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English
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How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013], ♭2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series--
3) Reckoning
Author
Language
English
Description
"The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues -- political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
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Language
English
Description
"Symone's honest and profound reflection on standing up and speaking out is sure to inspire young people across the country to become the change agents the world needs." — Congresswoman Maxine Waters
In this rousing call to leadership, the self-described millennial spokesperson for the culture, CNN's designated "woke AF" former commentator, and the youngest national press secretary in the history of the United
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
Diversifying my Bookshelf
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: January 24, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 9, 2023
Diversifying my Bookshelf
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: January 24, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 9, 2023
Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
113 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated book with profiles of the men and women who have revolutionized politics, policy, and activism, with a focus on their accomplishments that were 'firsts' in their fields"--
10) The revisionists
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An agent from the future where all the world's problems have been solved goes back in time to ensure that every disaster throughout history runs its course.
Author
Language
English
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 19, 2022
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: June 4, 2023
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: June 4, 2023
Description
"A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book written and illustrated by Janet Wilson features 10 children who are social, political, and environmental activists from around the world who are making a difference in their communities, and countries. The children are concrete examples for other kids, to show that youre never too young to mitigate change. From racism to cyber bullying, from gun violence to animal protection, they dont let their youth stop them from being heard....
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a memoir about living, loving, dreaming, daring, and driving while female--in a country where it's dangerous to do all of the above. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was religious radical, melting her brother's boy band CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law....
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We are all living through modern constitutional history in the making, and Ordinary Equality helps teach about the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through the lives of bold fearless women. Based on author Kate Kelly's acclaimed podcast of the same name, Ordinary Equality recounts a story a century in the making-about how constitutional equality for women and Americans of all marginalized genders has been systematically...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Biographical collection of ten female figures who changed the world by standing up for what's right and offering an inspirational call to action, reminding everyone that they can be forces for change when they stand up!"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction introduction to thirteen principles underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and organization, written in a style that children can understand and illustrated with portraits of icons, activists, and regular people"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of seventeen for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked by a powerful group in Pakistan who wanted women to remain in the shadows. She continues to fight for women's rights and free education for children all over the world"--
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