The Star Gardeners
Star Gardeners (The Pencil Revolution Book 3) Painting futures that don't exist yet
When climate disasters threaten everything they've built, thirteen-year-old Marcus Miller and his friends discover that creativity might be humanity's greatest tool for survival.
A devastating flood has destroyed the community art center where the Pencil Revolution began. As Marcus watches his neighbors struggle with rising waters and impossible choices, he meets Elena Santos-a girl whose Florida community has learned to thrive with flooding instead of fighting it. She brings news that changes everything: around the world, communities are developing incredible innovations to live with climate change, but they're all working in isolation.
What if they could work together?
When Dr. Victoria Sterling challenges the young revolutionaries to prove that creativity can compete with professional expertise in solving global problems, Marcus faces his biggest test yet. Can communities really adapt to climate change through imagination and collaboration? Or will Sterling's systematic, expert-driven approach prove that some problems are too big for kids with crayons?
The answer lies in an impossible dock that shouldn't be able to exist, floating classrooms that dance with storms, and a global network of young innovators who refuse to accept that anything is truly impossible.
From the Louisiana bayou to underground farms in New Orleans, from floating cities in Bangladesh to storm-harvesting systems in the Philippines, Marcus discovers that the most powerful solutions emerge when different kinds of wisdom work together. But as communities around the world face their ultimate test-a Category 5 hurricane that could destroy everything-he learns that changing the world isn't about having the perfect plan.
It's about growing communities brave enough to plant gardens in impossible soil.
"A masterful blend of environmental hope and creative problem-solving that shows young readers they have the power to change the world."
Perfect for fans of Hoot, The Wild Robot, and Ghost Boys, Star Gardeners combines real environmental science with the magic of human ingenuity, proving that the most important question isn't whether kids can save the planet-it's whether adults are wise enough to help them do it.
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