While profit-hungry corporations and a tech billionaire obsessed with colonizing Mars seek to exploit these new powers, the teenagers hatch a high-stakes plan—described as a "climate heist"—to launch a global rewilding effort from the International Space Station. Themes and Style Book Review: GREEN RISING by Lauren James

: The daughter of a powerful oil tycoon and heir to an energy empire that contributes to the very crisis they are fighting.

: A fisherman's son whose family is struggling due to corporate environmental damage.

by Lauren James is a speculative young adult (YA) novel that blends climate-change activism with magical realism. Set in a near-future world facing ecological collapse, the story follows a generation of teenagers who develop "Greenfingers"—a supernatural ability to grow plants directly from their skin. Core Premise and Plot

: A fervent climate activist and the first person to manifest Greenfingers power.

The novel centers on three main characters from vastly different backgrounds who must learn to cooperate to save the planet: