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Author
Series
Song below water volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Best friends, Tavia and Effie, struggle to hide their supernatural identities in a society that discriminates against people with their abilities.
2) I rise
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance." -- Epicreads.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Fitz, a black teenager surrounded by activism in a family rocked by tragedy, discovers that she has begun to receive parchment letters from Harriet Jacobs, the author of the autobiography and 1861 American classic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and sets out to use her own voice to make history.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep everyone safe, their lives turn upside down. It is one thing to learn that the outside world isn't safe, but why does it seem that the virus is causing trouble inside their homes too? As they each struggle to adjust to life in quarantine, they discover they are not alone: their apartment building...
8) Landry Park
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic, fractured United States where the oppressed Rootless handle the raw nuclear material that powers the Gentry's lavish lifestyle, seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry must choose between taking over her father's vast estate or rebelling against everything she has ever known, in the name of justice.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With a box of colored crayons and an eraser to rub things out, one child sets out to transform the world. By rubbing out hunger and coloring in wheat , the world can be fed. By rubbing out crying and coloring laughter , the world gets to sing, dance and be joyful. Told with poetic simplicity, this book shows how creative imagination through the use of color and imagery can change the world from bad to good.
10) Woke baby
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First board book edition.
Language
English
Description
A baby with awareness of social and racial justice issues wakes up for the day.
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