It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going

Gr 5 Up—This effort aims to help young people understand their world and provide the motivation to preserve it, addressing a wide variety of topics, including poverty both globally and in the United States, education, gender equality, health and disease, and the environment. Each section is given an easy-to-understand overview, and Clinton, who also narrates, relates her personal experiences and gives background knowledge about the general topic and relevant issues. For example, when discussing health and disease, she shares her research and knowledge about the anti-vaccination movement, information about health problems affecting the poor disproportionately, and heart disease, which she learned about when her father underwent coronary bypass surgery. There is a lot of material covered here, and the audiobook may be more appropriate for an older age group than middle school level. Clinton speaks clearly and at a moderate pace, though with less passion or emotion in her voice than one would hope for such important ideas. A downloadable PDF provides much of the non-narrative material (charts, photos, graphs, website information) found in the book.