Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography
$24.99 Add to cartInspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Ri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690773
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life
$15.99 Add to cart2023 IPNE Award Finalist, Young Adult
2022 Foreword INDIES Winner, Honorable Mention, Juvenile Nonfiction
Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an Afri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690765
- Language: English
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Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington
$13.95 Add to cartChosen a Best Children’s Book of the Year by the Bank Street Center!
Voted a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews!
A biography for younger readers about one of the most inf
- Author: Houtman, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 087286765X
- Language: English
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Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn
$19.95 Add to cartThe daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona’s Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as t
- Author: Mochizuki, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324015888
- Language: English
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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
$16.99 Read moreGrateful American Book Prize Book of Honorable Mention
As a teenager, Mary Edwards Walker determined she would no longer wear the confining corsets and long skirts society dictated women wear at the
- Author: Latta, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728413923
- Language: English
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Imaginary Borders
$9.99 Add to cart“It won’t take you long to read this book, but it will linger in your heart and head for quite a while, and perhaps inspire you to join in the creative, blossoming movement to make this world work.” –… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Martinez, Xiuhtezcatl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0593094131
- Language: English
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From Here
$18.99 Add to cartIn her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.
With no word for “g- Author: Mufleh, Luma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593354451
- Language: English
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young People
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“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!”–Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Aw… [more below]- Series: Revisioning History for Young People
- Author: Theoharis, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807067571
- Language: English
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
$19.99 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, H… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0593461606
- Language: English
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Beyond the Gender Binary
$8.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
“When reading this book, all I feel is kindness.”– Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter “Thank God we have Alok. And I’m learning a- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Vaid-Menon, Alok
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593094654
- Language: English
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The New Queer Conscience
$8.99 Add to cartA 2021 Sydney Taylor Notable Book
“The new manifesto for how we as queer people could and should navigate the world. It’s the holding hand I never had–but wish I did.”–Troye Sivan, Golden Globe nomi- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Eli, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593093682
- Language: English
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Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
$16.95 Add to cartAs featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong.
“- Author: Heumann, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 080700359X
- Language: English
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We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
$12.99 Add to cartNobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless statistics and endless news stories about displacement into real people–introducing a small fraction… [more below]
- Author: Yousafzai, Malala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 316523658
- Language: English
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Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich
$20.95 Add to cart“No Natives or Dogs Allowed,” blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after bec
- Author: Boochever, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 16, 2019
- ISBN10: 1602233705
- Language: English
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
$14.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now in paperback for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic St
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593461614
- Language: English
