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Author
Publisher
Wings Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920's, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma learns to care deeply about poverty and hunger during a time when many Mexican Americans were starving to death and working unreasonably long hours at slave wages in the city's pecan-shelling factories. Through astute perception, caring, and personal action, Emma begins to get involved...
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
She had expected to hate him. But hate, just like forgiveness, can be complicated. The true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana was still not prepared for what she would see and hear. Listening to Groening’s testimony and to the Holocaust...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab ™
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honoree "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
“A captivating, classic story about two people who ‘shouldn’t’ be together . . . readers will be cheering them on until its satisfying conclusion.” —Booklist Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand that—or allow it . . . Isa is a dancer. She’d love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren’t dead set against it . . ....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is ""never going to stand by and say nothing again.""A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- Surrounded by her large family, Loma is happy living in the judería of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and wants nothing more than to someday have a family of her own. Still, when her intimidating grandfather, her Belo, decides to bring her along on his travels, she’s excited to join him. Belo has the ear of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, and Loma relishes her adventures with him, adventures that are beyond the scope of most girls of the time....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
-- The Hate U Give""Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making."" (Publishers Weekly
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the author's real life experiences, this rollicking, charming novel follows sixth grade Egyptian immigrant Nadia as she navigates the ups and downs of friendships, racism, and some magic, too!Nadia loves fun facts. Here are a few about her:• She collects bobbleheads -- she has 77 so far.• She moved from Egypt to America when she was six years old.• The hippo amulet she wears is ancient... as in it's literally from ancient Egypt.•...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson unearths the heroic stories of Jewish survivors from different countries so that we may never forget the past.As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An empowering handbook on how to have candid conversations around race and become a better advocate, written by a Black woman and a white woman who ask and answer 20 common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism. Many people struggle to have honest conversations about race, even those who consider themselves allies or identify as anti-racist. For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions, COURAGEOUS DISCOMFORT is an...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- online and making new friends. It’s there he realizes he’s been playing with Finn, a kid from his class. Finn is the first person who might be just as angry as Declan--he gets it. As the two spend more time together, Finn also introduces Declan to others who understand what it’s like when the world is working against you, no matter how much you try. How white kids like them are being denied opportunities because others are manipulating the...
Author
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your best friend becomes the enemy? Growing up in Newark, NJ, in the 1930s, Tommy Anspach and Benjy Puterman have always done everything together. It never mattered that Benjy was Jewish and Tommy was of German descent. But as Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party comes to power in Germany and war brews in Europe, everything changes. Tommy is sent to Camp Nordland, a Nazi youth camp for German Americans, where he quickly learns that...
16) No te calles
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Si ves que alguien comete una injusticia a tu lado...Hagamos del mundo, entre todos, un lugar mejor.Es momento de cambiar. Javier Ruescas Benito TaiboFa Orozco Sara Fratini
18) Jackie & Me
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
-- bestselling author Dan Gutman takes readers on a page-turning trip through baseball’s past.
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