Affecting change can be hard. Especially when you must team up with someone you don’t always get along with. This book does a great job of showing that there isn’t just one right way to try and change the world. In fact, sometimes you need other people to help push you out of your comfort zone and challenge you to try new things. You never know what is going to draw people in until you try something. Resonating with people can be hard, but to affect change you need to step out on a limb and see what happens. Who knows along the way you might find that the people you think you could never work with might become people you can’t live without.
Thank you to Disney Audiobooks and Netgalley for allowing me to listen to a copy of this title.

Isa and Darius, while both share the purpose of saving the environment, seem to be at odds as to how best to do it. They are pretty much opposites of each other in every way: Darius is the son of a prominent lawyer, who has everything he needs and is on a one way track to Harvard. Isa is the daughter of a longshoreman and waitress, who has moved around more times than she can count, but who has finally been able to set down roots at this high school. When the school year kicks off, wildfires have been raging in the area, bringing smoke and destruction to their surroundings, causing many students to take notice in the school’s Environmental Justice club. This book is definitely more about the environment than romance, and while that might turn some away, it was really well written so that it didn’t feel pedantic. Readers get both views as it is told in both Darius’s and Isa’s voices. Characters are multicultural (Isa is Islander and Darius is African American) and the setting is along the Puget Sound in Washington. Highly recommended.

This was a great book. I liked how this book touched on topics that are ongoing. Bringing in culture, politics and romance without spice. This is rare for a YA book so I really appreciated it.

Well written and fantastically narrated! We Don't Have Time for This will resonate with many high school students who fight for change in their schools and home communities. This is a must have for all collections serving teens.

Title: We Don’t Have Time for This
Author: Briana Craft
Format: 🎧
Narrator: Angel Pean
Publisher: Disney Audiobooks/Hyperion
Genre: Teen/YA
Audiobook Pub Date was: July 2, 2024
My Rating: 3.4 Stars
Pages: 272

Story starts with high school student Isa Brown dealing with yet another wildfire endangering her community.. As a high school Guidance Counselor in Southern California wild fires have become a year round threat. We have very little rain and a lot of hillside dry fields. In fact, we have had had a ‘no burn’ restriction for several years – no outside bon fires as well as indoor fires in our home fireplaces. It is beyond me why we are allowed to have fireworks on the 4th. (I sound like one of the teens in the environment club!)

Isa also has concerns about a new pipeline threatening her father's job.
She is hoping her involvement in the school's environmental justice club will make a difference. She and Darius Freeman are co-presidents. Only Darius has a different focus. His goal is to get into a highly selective college. With a goal of going into political aspirations, and figures this will look good on his college application (Unfortunately this line of thinking is too true of many students,)
Needless to say, Isa and Darius clash a bit over club goals.
When Darius finally takes a good look what's truly at stake in their community he works with Isa on his ambitions as well as what environmental action, they need to be collaborate on.

Yes! I did like this story and know that high school teens really do want to make a difference and yes they find the time to do it!

Want to thank Disney NetGalley and Disney Audiobooks/Hyperion for granted me this audiobook.
Publishing Release Date was July 2, 2024.