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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis 

by Vanessa Nakate

“We believe that at the center of this effort must be a genuine commitment not only to environmental, racial, and climate justice, but to the empowerment of girls and women, who are facing the crisis most acutely and are at the forefront of efforts to combat it.”

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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 Three: The Perfect Planet

by Jon Scieszka

“That’s it, Homo Sapiens—the hard and inescapable truth. I am your Perfect Planet. I will take care of you. But you have to take care of me”

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Drawn to Change the World

by Emma Reynolds

“We can’t eat money or drink oil. One day I will be an ancestor and I want my descendants to know I used my voice so they can have a future.”

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Every Leaf a Hallelujah

by Ben Okri

“You humans seem to think that we trees are just decoration. But we are beings like you. We feel. We respond to love and attention. You should see how we glow when we are loved.”

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Horton Hears a Who!

by Jimmy Heyward, Steve Martino

“We will put the speck on Mount Nool before the end of this decade.”

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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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The Climate Book

by Greta Thunberg

“This is the biggest story in the world”

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The Getaway

by Lamar Giles

“So many times in history it’s the youth who see the clearest and can save the day”.

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The Tantrum that Saved the World
One Earth, cover

by Megan Herbert, Michael E. Mann

“I’m just a kid. What can I do? / Someone must help us. It’s now up to you.”

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Unstoppable Us, Vol. 1

by Yuval Noah Harari

“Animals and plants depend on one another, so if something happens to one kind of creature, it usually influences many others. And this law even applies to you”

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