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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

10 best books like Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 (Larry Dane Brimner): Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, Betty Before X, Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, Harbor Me, Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound, Resistance, Grand Canyon, Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin, Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
AuthorShari Green
ISBN1772780170
Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a For Sale sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their little family, adding an unwelcome stepfather and pesky six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy s final...
Betty Before X
AuthorIlyasah Shabazz
A powerful middle-grade novel about the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s wife, written by their daughter.

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling that her mother...
Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community
AuthorRobin Stevenson
ISBN1459809939
For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters, June is a month of pride and celebration, and the high point of that month is the Pride Day Parade. Pride Day is a spectacular and colorful event. But there is a whole lot more to Pride than rainbow flags and amazing outfits. So what...
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN1419728385
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
Harbor Me
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399252525
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat—by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There,...
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN1596439734
From award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney comes the story of the music that defined a generation and a movement that changed the world.

Berry Gordy began Motown in 1959 with an $800 loan from his family. He converted the garage of a residential house into a studio and recruited teenagers...
Resistance
AuthorJennifer A. Nielsen
Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged...
Grand Canyon
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596439505
Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.

Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
AuthorJames L. Swanson
ISBN0545723337
An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability
AuthorShane Burcaw
ISBN1626727716
Shane Burcaw was born with a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, which hinders his muscles' growth. As a result, his body hasn't grown bigger and stronger as he's gotten older--it's gotten smaller and weaker instead. This hasn't stopped him from doing the things he enjoys (like eating pizza...
Sea Otter Heroes
AuthorPatricia Newman
ISBN1512426318
A Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book
A Green Earth Book Award Winner
This up-close look at a fascinating scientific discovery highlights the critical role predators such as sea otters play in keeping ecosystems healthy.
In Elkhorn Slough, an inlet on the California coast, seagrass...
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix
AuthorJacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN0983661596
Chef Roy Choi calls himself a “street cook.”
He wants outsiders, low-riders,
kids, teens, shufflers and skateboarders,
to have food cooked with care, with love,
with sohn maash.

"Sohn maash" is the flavors in our fingertips. It is the love and cooking talent that Korean...
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
AuthorDavid Bowles
Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool.

In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake:...
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