donnelly, Rebecca

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  This narrative nonfiction dives into the scientific and cultural history of the waste humans produce, examining why we make so much trash, why we're so bad at handling it, and how we can stop it (that is, us) from ruining the planet

• Old Enough to Make a Difference

  Hui, Rebecca,

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  Meet 12 enterprising and inspiring kids from around the world who have started businesses to help people and the planet. Calling all social entrepreneurs! End the trend for fast fashion. Say no to single-use plastic. Provide food to those in need.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Tree

  Selznick, Brian

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  Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fibbed

  Agyemang, Elizabeth

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  After telling too many far-fetched tales, Nana Busumuru is sent to spend the summer with relatives in Ghana, where she must join forces with the trickster spider Ananse to prevent an evil corporation from stealing the magic in the village forest.

• Consider the Octopus

  Baskin, Nora Raleigh,

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  Jeremy's mom tasks him with inviting famous scientists to a symposium on her sea-bound research ship, which is testing out a tool for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. He mistakenly sends adult scientist Sidney Miller's invitation to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lowriders to the Rescue

  Camper, Cathy

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  Lupe, an impala with a flair for mechanics, Flapjack, a sweet young octopus with vision problems, and the other Lowriders are concerned about the pollution in their town, and the greedy Upscale Business Association's plans to tear down local…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Beekeeper

  Cartaya, Pablo

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  Twelve-year-old Yolanda Cicerón has never known life without the System that connects everyone and everything around her. After climate disasters plunged the world into darkness, Silo--"the most connected and technologically advanced town in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Monarchs

  Case, Jonathan,

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  In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and ten-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Changing World

  Cold Data for a Warming Planet

  Gibson, David (Graphic designer),

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  Along with getting its message across in a visually stimulating way, this offers younger eco-activists a first-rate toolbox of facts and basic background on which to build. Compact, informative, and convincing.

• Two Degrees

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  When three children endure separate climate change disasters -- a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida -- they emerge from their experiences committed to changing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wildoak

  Harrington, C. C.,

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  Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Save the People!

  Halting Human Extinction

  McAnulty, Stacy

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  A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases.

• Rewilding

  Bringing Wildlife Back Where It Belongs

  Steen, David A., 1979-

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  Rewilding projects across the world aim to reintroduce wildlife to areas from which it has disappeared, usually due to habitat change or being overhunted.

• Everywhere Blue

  Fritz, Joanne Rossmassler

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• The Last Bear

  Gold, Hannah,

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• Rescue at Lake Wild

  Johnson, Terry Lynn

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• One Small Hop

  Rosenberg, Madelyn, 1966-

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• The Ice House

  Sherwood, Monica,

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