I am teaching a 6th-8th grade hands-on solarpunk class in the fall. Please help build a reading list of short fiction!
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CatStronauts by Drew Brockington (CatStronauts -- 2)
With national pride and valuable scientific research on the line, the CatStronauts race against the CosmoCats and others to be …
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Sean says: Unfortunately nothing here that resonates with the project
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Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha
4 stars
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, …
Sean says: Evidence by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (who Greg told me wrote a great biography of Audre Lorde!) This is a contender for some 8th graders. The fact that one of the narrators is 12 is huge. Would need lots of vocab and syntax support. But probably worth it for the few who persevere.
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'brien, Eman Abdelhadi
4 stars
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Jaymee Goh, Wendy Nikel, D.K. Mok, and 1 other
4 stars
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in …
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Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation by A. C. Wise, Phoebe Wagner, Brontë Christopher Wieland
4 stars
Every story and poem in this optimistic illustrated anthology of “solarpunk and eco-speculation” portrays a future in which environmental disaster …
