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Author
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
2) Rampage
Author
Series
The singular menace volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"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...
4) Dress coded
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion."--
Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top when she had to keep her sweatshirt wrapped around her waist. Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Jessica was pulled over by the principal, missed a math quiz, and her teacher gave her an F. Molly starts a podcast protesting...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
6) No brainer
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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...
7) Kent State
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
Publisher
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1969, young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him and vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught. But when they arrive...
Author
Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan "Mni Wiconi"--Water is Life -- was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Now in seventh grade Gregory K. is frustrated by all the homework that leaves him no time for writing, which is what he loves to do--so he decides to go on a homework strike, and with his history teacher's encouragement he learns a valuable lesson in civics and standing up for what you believe in.