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Topic: Climate Emotions

Subtopics: Climate Anxiety, Climate Grief, Climate Guilt, Eco-anxiety, Empathy, Gratitude, Hope, Solastalgia, Wonder

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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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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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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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Namer Of Spirits

by Todd Mitchell

“Rather than imagining things, she thought of it as paying attention to things that no one else noticed and seeing what could be – the way a weed could be a flower once you noticed its beauty. Everything had hidden possibilities, and if she listened closely enough, she sometimes heard whispers of what those possibilities might be.”

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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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Old Enough to Save the Planet

by Loll Kirby

“I am smart enough to read this book. I care enough to hear the news. I know enough to make the change. I am old enough to save the planet”.

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Only One

by Deborah Hopkinson

“Earth is our one and only planet to care for, love, and preserve”

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Operation Redwood

by S. Terrell French

“They’re marking all the trees they’re going to log, even the ones for our treehouse. We told them to stop, but they weren’t listening to us at all. We had to do something! So we told them we’re not coming down from the treehouse until they agree not to cut down a single tree in Big Tree Grove.”

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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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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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Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet

by April Pulley Sayre

“Thank you for beginnings, / for endings, / for lifetimes. Thank you for being / our home”

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The Absolute Book

by Elizabeth Knox

“He’s going to do it, she thought. God help us all. He really does mean to save 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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The History of Bees

by Maja Lunde

“But bees cannot be tamed. They can only be tended, receive our care.”

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The Ice Children

by M. G. Leonard

“One snowflake will melt on its own, but billions of them together … are powerful enough to change the face of a planet.”

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