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In the 1960s, no black political group stood for grassroots insurgency more than the Black Panther Party. The figure who embodied the militant and controversial spirit of the Black Panther Party more than anyone was Eldridge Cleaver. Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of white America. It was therefore shocking to many left-wing radicals when Cleaver turned his back...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history.
When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1976, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon...
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How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to...
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Olivier Chasson plonge au cœur des parcours rapides et déchirants des jeunes confrontés à des situations précaires, propulsés par les réseaux sociaux et des rencontres nocturnes. À travers ses expériences personnelles, il retrace le cheminement qui a conduit à la création du centre de Pontourny, tout en explorant les séquelles émotionnelles de l'abandon et de la perte d'estime de soi, ainsi que l'endoctrinement de certains jeunes par...
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Delight your students with this fascinating informational text that profiles the life of educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Students will gain a deeper understanding for what life was like back then, as they use higher order thinking skills to analyze historical events more critically. Build content knowledge with this e-Book that discusses topics in the different strands of social studies. The Mary McLeod Bethune: Education and...
726) Coat-A-Kid
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Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways Coat-A-Kid contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
727) What's Mine Is Yours
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Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways What's Mine Is Yours contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
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Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways Alex's Lemonade Stand contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve while fostering empathy and encouraging informed action in the community. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources...
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Education and Equality, profiles what life was like for this educator and civil rights activist. Students will develop their higher-order thinking skills and build vocabulary with this intriguing biography that is based on state standards. Implemented in the classroom or at home, this resource includes text features such as an index and glossary, and discusses different social studies topics. Bring the history of Florida to life...
730) Harper Lee
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This biography examines the life of Harper Lee using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Lee's family background, childhood, education, and time as a Pulitzer Prize-Winning author. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned...
731) Moses of Her People
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Moses Of Her People details the life of Harriet Tubman from childhood to adulthood who suffered tremendous abuse as a child and suffered a head injury as a teen that caused her to have seizures. As an adult, she escaped from slavery and later became a conductor of the Underground Railroad rescuing hundreds of slaves.
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The Boy With A Bamboo Heart is the inspiring story of Dr Amporn Wathanavongs. Orphaned at 6 years of age in a remote village in rural Thailand, Lek was thrust into a life-long struggle to find his place in the world. Alone and impoverished, he survived by begging for food in the markets of Surin until he was recruited to fight as a boy soldier in jungles of Cambodia. Despair and poverty lead him to attempt suicide until a stranger intervened with...
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Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways Cell Phones for Soldiers contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
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À 50 ans, Jo Lopez, caïd clermontois, gitan d'origine manouche, raconte sa vie, ses vies... avec cette volonté de transmettre un héritage. Entre ses petits délits de jeunesse, son premier « meurtre » à l'âge de 15 ans, ses déboires judiciaires, ses cicatrices, ses rencontres, ses passions, les poèmes qu'il rédige en prison et les valeurs qu'il défend, l'on découvre un homme bien plus singulier qu'il n'y paraît. C'est également une...
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Découvrez le témoignage intimiste d'une infirmière travaillant dans le monde des Ehpad, luttant contre les conditions de plus en plus difficiles.
Si la France compte 1,2 million de personnes âgées dépendantes aujourd'hui, elles devraient être 1,8 million en 2050. Cette augmentation inquiète les professionnels de la santé car le manque d'effectifs n'est pas près d'être pallié.
Éva Silvio, infirmière ayant exercé dans divers secteurs,...
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
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Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she was chosen to be the first (and only) black child in the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. At the time, Ruby was too young to understand how the simple act of attending school would change the lives of many to come. Her courageous act left the legacy that given a chance, anyone at any age can make a difference in the world.
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"An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress. Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 9
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"We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements-from the freedom of India from British rule to...
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"It's RBG like you've never seen her before! Using a mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an American trailblazer. The first book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on Ruth's lifelong mission to bring equality and justice to all. Sarah Green's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging backmatter instructs...
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