I've heard great things about Barbara Dee's middle grade novels, so I'm so glad I read Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet. The novel follows seventh-grader Haven Jacobs as she experiences climate anxiety, which manifests in not only physical stress symptoms, but mental ones as well. Determined to make people care about the environment and its well-being as much as she does, Haven embarks on a plan to save the river located behind her school, which has become polluted in recent years. Haven is smart, empathetic, and admirable in her efforts to bring her town together to help the river, and the novel brings much-needed light to the small-scale (but not less important) effects of global warming and climate change with its focus on environmental activism. Haven Jacobs is a must-read for anyone who felt unheard in middle school and for those who wish to enact change in the world!