• Age: 10 to 18
• Grade: 5 to 12

A long-awaited guide to climate action and justice for young readers by bestselling, award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer and climate activist Naomi Klein.

Temperatures are rising all over the world, leading to wildfires, droughts, animal extinctions and ferocious storms -- climate change is real. But how did we get to this state, and what can we do next? What if we could work to protect the planet, while also taking action to make life fairer and more equal for the people who live on it?

We can -- if we're willing to change everything.

In her first book written for young readers, internationally acclaimed, bestselling author and social activist Naomi Klein, with Rebecca Steffof, lays out the facts and challenges of climate change and the movement for climate justice. Using examples of change and protest from around the world, including profiles of young activists from a wide range of backgrounds, Klein shows that young people are not just part of the climate change movement, they are leading the way.

How to Change Everything will provide readers with clear information about how our planet is changing, but also, more importantly, with inspiration, ideas, and tools for action. Because young people can help build a better future. Young people can help decide what happens next. Young people can help change everything.

When we invited journalist and activist Naomi Klein to campus in the fall of 2004, five years after the international success of her bestselling first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, she was a literary star. She had recently returned from a trip to Iraq for Harper's Magazine, which would form the foundation of her next book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We expected she would draw a crowd, so we moved the lecture into the 400-seat St. Thomas University chapel and set up an overflow room downstairs in the cafeteria. When Klein arrived and discovered the overflow room was full, she insisted on stopping there first to address them in person for a few minutes. She said she is always running late; the people in the overflow room were her people. A version of the talk she gave that evening was published in Harper's.

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• Short-listed, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards - Fiction - The Diamond Foundation Prize

Featured on Kirkus Reviews’ “6 Books That Will Inspire Young Activists”
One of the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2021
An Ontario Library Association Top Ten Best Young Adult Non-Fiction Book selection

"If you can get only one climate change book for youth, let it be this one.” —STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews
"A necessary purchase to educate teens on the seriousness of climate change and the imperative to enact change now." —School Library Journal
“Every young person deserves the chance to read this book.” —Toronto Star
“This book is a guide to ecological thought with prompts that question our complacency and consumerist mindset. In a few short years, teen readers will have a vote, and How to Change Everything is an urgent call for them to start agitating now.” —Quill & Quire