Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us

by Debbie Levy (Author) Alex Boersma (Illustrator)

Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
A nonfiction picture book about amazing ways that the Earth removes carbon from the air, and amazing ways people can help, offering a fresh and hopeful perspective on climate change.

The Earth has a problem: there's too much carbon in the air.

Luckily, the Earth also has amazing powers to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere-like the power of kelp, mangroves, and dirt. Although these powers alone cannot get us out of the climate crisis we're facing, the Earth has another important power: the power of people! People have the power to change, protect, innovate, and invent.

In this informational picture book, Debbie Levy and Alex Boersma paint an encouraging yet honest picture of the problems at hand and some of the ways that we can address them. Thanks to the power of nature and the ingenuity of people, change is in the air!
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Kirkus

An attractively simple explanation of a pressing problem.

Review quotes

"[A] gentle and accessible introduction to climate change." —Horn Book Magazine

"Powerful storytelling of a not-so-distant past." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on THIS PROMISE OF CHANGE

"[An] evocatively told, carefully researched memoir-in-verse." —School Library Journal, starred review, on THIS PROMISE OF CHANGE

"[A] lively, inviting, and informative biography." —Booklist, starred review, on I DISSENT

"Narrative nonfiction at its best, helping readers understand the impact of global warming or even simply wildlife from a unique perspective." —School Library Journal on THE WHALE WHO SWAM THROUGH TIME

Debbie Levy
Debbie Levy is the award-winning author of many books of nonfiction and fiction, including the New York Times bestseller I Dissent, This Promise of Change, The Year of Goodbyes, and the young adult novel Imperfect Spiral. She lives in Maryland with her husband. They have two grown sons.

Whitney Gardner is an author, illustrator, and cartoonist. She started drawing stick figures in second grade and somehow no one's been able to stop her. If there's ever a moment when she isn't drawing, she's likely to be found rolling twenty-sided dice. Her favorite color is yellow. She is the author of the YA novels You're Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as the creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance and the illustrator for Debbie Levy's Becoming RBG and Stephanie Cooke's The Racc Pack series.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781547612062
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date
March 05, 2024
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF037030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Flowers & Plants
JNF065000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Recycling & Green Living
Library of Congress categories
Global warming
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Greenhouse gas mitigation

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