Violence
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The Big Bad Wolf in My House
$19.99 Add to cartA young girl describes what it’s like when her mom’s new friend comes to stay — a moving story about domestic violence that ends on a hopeful note.
The young girl tells us that her mom’s new friend i
- Author: Fontaine, Valérie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1773065017
- Language: English
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Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence
$16.99 Read moreThis important follow-up to the bestselling, groundbreaking, and inspiring Something Happened in Our Town, is a much-needed story to help communities in the aftermath of gun violence.
Goddard Riversid- Series: Something Happened
- Author: Hazzard, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1433835215
- Language: English
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Living Dead Girl
$11.99 Add to cartOnce upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.
Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her famil- Author: Scott, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1416960600
- Language: English
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The Duel: A Story about Peace
$18.95 Add to cartAn international award-winning picture book with increasingly detailed water-color art begins as a story about quarrels and conflicts, but is, above all, about making and finding peace.
Loosely based- Author: Oliveira, In?s Viegas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644214024
- Language: English
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Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety
$12.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning author Michelle Roehm McCann comes a young activist’s handbook to joining the fight against gun violence–both in your community and on a national level–to make schools safer for e… [more below]
- Author: Roehm McCann, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1582707014
- Language: English
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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
$15.99 Read moreBased on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her h
- Author: Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0062696734
- Language: English
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A Moment Comes
$11.99 Read more“Historical fiction that brings its history to bloody, poignant life: rare and notable.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Before India was divided, three teens, each from wildly different backgrounds- Author: Bradbury, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1534439498
- Language: English
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Surrender
$7.99 Read moreSURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett.
I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the o- Author: Hartnett, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 153620644X
- Language: English
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The Day War Came
$8.99 Read moreA moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee.
The day war came there were flowers- Author: Davies, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1536215937
- Language: English
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A Heart in a Body in the World
$18.99 Read more“This is one for the ages.” –Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay
“A book everyone should read right now.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A vital and heartbreaking story that brings… [more below]- Author: Caletti, Deb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1481415204
- Language: English
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Tap Out
$9.95 Read moreIt was supposed to be a brand-new start for him. But old instincts die hard, and Dar is used to fighting for everything.
When Darwin’s father went to prison for assault, his mom decided it was time to
- Series: Orca Soundings
- Author: Rodman, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1459808754
- Language: English
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Inside Out
$15.99 Add to cartIn a busy coffee shop, a robbery goes wrong. Two gunmen hold seven hostages, including teenager Zach Wahhsted. What nobody realizes at first is that Zach is anything but ordinary and his troubled mind
- Author: Trueman, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0064473767
- Language: English
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The Outsiders
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published by Viking in 1967, The Outsiders immediately resonated with young adults. This groundbreaking novel was like nothing else out there–it was honest and gritty, and was a deeply sympathe… [more below]
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0670062510
- Language: English
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
$24.99 Read moreA decade after its release, the astonishing opener to Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy still resonates. Celebrate ten years of this groundbreaking book with a beautiful anniversary hardcover editi… [more below]
- Series: Chaos Walking #1
- Author: Ness, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1536200530
- Language: English
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Why Do We Fight?: Conflict, War, and Peace
$15.95 Read moreBattles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don’t seem to have much in common, but they’re really just two ways of handling a dispute… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Niki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1771473541
- Language: English
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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
$11.99 Add to cartSusanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn’t realize is that the girls are about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to th… [more below]
- Series: Great Episodes
- Author: Rinaldi, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0152046828
- Language: English
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Naughts & Crosses
$21.99 Read moreCallum is a naught, a second-class citizen in a society run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, and daughter of the man slated to become prime minister. In their world, white naughts and black Cr… [more below]
- Author: Blackman, Malorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416900160
- Language: English
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Takedown
$12.99 Add to cartA teen infiltrates a drug ring to settle a vendetta in this fast-paced novel from the author of Street Pharm and Snitch.
Darren took the fall for Diamond Tony, the notorious head of the city’s drug ca- Author: Van Diepen, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1442463120
- Language: English
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Ghost Boys
$12.99 Read moreLarge Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in
- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: December 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1432873733
- Language: English
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
$15.95 Read moreOne of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two con… [more below]
- Author: Dau, John Bul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 142630708X
- Language: English
