Independent Reading Suggested Books for Facing Calamity: Climate Change Facts and Fictions
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Don't Call Me a Hurricane by Ellen Hagan (800L) *
- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (770L) *
- Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson *
- Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy (GN590L) *
- The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (1030L) *
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (810L) *
Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker (1080L)
- Eyes Wide Open: Going Beyond the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman (1080L)
- Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who are Helping to Protect our Planet by Harriet Rohmer (1070L)
- How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff (960L)
- One Earth: People of Color Protecting our Planet by Anuradha Rao (1050L)
- Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J Cooper
- Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World by Keltie Thomas (950L)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (860L)
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition by Michael Pollan (930L)
- The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults): How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren (1270L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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