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Old Enough to Save the Planet
By Loll Kirby and Adelina Lirius (Illustrator)
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
By Amy Ehrlich, Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
Rainbow Weaver*
By Linda Elovitz Marshall, Elisa Chavarri (Illustrator)
The Story of the Blue Planet
By Andri Snaer Magnason, Aslaug Jonsdottir (Illustrator)
Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet
By Harriet Rohmer, Julie McLaughlin (Illustrator)
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation *
By Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson
Coal Mountain Elementary
By Mark Nowak, Ian Teh (Photographer)
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment
By Denis Hayes, Gail Boyer Hayes
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
By Vandana Shiva
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology
By Melissa Tuckey (Editor), Camille Dungy (Foreword by)
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
By Naomi Klein and adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
By Sandra Steingraber
Mean Spirit
By Linda Hogan
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
By Harriet A. Washington
The Vandana Shiva Reader
By Vandana Shiva
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
By Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
A People's Curriculum for the Earth Teaching about the Environmental Crisis
By Bill Bigelow (Editor), Tim Swinehart (Editor)