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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A nonfiction picture book compilation of the stories of 13 American women who persisted in overcoming obstacles and changing the world"--Provided by publisher.
"Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted. Throughout American history, there have always been women...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Effie Jones, a former slave, escaped to the Union side as a child. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies, and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she returns to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings. Encounters with a charismatic state legislator...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents'...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A steampunk retelling of Cinderella. Emmeline O'shea has been an outspoken advocate for the shapeshifter community, which has come under unjust attack from a political body known as the PSRC (Predatory Shifter Regulations Committee), and her robust efforts have landed her a prestigious position as the spokesperson for the International Shifter Rights Organization. She has been selected to give the final address in Scotland before they vote on legislation...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement. Emma González called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. The uprising had begun. Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists and brought them together...
Author
Series
Gospel according to Larry volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of hiding and returns to public life, this time to run for President as an advocate for issues of concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals, a daughter for Pam and Daniel; a solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane, the three friends share in one another's successes, working together to elevate Joe's superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city's unfathomable devastation coincided...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across...
12) Rampage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes.
"A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America--and the founding of a movement that demands restorative justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane Maria. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
Author
Series
Gospel according to Larry volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Larry (otherwise known as Josh) is in the doldrums, but after meeting a spiritual guru at Walden Pond who convinces him to join his study group, he starts to question his grasp of reality.
16) Broken verses
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Overview: Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Examine what it means to be a global citizen, and learn about the rights and responsibilities that we all have." -- from Amazon.com summary.
The basic human rights-- a safe environment, freedom of expression, education-- are right that are worked for and defended around the world. Knutson shows how young people can protect and promote rights equality, within and beyond their own communities. The book includes investigative activities and research...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Malala Yousafzai, describing her family's background, education, and her work as an education activist. Readers will also learn about the Islam religion and the Taliban.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After a middle-class Republican childhood and a few years as a Communist sympathizer, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for almost fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic, political radical, and a rebel who courted controversy, she attracted three generations of admirers. Day went to jail challenging the draft and the war in Vietnam. She was critical of capitalism and foreign policy, and as skeptical of modern...
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