An accessible guide to the issues around animal welfare for young people examining how the everyday choices they make affect animals and the environment.

This guide for older children and young teenagers demystifies the morals and ethics around animals, wildlife and the environment. How can we follow a cruelty-free diet? What are the ethics around pet ownership? What are the issues around show animals—zoos, circuses, and holiday attractions? Why are insects important? This essential book teaches us how to question ourselves, our family, our friends, and society, and make the right choices to live a cruelty-free life.

Linda Newbery is the author of fiction for children, teenagers and adults, with books including Lob, The Shell House, Sisterland and The Brockenspectre; her young adult novel Set in Stone won the Costa Children s Prize and she has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She is a long-term supporter of welfare and environmental organisations.