Earth Day Picks for Secondary Education

By Tina Parmar | March 19 2026 | EducationSecondary Education

Earth Day, celebrated on April 22nd, is a power opportunity to engage middle and high school students in meaningful conversations about sustainability, climate action, and global responsibility. With thoughtful curated titles and collections, students can explore complex environmental issues while building critical thinking and real-world connections.

Whether you are enhancing your curriculum or adding to your library, these selections bring relevance and purpose to Earth Day. Empower students to become advocates for a more sustainable future.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with enthusiastic clarity.”—Roxane GayOur climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?A SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
$24.00 US
Apr 14, 2026
Paperback
544 Pages
One World
World

9780593318683
The author of Finding the Mother Tree and scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees, Suzanne Simard now offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. "A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger, author of The Light Eaters
$30.00 US
Mar 31, 2026
Hardcover
336 Pages
Knopf
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)

9781623546533
A collection of 16 remarkable short stories for aspiring teen activists centered on the climate crisis, highlighting how small actions can make Earth sustainable against climate change. Young adult powerhouse authors such as Erin Entrada Kelly and Jeff Zentner come together in this anthology of speculative, dystopian, and contemporary realistic fiction.
$19.99 US
Feb 24, 2026
Hardcover
352 Pages
Charlesbridge Teen
World

9780593684917
A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today. “Dark Laboratory is a gargantuan, soulful work. It obliterates most of what I thought I knew about the Caribbean’s utility to Western Wealth.” —Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy
$20.00 US
Feb 10, 2026
Paperback
384 Pages
Vintage
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9781644215142
A rallying cry to save the Earth with an “anthropause”—a term that can apply to any broad rollback of economic activity that gives nature room to recover and flourish.“An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be.” —Naomi Klein
$22.00 US
Jan 13, 2026
Hardcover
192 Pages
Seven Stories Press
World except UK/Ireland

9780262553957
How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.
$27.95 US
Jan 06, 2026
Paperback
360 Pages
The MIT Press
World

9780593735510
A mind-expanding exploration of how trees learned to shape our world by manipulating the elements, plants, animals, and even humankind, possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined
$30.00 US
Sep 09, 2025
Hardcover
320 Pages
Crown
US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)

9781644214787
In Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing.
$21.95 US
Aug 26, 2025
Paperback
336 Pages
Seven Stories Press
World except UK/Ireland