A Better World Is Possible - by Danica Novgorodoff & Meera Subramanian

Book Synopsis

"Helpful and hopeful." --John Green, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

A Better World Is Possible is a comprehensive and graphic novel guide on climate change and what you can do about it.

As climate change quickens--bringing with it extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and humanitarian crises--four teens help organize the world's largest climate protest. Hundreds of thousands join them, taking to the streets of New York City and demanding answers. How did climate change get this bad? Who's to blame? And most importantly: What can we do about it?

In their stunning graphic novel, New York Times best-selling illustrator Danica Novgorodoff and award-winning environmental journalist Meera Subramanian share experiences from their lives and those of the four youth activists. Through their stories, we learn the science behind our changing planet and explore solutions at hand. They show us that anyone can make meaningful change, because a better world is possible--and together, we can create it!

Review Quotes

A Junior Library Guild selection

"As this lovely book points out, 'we don't have the luxury of time anymore.' This book is an urgent, helpful, and hopeful portrait of what's possible when young people come together to fight for a better world."
--John Green, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars

"A heart-warming and planet-cooling book about how change happens--anyone reading this will be much better prepared to help in the fight for the planet's future."
--Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

"A comprehensive and passionate look at the climate crisis that gives readers of all ages a sense of empowerment. A necessary read for anyone who wants to believe in the future."
--Jen Wang, author of Ash's Cabin

About the Author

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is a perpetual wanderer who can't stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic's western edge.

Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, and New York Times best-selling illustrator. Her books include the graphic novels Long Way Down, written by Jason Reynolds; Slow Storm; The Undertaking of Lily Chen; and Refresh Refresh; the cookbook The Simple Art of Rice, with JJ Johnson; and the picture book Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, and Environmental Pioneer. In 2022, Danica was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, the UK's most prestigious award for children's book illustration. She also received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in literature.