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1) No brainer
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it s shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best...
2) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her home burns down, Julianna moves to a new town to start over, but learns that the boy who started the fire goes to her new school"--
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Rocket finds out her town's library is closing, she rallies support from her peers, and together they lead a peaceful protest that spreads awareness and raises enough money to save their beloved library.
4) La protesta
Author
Series
Confetti kids volume 10
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"En este nuevo libro de la serie popular Confetti Kids, Lily y sus amigos organizan una protesta para evitar que el huerto comunitario sea demolido. Lily y sus amigos reciben la noticia de que su querido huerto comunitario se va a convertir en un estacionamiento. Organizan una protesta, avisando a amigos, vecinos y reporteros para que los ayuden a salvar el huerto. ¿Dará resultado su protesta?" -- Adapted from back cover.
"Lily and her friends...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year old Essie believes that Black people should be allowed to vote, and she's willing to march for that right. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Essie puts on her best dress to join protesters as they plan to visit the governor in Montgomery, Alabama. But as the 600 marchers approach the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, they are stopped by angry state troopers who will do whatever it takes to stop the peaceful protesters."
Author
Series
Expectant detectives mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Being a new mom is murder. Alice didn't think her maternity leave would involve so much, well, murder. Before becoming proud new moms, she and her friends bonded more than members of a prenatal group usually would, as they became accidental amateur sleuths and solved a crime together. Now, with all this behind them and Alice's son Jack somehow already a year old, Alice is keen to finally catch up on some sleep. So when an opportunity presents itself...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign-ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.
It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo—that of a Minneapolis police officer...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"James Weldon Johnson was a man of words. He wrote 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' a poem so uplifting and inspiring it became known as the Black national anthem. James was also a leader of the NAACP, and many people turned to him for advice in troubling times. And then was one of those times. White people were hurting Black people in scary and shocking ways. In July 1917, James helped lead thousands of children and adults in the Silent Protest Parade...
12) Walkout
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the film describes how L.A.'s public schools treat Mexican-American students in 1968, with a mixture of negligence, apathy, and occasional cruelty. Graduation rates are low, students caught speaking Spanish in class are paddled on the spot, they are denied access to bathrooms at lunch. Paula Crisostomo is smart and gets good grades, but when she attends a student leadership conference at a wealthy Westside facility, she begins...
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