Against Discrimination
Top 10 Against Discrimination
: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Hundred Dresses, Ashes, Half-Breed, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, The Blood Lie, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, Stormwitch
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It...
| Author | Eleanor Estes |
| ISBN | 0152052607 |
Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0670011576 |
Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramm's favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comfort while the world around her changes dramatically: The streets become filled with soldiers, Gaby's sister's boyfriend raises his arm...
| Author | Maria Campbell |
| ISBN | 0887801161 |
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.
Maria was a strong and sensitive child who lived in a community robbed of its pride and dignity by the...
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
| Author | Caroline Criado-Pérez |
| ISBN | 1419729071 |
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar,...
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
| Author | Donald B. Kraybill |
| ISBN | 0787997617 |
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared...
| Author | Shirley Reva Vernick |
| ISBN | 1933693843 |
September 22, 1928, Massena, New York. Jack Pool's sixteenth birthday. He's been restless lately, especially during this season of more-times-at-the-synagogue than you can shake a stick at. If it wasn't Rosh Hashanah, then it was Yom Kippur, and if it wasn't Yom Kippur, it was the Sabbath. But temple's...
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
| Author | Black Elk |
| ISBN | 0803283857 |
This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
| Author | Art Spiegelman |
| ISBN | 0679729771 |
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself....
| Author | Susan Vaught |
| ISBN | 1582349525 |
It is 1969, and Ruba has just moved to Mississippi from Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. This world is very different from her old life, where she spent days beachcombing with Ba, her maternal grandmother, and learning the lore of magic and history that she holds close. But magic isn't welcome...
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0440993717 |
The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system...
| Author | Mary Ann Rodman |
| ISBN | 0374386617 |
Mississippi and integration in the 1960s
The year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxley's FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote. Alice finds herself thrust into the midst of the racial turmoil that dominates...
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 1890771910 |
My son was reading this as an assignment in his 5th grade class. The description caught my attention since I know very little about Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps, and I wanted to be more informed so I could discuss the book with my son. We both enjoyed the book and had some great discussions...
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 0687002826 |
Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590473328 |
They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends...
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
| Author | Miep Gies |
| ISBN | 0671662341 |
If a person has heard Miep Gies speak, this book is extactly like her speech. She may have a co-author, but her voice comes though loud and clear.
Like the documentry about Anne Frank, this book does much in dispelling some of the myths that surrond the Frank family and thier assoicates. In many...
| Author | Kirby Larson |
| ISBN | 0545224187 |
Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings us the first new Dear America diary in years, taking readers through the attack on Pearl Harbor, the start of World War II, and the Japanese incarceration.
With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II home front, Kirby Larson brings her incredible...
| Author | Kirby Larson |
| ISBN | 0545416353 |
New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese-American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII.
Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl...
| Author | Katherine Schlick Noe |
| ISBN | 0547558139 |
Can a white girl feel at home on an Indian reservation?
Based on the author’s childhood experience in the early 1960s, this novel centers on Kitty, whose father is a government forester at Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon. Kitty is one of only two white kids in her class, and the Indian kids...
| Author | Joanne Oppenheim |
| ISBN | 0439569923 |
A chronicle of the incredible correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II.
In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American...
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
| Author | Antjie Krog |
| ISBN | 0812931297 |
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating...
| Author | Rebecca Makkai |
| ISBN | 0670022810 |
Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate...
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
| Author | Kristin Levine |
| ISBN | 0399250905 |
The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper -talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when...
| Author | Harper Fox |
| ISBN | 1619214806 |
His deadliest enemy will become his heart’s desire.
Caius doesn’t feel like much of a Christian. He loves his life of learning as a monk in the far-flung stronghold of Fara, but the hot warrior blood of his chieftain father flows in his veins. Heat soothed only in the arms of his sweet-natured...
Privilege, Power, and Difference
| Author | Allan G. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0072874899 |
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences...
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant,...
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
| Author | Andrea Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0896087433 |
A recognized Native American scholar and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the largest grassroots, multiracial feminist organization in the country, Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is an emerging leader in progressive political circles. In Conquest, Smith places Native American...
