Recs if you like Flush...

Florida books D*santis would hate for you to read

Includes books with BIPOC and/or queer authors or main characters from Florida and books related to topics being censored including history, race, migration, LGBTQIA+, climate change, the environment, etc.

List is a work in progress, please feel free to suggest additions! Non-fiction and fiction welcome.

A collection of novels that step outside the human perspective, inviting readers into the minds of animals. From intimate character studies to unsettling psychological tales, these stories use animal narrators to explore grief, survival, morality, and what it really means to be human.

One of several Non-Humans & Empathy -themed lists by @Myth.Ink (See also: Fiction, GNs/Manga+, Non-Fiction, Creature Feature, & the Official @Myth.Ink Curation) | This list is the YOUTH TITLES edition, including fictional and real, visually depicted, interactions and considerations of interactions between non-human beings of all types (trees, robots, animals, ai, aliens, creatures, monsters, etc) and humans, empathy and lack thereof. | Includes titles aimed at audiences up through MG | Suggestions more than welcome!

So you like dolphins?

the books you read during recess instead of playing kickball

The works of Carl Hiaasen.

Those books that try their best to cover those awkward topics in a way children can understand or books that cover big feelings.