Combining facts, charts, photographs, and stories, describes how readers can enact change in the world around them and find solutions for such global problems as climate change, poverty, gender inequality, and homelessness.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part I. It's your economy. $1.25 a day : poverty around the world ; $32 a day : poverty in America -- Part II. It's your right. Time for school ; We're not there yet : gender equality -- Part III. It's your body. Staying healthy ; Viruses and vaccines ; Bugs and bacteria -- Part IV. It's your environment. Weather report ; Too close to gone : endangered species -- It's your world.