SDG Book Club

The SDG Book Club provides an opportunity for children to discover new voices and concepts from around the world in all six official UN languages. It sets the stage for educators and parents to open discussions with children about each of the SDGs over the course of 17 months.

The reading lists will be displayed here as they are released for each of the Sustainable Development Goals

Titles that are already available through BHA library are shown with a * and are on a library resource list which also includes downloadable comics from Comics Uniting Nations

Goal 1: No Poverty

*Serafina’s Promise

*Last Stop on Market Street

*A Chair For My Mother


*The Happy Prince

Goal 2: Zero Hunger

*The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough

*Thank you Omu!

*The Lunch Thief

*Stone Soup

*Maddi’s Fridge

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being

*A handful of quiet: happiness in four pebbles

*What What What?

*I am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness

Goal 4: Quality Education

*Razia’s Ray of Hope

*Rain School

*When I was Eight

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

*Malala

*Bright sparks – amazing discoveries, inventions and designs by women

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

*One Well -The Story of Water on Earth

Water Stories from Around the World

Gizo, Gizo – A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

*The boy who harnessed the wind

*Iqbal and his Ingenious Idea

*What If We Run out of Oil?

Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

A Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins

*One Hen

Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank

Goal 9: Industries, Innovation, and Infrastructure

*Awesome Engineering

*Wild Buildings and Bridges

*Camilla Cartographer

One Plastic Bag

Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

*This Child, Every Child

A Home of Our Own

*Little Mouse and the Red Wall

I’m a Global Citizen: We’re All Equal

*The lost homework

*Potatoes On Rooftops: Farming in the City

Out of the way! Out of the way!

The Streets are Free

*Errol’s Garden

Goal 12: - Responsible Consumption and Production

*King Leonard's Teddy

*Join the No-Plastic Challenge

*The Curious Garden

*Saving the Earth

*What a waste!

Goal 13: - Climate Action

*No one is too small to make a difference

Big rain


Animal Rain

Goal 14: - Life Below Water

*The big book of the blue


*Water: a deep dive of discovery



*Shark Lady: the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist


*Head and tails: underwater

*If you want to visit a sea garden

Goal 15: - Life on Land

The bee tree

*Over and under the rainforest


*A forest in the city

The life cycle of a polar bear

*Wangari's trees of peace

*You're strong with me

*Hoot and Howl across the desert

Goal 16: - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Nelson Mandela- Father of Freedom

The Day Gogo Went to the Vote

Be the Change

Global Conflict

The Rainbow Falg

The Day the War Came


A Peaceful World


Goal 17: - Partnership for the Goals

Can we help?

What do you do with a problem?

The Youngest Marcher

Each Kindness

To Change a Planet