Global ~ Class Sets
This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for children of all ages.
Yuki lives in an increasingly deserted Inuit township in Nova Scotia. One day she sets out into the wilderness of the Arctic tundra planning to photograph a rare grolar bear (a terrifying grizzly-polar crossbreed created by climate change) - if she can prove it's a grolar, she can protect it from being shot. With only her faithful dog for company and adrift on a fragment of melting glacier, she finds herself being stalked across the changing wilderness by a starving grolar bear, with only her wits and her harpoon to keep her alive. Sami lives in a fishing village on the Bay of Bengal.
But because of the ever-rising ocean level, each day is a struggle to survive. One night, Sami sets out to return to his old, submerged family home, alone. He takes a deep breath and dives beneath the moonlit waters, hoping to find his past. But a cyclone is coming...
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This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for children of all ages.
Yuki lives in an increasingly deserted Inuit township in Nova Scotia. One day she sets out into the wilderness of the Arctic tundra planning to photograph a rare grolar bear (a terrifying grizzly-polar crossbreed created by climate change) - if she can prove it's a grolar, she can protect it from being shot. With only her faithful dog for company and adrift on a fragment of melting glacier, she finds herself being stalked across the changing wilderness by a starving grolar bear, with only her wits and her harpoon to keep her alive. Sami lives in a fishing village on the Bay of Bengal.
But because of the ever-rising ocean level, each day is a struggle to survive. One night, Sami sets out to return to his old, submerged family home, alone. He takes a deep breath and dives beneath the moonlit waters, hoping to find his past. But a cyclone is coming...
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for children of all ages.
Yuki lives in an increasingly deserted Inuit township in Nova Scotia. One day she sets out into the wilderness of the Arctic tundra planning to photograph a rare grolar bear (a terrifying grizzly-polar crossbreed created by climate change) - if she can prove it's a grolar, she can protect it from being shot. With only her faithful dog for company and adrift on a fragment of melting glacier, she finds herself being stalked across the changing wilderness by a starving grolar bear, with only her wits and her harpoon to keep her alive. Sami lives in a fishing village on the Bay of Bengal.
But because of the ever-rising ocean level, each day is a struggle to survive. One night, Sami sets out to return to his old, submerged family home, alone. He takes a deep breath and dives beneath the moonlit waters, hoping to find his past. But a cyclone is coming...
If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.
We love this book because it is:
Two children. Two Locations. One Climate Crisis
About the current, catastrophic impacts of global warming
About the human impact of environmental change
Connects two contrasting locations
Learning opportunities:
Geography ~ locate Nova Scotia and the Bay of Bengal. Before reading the novel, consider what impact global warming could have on these communities.
Geography ~ human impact of global warming
Science ~ climate change. How is the climate changing in the two locations? Why is this happening?
Science ~ Create an experiment to show why melting ice caps results in rising sea levels.
Geography ~ weather. What is a cyclone? Why is the changing weather a problem for Sami’s community?
Evolution & Adaptation ~ what is a grolar? Why is this new species a problem in Nova Scotia?
Writing ~ create a fact file about a brown bear, a polar bear and a grolar bear.
Maths ~ create a Venn Digram to compare the two locations
Writing ~ write a diary entry as either Sami or Yuki at the beginning of the stories and another at the end. How would their views change?
Writing ~ choose to write a persuasvie speech as either Sami or Yuki asking people to take action to avoid further change to our climate
Science ~ identify the climate solutions at the end of the story. What do Net Zero and Carbon Neutral mean? What are fossil fuels? What cleaner types of energy could we use more of?
PSHE ~ identify ways to help your school become more eco-friendly. Can you reduce the school’s carbon footprint?
Writing ~ research and produce a presentation about a climate activist who has positively impacted a community.
Writing ~ consider how global warming could affect where you live. Create a short graphic novel about the impact.
Writing ~ choose a chapter to re-write as a traditional narrative. How do you need to change the text when there aren’t any graphics to show the reader what is happening?
