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Topic: Earth System

Subtopics: Earth's Aliveness, Ecosystems, Interconnectedness

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My Friend Earth

by Patricia MacLachlan

“She guards all the creatures in all the oceans—the black manta rays sleek like shadows, the shining parrot fish, the tiny krill who swim with millions of other krill to look big. And the whales who are big.”

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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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Nell Plants a Tree

by Anne Wynter

“Before anyone finds out how high they can climb, Nell picks up a seed.”

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Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas

by Molly Bang, Penny Chisholm

“Dive into the sea! Now flip over slowly, and look up. The water is shimmering with light – my light. I am your sun, your golden star. All ocean life depends on me; so does all life on land.”

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Odder

by Katherine Applegate

“Once, in times past, when the ancients lived, the ocean was filled with our kind”

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One Earth

by Eileen Spinelli

“One Earth, so beautiful / Remember—only one”

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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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Over and Under the Pond

by Kate Messner

“Over the pond, the wind gives us a push and stirs the light-dappled leaves on shore. There on a branch, a new goldfinch teeters, finally ready to fly. Under the pond, tadpoles are changing, learning to hop. They’re losing tails, growing legs, growing up.”

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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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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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Redwoods

by Jason Chin

“Coast redwoods need a lot of water to grow as tall as they do, and the area in Northern California where they live is perfect – it’s a rain forest.”

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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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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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