Climate Lit

Audience: Ages 14+

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How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Steffof

“Movements make a difference. You can be the friction, the resistance that is needed to slow down the machine that is setting the world on fire”

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I Talk Like a River

by Jordan Scott

“I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can’t say them all.”

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Jungle Nama

by Amitav Ghosh

“This is the jungle, the timeless tide, where the river meets the sea. Here, nature’s laws alone decide, what can and cannot be.”

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Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

“The Sun was pouring his nourishment onto the street and into the buildings, and when I looked over to the spot where Beggar Man and the dog had died, I saw they weren’t dead at all—that a special kind of nourishment from the Sun had saved them.”

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Lagoon

by Nnedi Okorafor

“We do not seek your oil or your other resources…We are here to nurture your world…We come to bring you together and refuel your future…Your land is full of a fuel that is tearing you apart.” Lagoon begins with an alien-induced transformation of the waters surrounding Nigeria. This change alters its composition and the aquatic species living inside. The narrative follows the alien ambassador, Ayodele, and three humans: Adaora, a marine biologist; Anthony, a popular rapper; and Agu, a soldier. Together, these four characters navigate this new world where aliens live amongst humans. Their goal is to negotiate with both the Nigerian government and the alien “Elders” for peace between the new alien species inhabiting Nigeria’s waters. Lagoon introduces readers to issues of multispecies storytelling, oil pollution, vibrant matter, and interspecies kinship. The plot is complex and multilayered, whereas the ideological and environmental state of Nigeria is interrogated through the …

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Loddlenaut

by Moon Lagoon

“Oh, that’s just a loddle. It looks like it’s covered in goop. Unfortunately, you are not authorized to use your laser on the local wildlife. Not after what happened last time…”

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Nature’s Best Hope (Young Readers’ Edition)

by Douglas W. Tallamy, Sarah L. Thomson

“We just have to change the way we think about plants.”

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

by Greta Thunberg

“We will never stop fighting for the living planet and for our future.”

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Pikmin 3

by Nintendo

“If they carefully cultivate the seeds they’ve harvested, it just may bring salvation to the people of Koppai.”

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Poison Town

by Elyssa Campbell

“The crow had fallen out of the sky. But it hadn’t hit anything. It was fine, then it couldn’t breathe…after it had flown directly over the smokestacks through the smog. I looked back at the smelter—the smog still rising from its stacks—and frowned.”

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Sapiens: A Graphic History, The Birth of Humankind Vol. 1

by Yuval Noah Harari

“Homo Sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s … eas[y] for us to imagine we’re the pinnacle of creation, separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by an unbridgeable chasm”

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Saving American Beach

by Heidi Tyline King

“MyVanee was saving more than a beach.”

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Ship Breaker

by Paolo Bacigalupi

“The wreckage of the twin dead cities was good evidence of just how slow the people of the Accelerated Age had been to accept their changing circumstances”

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Sword of the Sea

by Giant Squid

“Feel the spiritual magic of surfing as you connect with nature and restore life – but beware, there is also darkness lurking under the waves.”

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Tales from the Inner City
Tales from the Inner City

by Shaun Tan

“It’s hard to convey how natural it all seemed, and how even the first conversations began without us really noticing.”

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