Titles that we recommend are featured below. The ones with reviews are noted with an asterisk (*). Some titles are recommended with a caveat.

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Eric Larkin

I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon

By Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul

Rise Up and Write It: With Real Mail, Posters, and More!

By Nandini Ahuja and Anoosha Syed (Illustrator)

Saturday at the Food Pantry

By Diane O'Neill and Brizida Magro (Illustrator)

Water Day

By Margarita Engle and Olivia Sua (Illustrator)

The Water Walker*

By Joanne Robertson

We Are Water

Protectors *

By Carole Lindstrom, Michaela Goade (Illustrator)

Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock *

By Aslan Tudor and Kelly Tudor

Luz Makes a Splash*

By Claudia Davila

The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition

By Michael Pollan

Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation *

By Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson

When the World Runs Dry: Earth's Water in Crisis

By Nancy F. Castaldo

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

By Vandana Shiva

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

By Leah Penniman

Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By Bobby J. Smith II

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By Michael Pollan

Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

By Vandana Shiva

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

By Vandana Shiva

The Vandana Shiva Reader

By Vandana Shiva

The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed

By Robin Broad and  John Cavanagh 

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