Kids On Strike!
10 best books like Kids On Strike! (Susan Campbell Bartoletti): The Great Gilly Hopkins, The Green Glass Sea, Flush, The Thing About Luck, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition), Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Counting on Grace, Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0435124773 |
Watch out world!
The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful...
| Author | Ellen Klages |
| ISBN | 0670061344 |
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father, but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government...
| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
| ISBN | 0375821821 |
Take a romp in the swamp with this New York Times bestselling mystery adventure set in the Florida Keys from Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen!
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor--which has made taking a dip at the local beach like...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 1416918825 |
Summer knows that kouun means good luck" in Japanese, and this year her family has had none. Just when Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, an emergency whisks her parents away to Japan, right before harvest season leaving Summer and her little brother, Jaz, in the care of their elderly grandparents,...
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 1897299214 |
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country. While living in the nation's capital...
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range...
Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted
| Author | Kristina Jones |
| ISBN | 0007248075 |
The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.
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| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 0804167443 |
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty...
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 1426303327 |
With painstaking research, an unerring eye for just the right illustration, and her unique narrative style, award-winning author Ann Bausum makes the history of immigration in America come alive for young people. The story of America has always been shaped by people from all corners of the Earth who...
