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A focused introduction to water scarcity, linking access to safe drinking water with pressures on freshwater resources around the world.

This is an adventure built around a shift from exploration to an urgent rescue mission, with climate change and Greenlandic culture among the expedition’s stated interests.

A wide-ranging introduction to Libya, linking its history and present-day circumstances with information about its people, environment and culture.

This is an image-rich account of polar-bear field biology: scientists search from helicopters, work on sea ice, gather measurements and samples, and use long-term data to understand the animals.

A brisk alien-adventure story places a group of friends in danger after mysterious lights appear above a reservoir. Alongside rescue and escape, it raises questions about pollution, technology, heroism and how people respond to the unknown.

This is a dark climate-fiction novel told through Nat’s reflective account. Its unusual narrative approach raises moral questions without following a straightforward action-adventure structure.

A substantial ocean reference for browsing or dipping into: it combines striking nature photography with explanations of creatures, ocean zones, weather, geology, climate and exploration, while including conservation information and practical ways people can help.

Expect an urgent survival adventure in which two children must respond to rising danger after extreme weather separates them from their group. Its environmental focus sits alongside friendship, courage and the pressures of fitting in.

Choose this for a fast-moving scientific overview that links geology, climate, anatomy and evolution across immense stretches of time. It favours memorable ideas and lesser-known organisms over comprehensive coverage or visual explanation.

A visually rich introduction to freshwater, moving from scientific foundations to living habitats and worldwide challenges. Its final practical section invites readers to connect large environmental questions with choices at home and in their communities.

This is an imaginative, issue-led adventure about environmental collapse, inequality and resistance, balanced by family loyalty and hope. Its vivid language may invite close discussion as much as straightforward plot-following.

This offers a science-led introduction to natural disasters, linking volcanoes, earthquakes, fires and other events with climate-change concerns, prevention and practical activities. It may suit a child who enjoys factual exploration and learning by doing.

A fast-moving dystopian adventure combines a family search with uncertain alliances, a lottery camp and an environmental mystery. Its central pull is whether belonging means escaping Earth or helping protect it.

This is a visually led story about a frightened newcomer trying to return home. Its emotional centre is Leaf’s isolation, while the woodland animals’ changing response opens space to discuss fear, curiosity and welcome.

This is an imaginative adventure combining friendship, mystery and a robot with a society changed by water scarcity. It also gives sustained attention to Auden’s experience of achromatopsia and his changing relationship with that difference.

This is an information-rich guide to sustainable energy, designed to make renewable resources, technology and climate action approachable through visual explanations and concise facts.

A practical environmental story about children turning part of their school grounds into a wild area, involving shared effort, planting, and patience before something positive happens.

Expect an energetic adventure through floating communities, underwater ruins and hidden routes, alongside questions about who controls resources and whose version of events can be trusted.

A nature-rich memoir that follows a young birder’s family travels and growing public activism. Its strongest interest may lie in the way birdwatching connects personal identity, family life, conservation and a search for belonging.

This is a serious, emotionally focused novel about returning home, confronting painful memories and imagining a future beyond harmful family dynamics. Flooding and climate danger provide an urgent backdrop, while romantic love adds another strand.

This is an energetic introduction to rewilding that combines serious environmental information with cartoons, unusual natural examples and clearly explained scientific ideas. Its central message is hopeful: restoring nature could help both ecosystems and people.

Expect a fast-moving speculative story where environmental change, enhanced abilities and social ideas create pressure for Akaego and her friends. Its strongest promise is the combination of action, relationships and questions about how people respond to crisis.

A fast-moving Irish fantasy about protecting a magical world from destruction, combining folklore, adventure and danger. It offers an imaginative quest while bringing contemporary concerns, including bullying and climate change, into an ancient-myth setting.

A lively, idea-led climate thriller combines speculative plant powers with social inequality, family expectations, romance and collective resistance. Its central appeal is imagining young people confronting environmental damage and corporate power together.

Expect an urgent science-fiction story built around two opposing viewpoints: Cillian’s discovery about his identity and Tess’s shaken commitment to a violent mission. Short chapters and cliff-hangers make the narrative strongly plot-driven.

A myth-rich adventure that joins friendship, cultural detail and care for the natural world. Its imaginative journey gives children an active role in responding to environmental damage.

A tense climate-emergency adventure that combines rising floodwater and urgent problem-solving with questions about identity, friendship, bullying and finding courage. The children’s changing relationships are central to the story’s momentum.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure about a child pursuing answers about her family in a magical plant world. It offers lively action, inventive world-building and clear conservation themes, while also introducing peril, hostility and loss.

This is a visually led science book that moves from leaf structure and photosynthesis to plant evolution, ecosystems and the role of plants in regulating Earth’s atmosphere.

This is a visually led science book about the fossil-fuel energy cycle: sunlight, plants, buried carbon, human energy use, carbon dioxide and changes in the atmosphere.

A focused introduction to a young person’s environmental and Indigenous-rights activism, showing how public speaking and music can be used to encourage youth participation in social change.

A child-focused introduction to global warming, combining scientific explanation with lively illustrations and practical discussion of how people might help. It may suit shared reading about climate change, especially when an adult can clarify what remains unexplained.