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No World Too Big

No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change
by Lindsay H. Metcalf (Author/Editor), Keila V. Dawson (Author/Editor), and Jeanette Bradley (Author/Editor/Illustrator)
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Booktalk: The sixteen poems in this anthology celebrate young activists and groups on front lines of the climate crisis who have planted trees in Uganda, protected water in Canada, reduced school-bus climate footprint in Indonesia, invented alternate power sources in Ohio, and more.

Snippet:

Author/Editor Keila V. Dawson is one of my former students.
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We Are Lions!

We Are Lions!
by Jens Mattsson (Author), Jenny Lucander (Illustrator), and B.J. Woodstein (Translator),
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Booktalk: The narrator and his big brother have the best game in the world together. They are dangerous lions on the savannah! One day, big brother doesn’t want to run around anymore. His stomach hurts. He has to see the doctor and take medicine, and even has to stay at the hospital.

Lions don’t want to be trapped by wires and tubes! The narrator instigates a hunt, and the brothers run around the hospital together, chasing gazelles and startling the wildebeest. But big brother is very sick and can’t keep up. Lions can’t cry, his little brother insists. But they can miss the rest of their pride. With Mom and Dad, the narrator tries to comfort his sibling. Soon, he knows, the two lions will go hunting again.

Snippet:

I am a lion. My big brother is one too. ROOOOARR!
We are a pride. We hunt gazelles and wildebeest on the savanna.
When we catch them, we eat them. We are dangerous!

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