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Topic: Activism

Subtopics: Activists, Climate Action, Environmental Justice, Climate Organizations, Grassroots Activism, Green Belt Movement, Half Earth, Intergenerational Coalitions, Land Defenders, #NoDAPL Movement, Treaty People Gathering, Youth Climate Activism

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Owl’s Outstanding Donuts

by Robin Yardi

“Whatever that sloopy gloop was, something would need to be done. People can’t just dump stinky slop into creeks and get away with it”

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Pelican in Peril

by Candice Lemon-Scott

“‘It’s strange there is so much water here,’ Ebony thought. ‘It hasn’t rained in weeks.’ She went closer and then she could see it wasn’t water at all. It was oil. A big murky pool of oily waste. And it had been dumped at the dunes.”

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Pilu of the Woods

by Mai K. Nguyen

“We gotta be careful not to hurt the things around us, because nothing’s really gone forever… everything leaves a little mark”

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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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Raya and the Last Dragon

by Carlos López Estrada, Don Hall

“Now to restore peace, I must find the last dragon. My name is Raya.”

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Rebel Girls Climate Warriors: 25 Tales of Women Who Protect the Earth

by Abbye Sher, Carla Sinclair, Cristina Mittermeier, Nana Brew-Hammong, Sarah Parvis, Susanna Daniel

“We often hear that our planet is in trouble, but what we don’t hear enough is that we have the power to save it.”

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Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth

by Molly Bang, Penny Chisholm

“I am your Sun. My energy warms your days. I light up your world. But of all my planets, only one is teeming with life: your Earth. Why? Because it is covered with water – H2O – always moving, always changing, from liquid to solid to vapor and back again.”

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Rooftop Garden

by Danna Smith

“A rooftop garden is what we need / Friends and family all agree. / A garden starts with hardy seeds. / A rooftop garden is what we need.”

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Saving American Beach

by Heidi Tyline King

“MyVanee was saving more than a beach.”

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Saving Sunshine

by Saadia Faruqi

“You don’t have to fix the whole world. Sometimes saving one small thing is enough.”

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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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Si’ahl and the Council of Animals

by Jane Lister Reis, Margie Lister Muenzer

“Everyone needs to help make our planet healthy again. The animals are counting on us!”

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Strange World

by Don Hall

“This place is alive. It’s a living thing! We didn’t find the heart of Pando. We found an actual heart.”

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The Climate Book

by Greta Thunberg

“This is the biggest story in the world”

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The Coquíes Still Sing

by Karina Nicole González

“He hands me a fistful of vegetable seeds and says, ‘This is our gold’.”

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