Read my guest post ( The Toughest “Tough Topic” of All) on SLJ. One of Book Riot’s 12 Must-Read September Children’s Book Releases One of SLJ’s 24 Audiobooks to Encourage Ongoing Activism and Social Justice One of SLJ’s Two Middle Grade Novels that Explore Climate Change in Different Ways One of Kirkus’s Five Books to Help Kids Face Our Frightening World Violets Are Blue Barbara Dee Aladdin c/o Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 1230 Avenue of the Americas, 4th floor, New York, NY 10020 9781534469181, 17.99, HC, 304pp Twelve-year-old Wren loves makeup-special effect makeup, to be exact. One of School Library Journal’s Best Middle Grade Books 2022 Can Haven save the river–and maybe even make a difference to the planet too?įrom the acclaimed author of MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU and VIOLETS ARE BLUE comes an engaging and hopeful novel about the most challenging issue of our lifetime. So when Haven’s science class begins a study of a local river, she channels her eco-anxiety into a mission to save the water from pollution she believes is being caused by the town’s new glass factory-where her own dad works. An empathetic social studies teacher suggests that Haven focus on something local and specific where she can make a difference. Barbara Dee Violets Are Blue Kindle Edition by Barbara Dee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 54 ratings Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Seventh grader Haven is obsessed with climate change-so obsessed that she has what’s called “eco-anxiety.” Not only is Haven doom-scrolling compulsively, she’s also inattentive in class, not sleeping, biting her nails to nubs as she worries about catastrophic weather events and the worldwide disappearance of honeybees and frogs.
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