Civil & Human Rights
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Great Lives in Graphics: Mandela
$14.99 Add to cartGreat Lives in Graphics: Mandela is a graphic retelling of Mandela’s story which gives
children a visual snapshot of his life and long fight for freedom, while
educating them on everything from the hist… [more below]- Series: Great Lives in Graphics
- Author: Graphics, Great Lives in
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1787081362
- Language: English
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (National Book Award Finalist)
$15.99 Read moreAn astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.
A National Book Award Finalist
A YALSA Award for Excellence- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250073499
- Language: English
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Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
$14.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . Defiant . . . Pulling back the curtain on 100 years of struggle . . . The women who shaped the American narrative come to life with refreshing attention to detail.”–The New York Times B… [more below]
- Author: Conkling, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1616209887
- Language: English
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Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us
$14.99 Add to cartRewritten especially for the young reader, Carved in Ebony by Jasmine Holmes inspires with insights from the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Amanda Berry Smith, Mamie Till, and oth… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Jasmine L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0764238868
- Language: English
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Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World
$15.99 Add to cart“Accessible and enlightening. . . . Whether considered individually or taken as a whole, these crucial topics will shape the future, and the Josephs want readers to be ready to join the conversation.”… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1536233021
- Language: English
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Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus)
$8.99 Add to cartThis NPR Best Book of 2020 is an extraordinary true account of the enormous tragedy of the Syrian civil conflict.
Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians ha
- Author: Abouzeid, Rania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338551140
- Language: English
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Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss
$22.95 Add to cartIn 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss). As the first Black American admitted to the school, he demonstrated great courage amidst the subsequent p
- Author: Goudsouzian, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168226212X
- Language: English
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Simple Acts: The Busy Teen’s Guide to Making a Difference
$16.99 Read moreSimple and actionable tools to help busy young people make a difference in the world.
Young people can make a difference in the world no matter how busy they are. Simple Acts shows them how, with easy- Author: Silverstein, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1631986260
- Language: English
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They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds
$14.99 Add to cartThey Called Me 299-359 is an anthology of poetry and essays written, edited, and compiled by incarcerated youth who are Free Minds Book Club members, held both at the DC Jail and in adult federal faci
- Author: Writers, Free Minds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1950807150
- Language: English
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The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found
$18.99 Read moreAn unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time–and bravely proceeding anyway–inside the Katsikas refugee camp in Greece.
Every war, famine, and flood spits out survivors. The Unite- Author: Nayeri, Dina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1536213624
- Language: English
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Unequal: A Story of America
$12.99 Add to cartFinalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award
New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau show how racial inequality perm- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0759557039
- Language: English
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
$19.99 Read moreThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of cul
- Author: Hartfield, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667992
- Language: English
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The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging
$24.95 Read morePeople with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours.
The difference is that PWDs don’t have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation
- Series: Orca Issues
- Author: Leavitt, Hannalora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1459819284
- Language: English
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Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Candy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1662620136
- Language: English
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Taking on the Plastics Crisis
$9.99 Add to cart“Taking on the Plastics Crisis delivers straightforward advise for getting involved in the global movement to eliminate single-use plastics.” — Booklist, Starred Review
“Brief yet inspirational, this- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Testa, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 593223330
- Language: English
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
$17.99 Read moreThe instant New York Times bestseller
Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists a… [more below]- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1536217018
- Language: English
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One Person, No Vote (YA Edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally
$19.99 Add to cartA timely and essential history of Black voter suppression, adapted from the National Book Award longlisted adult book
This young adult adaptation brings to light the shocking truth about how not every- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1547601078
- Language: English
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Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
$13.95 Read moreA book about the fight for queer rights, beautifully illustrated with bold and beautiful illustrations by pop artist Eve Lloyd Knight.
Around one o’clock in the morning on June 28, 1969, police raided- Author: Lawson, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717914
- Language: English
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Stay Up: Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom
$14.99 Add to cartAn incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.
Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where
- Author: Dill, Khodi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1773218085
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
$16.95 Read moreCentering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a dri
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 164421265X
- Language: English
