English Language Arts / 8th Grade / Unit 5: Facing Calamity: Climate Change Facts and Fictions / Independent Reading Suggested Books

Independent Reading Suggested Books for Facing Calamity: Climate Change Facts and Fictions

Additional Texts by the Author

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore (1070L)
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What we Can do About It by Al Gore (1070L)

Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics

EcoQueen: The Superhero with the Power to Reverse Climate Change by Joanna Measer Kanow
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (760L)
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (770L)
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (470L) *
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (750L)
Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani (890L)
The Fog Diver by Joel Ross
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (1030L)
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (810L)

Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics

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) *
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J Cooper
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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