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Topic: Extinction

Subtopics: Mass Extinction

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

by Becky Chambers

“It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward… even if you know that the wilderness is the default state of things…. you will still struggle to understand that human constructs are carved out, and overlaid, that these are the places that are the in-between, not the other way around.”

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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier

“Modern human civilization has developed within just 10,000 years, yet our success as a species has tipped the planet’s systems outside their natural limits.”

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AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet

by Jon Scieszka

“So now it’s up to you to figure a way out. You can: a) Burn less fossil fuels or b) Find another planet with air and water and plants and animals, just like Me.”

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AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet

by Jon Scieszka

“Even though the Water Planet did not turn out to be a good Goldilocks Planet, it did turn out to be a good lesson on how to take care of a planet.”

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Becoming a Good Creature

by Sy Montgomery

“School is not the only place to find a teacher.”

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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years

by Stacy McAnulty

“You can call me Planet Awesome.”

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Forest World

by Margarita Engle

“I can’t resolve or invent the past. / I need a way to change the future.”

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Horizon: Forbidden West

by Guerrilla Games

“It’s not about the distant hope of creating a new world. It’s about preserving the one we have.”

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

by Guerrilla Games

“To serve a purpose greater than yourself. That is the lesson you must learn.”

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How To Bee

by Bren MacDibble

“But how can Peony leave her beloved sister, grandfather, best friend Applejoy, and the orchard behind? And just for money? Don’t Ma know what’s important anyway?”

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If Bees Disappeared

by Lily Williams

“From food to medicine to clothing, bees help keep our lives going.”

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If Tigers Disappeared

by Lily Williams

“This area, located in the Eastern Ghats, is a lushly populated home to animals that jump, pounce, stomp, and ROAR!”

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Impossible Creatures

by Katherine Rundell

“He’s a guardian. He had not been clear, until this moment, what that meant: it meant this feeling. It meant burning to keep watch, for that which needed to be watched. It meant burning to keep it safe. It meant a ferocious and careful love.”

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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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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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