# The Twenty-One

**Author:** Elizabeth Rusch
**Grade range:** Grades 6–12
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 452
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780063220874`
**ISBN-10:** `0063220873`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-21-the-true-story-of-the-youth-who-sued-the-us-government-over-climate-chang
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Compelling and timely, award-winning author Elizabeth Rusch’s The Twenty-One tells the gripping inside story of the ongoing landmark federal climate change lawsuit, Juliana vs. United States of America. The Twenty-One is for readers of Christina Soontornvat’s All Thirteen, fans of Steve Sheinkin’s books, and anyone interested in the environment and climate change, as well as youth activism, politics and government, and the law. From severe flooding in Louisiana to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to melting permafrost in Alaska, catastrophic climate events are occurring more frequently—and severely—than ever. And these events are having a direct impact on the lives (and futures) of young people and their families. In the ongoing landmark case Juliana vs. United States, twenty-one young p

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