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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times. Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change and the defeat of outrageous proposals, even in challenging...
44) The Arab Spring
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
This volume explores the topic of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began in late 2010, by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that surround this issue. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading...
45) Vietnam War
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Provides details on the Vietnam War, including the Tet Offensive, the American involvement, and anti-war protests in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Throughout, it is populated by contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
"This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two...
51) The not wives
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and polyamorous girlfriends, they piece together a new American identity of resistance--against financial precarity, gentrifying New York, and the traditional role of a wife.
52) Descerebrados
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
''En Descerebrados, la entrega más reciente de la serie superventas Diario del Wimpy Kid, dependerá de Greg que cierren o no para siempre el instituto por el que ha pasado sin pena ni gloria. Un auténtico fenómeno mundial. Hasta ahora, el instituto no ha sido lo que diríamos un camino de rosas para Greg Heffley. Así que cuando la ciudad amenaza con cerrar el edificio porque está en ruinas, a Greg no se le ve muy afectado. Pero cuando se...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow. For hundreds of years,...
54) Anger is a gift
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals their own school. New rules. Random locker searches. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this indispensable essay, Tom Hayden, a principal anti-Vietnam War organizer, calls to account elites who want to forget the Vietnam peace movement and excoriates those who trivialize its impact, engage in caricature of protesters and question their patriotism. In so doing, he seeks both a reckoning and a healing of national memory.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government’s ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times.- Amazon
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
58) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring and moving graphic novel, Wildfire follows climate change through the eyes of one middle-school girl, who’s eager to turn her anger into action. Julianna loved her life in rural Oregon. She loved taking care of her farm animals and being part of her local 4H club. But then the unthinkable happened...a wildfire destroyed her family’s home. In the aftermath, her family relocated to Portland, Oregon, where Julianna hopes to put everything...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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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