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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered"--
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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When Rocket finds out her town's library is closing, she rallies support from her peers, and together they lead a peaceful protest that spreads awareness and raises enough money to save their beloved library.
"Plucky activist Rocket returns in another inspiring picture book, rallying her community to SPEAK UP! to save their town library. When Rocket finds out that her town's library is closing, she knows something must be done. Inspired by the activism...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"According to a recent report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the number of mass protests has increased each year by over ten per cent. But we are not living in a world that is more just and democratic as a result. In If We Burn, acclaimed journalist and author of The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins sets out to answer a pivotal question: How did mass protest backfire in the 2010s? From the Arab Spring, to the Gezi Park...
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Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by ... artivist De Nichols"--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
When her parents discover that she is reading a book they consider inappropriate, 12-year-old June watches in horror as strict parenting escalates into the suspension of a librarian, the cancellation of an author appearance and a mass banning of books.
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Language
English
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The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Childrens Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gandhi walked from his Ashram near Ahmedabad to the sea coast by the village of Dandi. Fearing arrest, the marchers vowed to break the laws which did not allow Indians to gather salt from the sea.
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
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