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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Book List for SOU Education Courses
Classics with YA Pairs
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Hate U Give
Classics with YA Pairs
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Hate U Give
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: The Closest I?ve Come is a must-read from talented first-time author Fred Aceves, in the tradition of Walter Dean Myers. Marcos Rivas yearns for love, a working cell phone, and maybe a pair of sneakers that aren?t falling apart. But more than anything, Marcos wants to get out of Maesta, his hood, away from his indifferent mom and her abusive boyfriend?which seems impossible. When Marcos is placed in a new after-school program,...
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Español
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Este libro nos acompaña como lectores a través de la identificación del racismo en toda su variedad de manifestaciones al tiempo que nos hace visibles las formas en las que hemos interiorizado estas ideas y nos permite contrastarlas con una aproximación plenamente antirracista. Si bien Kendi habla de su experiencia y perspectiva como hombre negro estadounidense, sus descripciones de las dinámicas de agresión y resistencia resultan inmensamente...
6) The getaway
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
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Language
English
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2023 Stoker Awards Final Ballot
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
2023 Youth Media Awards
Pura Belpré Award Winners 2013-2023 / Los ganadores del premio Pura Belpré: 2013-2023
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
9) All my rage
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family....
10) Yes no maybe so
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Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs?creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
13) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school ? and first love.
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Language
English
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Banned Books Week: Nonfiction
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book...
15) Going dark
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English
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When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's past.
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English
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This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.
18) Survive the Dome
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Language
English
Description
"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
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Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. "In a racist society, it's not enough to be non-racist-we must be ANTI-RACIST." -Angela Davis Gain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through...
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