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"A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis

By Meera Subramanian with Danica Novgorodoff

illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff

A Better World Is Possible is an inspiring and informative graphic novel for a young adult audience 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. Extensively researched interludes answer questions such as “What is climate change?” and “What is environmental (in)justice?” so readers can learn not just the science but the social implications of our changing planet and then 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!

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. 

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.

Additional praise for A Better World Is Possible

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

 First Second | On sale March 3, 2026 | Hardcover ISBN: 9781250262974 | Paperback ISBN: 9781250262981 | Ages 14-18 208 pages | Hardcover: $25.99 | Paperback: $18.99