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24 books recommended for fans of When September Ends by Dave Urwin, tied together by themes of Social Activists, Education, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Education Is Power A Snippet of the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois — Lenny Williams

Education Is Power A Snippet of the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

El Curso de la Raza The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor — Aurelio M. Montemayor

El Curso de la Raza The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor

Aurelio M. Montemayor

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Middle School Sleuths How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees — Fern Schumer Chapman

Middle School Sleuths How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees

Fern Schumer Chapman

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

One by One, the Stars Essays — Ned Stuckey-French

One by One, the Stars Essays

Ned Stuckey-French

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Terlingua Teacher The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse. — Trent Jones

Terlingua Teacher The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Learning America One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children — Luma Mufleh

Learning America One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

The Essential Dick Gregory — Dick Gregory

The Essential Dick Gregory

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

The Teen Guide to Global Action How to Connect with Others (near & Far) to Create Social Change — Barbara A. Lewis

The Teen Guide to Global Action How to Connect with Others (near & Far) to Create Social Change

Barbara A. Lewis

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Warriors Don’t Cry Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock — Melba Beals

Warriors Don’t Cry Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

The ABCs of the Black Panther Party — Chemay Morales-James

The ABCs of the Black Panther Party

Chemay Morales-James

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

My First Thirty Years A Memoir — Gertrude Beasley

My First Thirty Years A Memoir

Gertrude Beasley

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Shades of Brown The Official Biography of Jane Elliott and the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Exercise — Todd M Mealy

Shades of Brown The Official Biography of Jane Elliott and the Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Exercise

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Blazing the Way Match Girls, Mill Girls and Other Fiery Females Whose Strikes Sparked a Revolution in Women’s Rights — Elise Baker

Blazing the Way Match Girls, Mill Girls and Other Fiery Females Whose Strikes Sparked a Revolution in Women’s Rights

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Cut Short Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City — Ciaran Thapar

Cut Short Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Up from Chester Hiroshima, Haverford and Beyond — Allan Brick

Up from Chester Hiroshima, Haverford and Beyond

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

That Librarian The Fight Against Book Banning in America — Amanda Jones

That Librarian The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Witness Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom — Ariel Burger

Witness Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Parkland Birth of a Movement — Dave Cullen

Parkland Birth of a Movement

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Living in Mississippi The Life and Times of Evans Harrington — Robert W. Hamblin

Living in Mississippi The Life and Times of Evans Harrington

Robert W. Hamblin

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Seven Sisters and a Brother Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.) — Marilyn Allman Maye

Seven Sisters and a Brother Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.)

Marilyn Allman Maye

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

The Promise of a Pencil How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change — Adam Braun

The Promise of a Pencil How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Students for a Democratic Society A Graphic History — Harvey Pekar

Students for a Democratic Society A Graphic History

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

Revolution from Within A Book of Self-Esteem — Gloria Steinem

Revolution from Within A Book of Self-Esteem

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

I Am Rosa Parks — Rosa Parks

I Am Rosa Parks

Themes: Social Activists • Education • Biography & Autobiography

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with When September Ends by Dave Urwin. Connected by Social Activists, Education, Biography & Autobiography. Authors featured include Lenny Williams, Aurelio M. Montemayor, Fern Schumer Chapman, Ned Stuckey-French, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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