1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change

Publisher Edition(Candlewick Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 803698 Available

Dewey: 900/NAges: 12-16   


Genres:

Subjects: Revolutions Conflict management Social change

Summary: Explores a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake.

Awakening of Malcolm X by Shabazz, Ilyasah 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021)

BTSB #: 804724 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: X, Malcolm,|d1925-1965 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Prisoners - Fiction Reformers - Fiction Racism - Fiction Civil rights - Fiction Black Muslims - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.

Jane against the world : Roe v. Wade and the fight for reproductive rights by Blumenthal, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 128853 Available

Dewey: 362.198/NAges: 14-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Abortion Women's rights

Summary: A journalistic look at the history of abortion and reproductive rights in the United States.

Kent State by Wiles, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 947691 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 640 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Novels in verse Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 - Fiction Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements - Fiction Colleges and universities - Fiction Kent (Ohio) - History|y20th century

Summary: Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.

Shout : a poetry memoir by Anderson, Laurie Halse 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2019)

BTSB #: 059013 Available

Dewey: 811.6/BAges: 14-18   
AR: 7.5 UG Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: Anderson, Laurie Halse Rape victims - Poetry Women authors - Poetry

Summary: When she was thirteen years old, Anderson was a shy, bookish girl who was raped by a boy she trusted. She has since become known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed in the years since, she has written a poetry memoir that shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before.

Sing and shout : the mighty voice of Paul Robeson by Rubin, Susan Goldman 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2020)

BTSB #: 769569 Available

Dewey: 782/BAges: 12-17   
Lexile: 1050

Genres:

Subjects: Robeson, Paul,|d1898-1976 Entertainers - Biography Celebrities - Fiction African Americans - Biography Civil rights workers - Biography

Summary: This biography explores the tumultuous and passionate life of activist, singer, and actor Paul Robeson.

Strike! : the farm workers' fight for their rights by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2014)

BTSB #: 151828 Available

Dewey: 331/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.5 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1220

Genres:

Subjects: Chavez, Cesar,|d1927-1993 United Farm Workers Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 Filipino Americans Mexican Americans Migrant labor

Summary: Oral histories, FBI files, personal diaries, letters, and newspapers tell the dramatic story of the Delano grape strike and the rise (and fall) of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America.

Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot by Conkling, Winifred 

BTSB Prebound(Algonquin Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 235489 Available

Dewey: 324.6/NAges: 12-16   
RC: 10.4 6-8 Lexile: 1100

Genres:

Subjects: Women - Suffrage - United States - History Suffragists - United States - History Women's rights - United States - History

Summary: The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote.

World beneath by Warman, Janice 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 920553 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.6 MG+ Lexile: 650 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Anti-apartheid movements - Fiction South Africa - Fiction

Summary: In 1970s South Africa eleven-year-old Joshua, living with his mother in their employer's house, rescues a freedom fighter on the run and, becoming aware of the political situation around him, makes difficult choices that will change his life forever.