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Topic: Earth's Aliveness

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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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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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Big Tree

by Brian Selznick

“Merwin. All life is in danger. Remember, life began as a gift, and it must always be treated as such. No matter how unstoppable the danger seems, no matter how unavoidable, there’s always something you can do.”

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Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Children hearing the Skywoman story from birth know in their bones the responsibility that flows between humans and the earth.”

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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years

by Stacy McAnulty

“You can call me Planet Awesome.”

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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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Hello, Earth! Poems to Our Planet

by Joyce Sidman

“Earth, we know you can’t answer all our questions in words. You answer in other ways.”

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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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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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Moana

by John Musker, Ron Clements

“I know who you are / Who you truly are”

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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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Only One

by Deborah Hopkinson

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

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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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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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