This book brings together informative biographies of 600 men and women who were the principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times.

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. But with much to stand up and shout about, where do they begin? This guide will remind you that you can be the change you wish to see in the world.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai turns the faceless statistics and endless news stories about displacement into real people—introducing a small fraction of the millions worldwide who have fled home in this powerful and "stirring" (New York Times) account. 
After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother....

"A nonfiction collection of profiles of prominent activists for young readers"--

The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.

“The most essential English-language novelist of our time.” —New York

Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed...

"Sarah and Angelina Grimke -- the Grimke sisters -- are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents...

A biography of first lady and social reformer Eleanor Roosevelt, who was involved in politics, the fight for women's rights, and world peace.

Publisher Annotation: Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans. Her story is told with lyricism and pathos by Gary D. Schmidt, one of the most celebrated writers for children in the twenty-first century, and brought...

Tells the story of how Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas became friends who fought for freedom.