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• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  112 p., Gr. 9+. By the author of modern classic Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the practice of harvesting serviceberries and the concept of reciprocity central to Indigenous wisdom. She contrasts this with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety

  Grose, Anouchka

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  96 p., Gr. 7+. How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide. Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Don't Have Time for This

  Craft, Brianna

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  272 p., Gr. 7+. Co-president of her high school's environmental justice club, Isa Brown wants to make real change but her infuriating co-president, hustler Darius Freeman, wants to do things his own way, and as they constantly clash over…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tales of the Urban Wild

  a Puma's Journey

  Yap, Tiffany

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  135 p., Gr. 7+. This graphic novel follows a lone puma, who local scientists tag as C-8, as he navigates what humans have done to the landscape. Drawing from meticulous research, conservation scientist Tiffany Yap weaves together many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snowglobe

  Park, Soyoung

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  384 p., Gr. 7+. Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fault Lines

  Carpenter, Nora,

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  379 p., Gr.10+. In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.

• This Is the Year

  Muñoz, Gloria, 1987-

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  360 p., Gr. 10+. In a near-future Florida ravaged by climate catastrophe, 17-year-old Juli Villarreal is recruited by a space exploration program for immigrant teens after her twin sister is killed in a car crash. Suddenly, Juli has the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charisma's Turn

  Couvson, Monique

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  126 p., Gr. 7+. This graphic novel follows the story of Charisma, a black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school. When frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, and the growing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Dreamers

  Engle, Margarita

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  218 p., Gr 7+. Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma. Ana and Leandro care deeply for the natural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 21

  the True Story of the Youth Who Sued the US Government Over Climate Change

  Rusch, Elizabeth

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  386 p., Gr. 7+. This is a gripping legal and environmental non-fiction thriller that tells the story of twenty-one young people and their ongoing case against the U.S. government for denying their constitutional right to life and liberty.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Down Came the Rain

  Mathieu, Jennifer

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  279 p., Gr.7+. Despite her father's disapproval, 16-year-old Eliza, displaced by Hurricane Harvey, throws herself into environmental activism at her new high school, where she meets Javi, who shares her experience of climate-related trauma…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aqueous

  a Novel

  Shyback, Jade, 1973-

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  288 p., Gr. 9+. Climate disasters amplified by greed have rendered Earth's surface uninhabitable and space travel impossible; now just three deep-ocean mer-stations stand between humankind and extinction. Taken at a young age to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation