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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

Michael Bennett

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

One Life: Young Readers Edition — Megan Rapinoe

One Life: Young Readers Edition

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Up from Slavery — Booker Washington

Up from Slavery

Booker Washington

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

The Worth of Water Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World’s Greatest Challenge — Gary White

The Worth of Water Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World’s Greatest Challenge

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

All the Young Men — Ruth Coker Burks

All the Young Men

Ruth Coker Burks

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

The Education of Kevin Powell A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood — Kevin Powell

The Education of Kevin Powell A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Loud Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve — Drew Afualo

Loud Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Now I Know Who My Comrades Are Voices from the Internet Underground — Emily Parker

Now I Know Who My Comrades Are Voices from the Internet Underground

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers — Jeremy Dronfield

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers

Jeremy Dronfield

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change Courageous Actions Around the World — Garth Sundem

Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change Courageous Actions Around the World

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

America’s Youngest Ambassador The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace — Lena Nelson

America’s Youngest Ambassador The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Drawn to Change the World Graphic Novel Collection 16 Youth Climate Activists, 16 Artists: a Graphic Novel — Emma Reynolds

Drawn to Change the World Graphic Novel Collection 16 Youth Climate Activists, 16 Artists: a Graphic Novel

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

When the Creator Moves Me — Shelley Muniz

When the Creator Moves Me

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time — Greg Mortenson

Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Going Within A Guide for Inner Transformation — Shirley MacLaine

Going Within A Guide for Inner Transformation

Shirley MacLaine

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Simone de Beauvoir (Little People, Big Dream) — Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Simone de Beauvoir (Little People, Big Dream)

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

It’s Her Story Rosa Parks a Graphic Novel — Lauren Burke

It’s Her Story Rosa Parks a Graphic Novel

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

In Byron’s Wake The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace — Miranda Seymour

In Byron’s Wake The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace

Miranda Seymour

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults) A True Story of the Fight for Justice — Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults) A True Story of the Fight for Justice

Bryan Stevenson

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

The Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion — Tony McAleer

The Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Ida B. Wells Lynching, Our National Crime — Rebecca Sjonger

Ida B. Wells Lynching, Our National Crime

Rebecca Sjonger

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Young Trailblazers: the Book of Black Heroes and Groundbreakers The Book of Black Heroes and Overcomers — M. J. Fievre

Young Trailblazers: the Book of Black Heroes and Groundbreakers The Book of Black Heroes and Overcomers

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body — Rebekah Taussig

Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

Themes: Social Activists • Biography & Autobiography

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