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When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 13-year-old Joe Coutts sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or...
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
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Anti-Racist Non-fiction: YA
High School Battle of the Books - 2022-23
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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
4) The Kurds
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Explores the history of the Kurdish ethnic group and outlines the genocidal acts that have been carried out against this people. Examines how the Kurds have been impacted by these events and outlines various controversies concerning how these people are treated and who has mistreated them.
6) Killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers
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Explores the murders of members of the Osage Indian Tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s, which occurred after the tribe became rich due to the oil found on their land. Describes how the FBI, at the time a very new organization, hurt the case, and what investigators did to try and find the killers. This version has been adapted for young readers.
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
8) Burma
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Explores the history of genocide and persecution of the Rohingya people in Burma and discusses the controversies during it. Features testimonials from individuals who experienced these events firsthand.
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Rape Culture and Sexual Violence covers the history of societies' views on rape, significant incidents from recent years, and the ways in which women are fighting against rape culture today. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her; she's just another lost Black girl. Jay feels guilty and he thinks, "If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be home spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior...
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"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
12) Kosovo
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This book presents historical background on the 1990 persecution of Albanians by Serbs, multinational perspectives on issues and controversies on the conflict in the 1990s by Serbia and Albania, and first-person narratives from people affected by the Kosovo conflict.
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A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime
...14) Uganda
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This book presents historical background on Uganda, multinational perspectives on the expulsion of Uganda's Asian population, and personal narratives of people suffering persecution.
15) South Africa
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Contains essays looking at the apartheid in South Africa.
16) Liberia
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Explores the history of the genocide in Liberia, and discusses controversies surrounding it. Features testimonials from individuals who experienced these events firsthand, a glossary, resources, and organizations to contact.
17) Up North
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Rob Maclean and his mom have moved to a small community in northern Ontario in order to be closer to Rob's imprisoned brother, Adam. One night after a rowdy party, Rob and some friends end up in a van speeding through a First Nations reserve. The driver of the van has a deep hatred for Indigenous people, and he lobs rotten fruit at a group of young men gathered in front of a community center. The young men chase them down, and Rob's friend Alan is...
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Awesome YA Books by Black Authors
Built-In Besties or Baddies: Siblings in YA Books
YA Books for Juneteenth
Awesome YA Books by Black Authors
Built-In Besties or Baddies: Siblings in YA Books
YA Books for Juneteenth
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Although distraught, Happi is also unsettled by the way people have idealized the memory of her sister who was killed after attending a social justice rally -- why do people have to be perfect in order to be missed? As a way to honor the memory, however, Happi and her other sister Genny go on a roadtrip using the original "Green Book" -- but the trip reveals secrets neither sister knew about the dead Kezi.
20) Rwanda
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Presents a collection of essays about the genocide and crimes against humanity in Rwanda that started with their civil war in 1990, including the history of the country, the genocide that took place, and personal narratives of the survivors.