A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ books. These are the children's books they relied on.

I decided to sort books into 20 categories, identifying the single best of each. Because I couldn’t bear to shun the splendid titles that fell just short, you can find runners-up below each entry.

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. We climbed into the NPR archives to find some of our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction, and kids' lit — get ready to branch out.