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Jane Addams Children's Book Award

This book was recognised in the Older Children category by the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.

Kids on Strike!

Birchbark House

This is one of those children's books with a magical, tender quality that s...More

True Believer

Returning to the characters and language that attracted widespread critical...More

Freedom Walkers

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

In 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connec...More

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

The Surrender Tree/El Arbol de La Rendicion: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom/Poemas de La Lucha de Cuba Por Su Libertad

A Group of One

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children, and Don't You Grow Weary

With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote

Sugar

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks...More

Esperanza Rising

Brotherhood

Weedflower

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before...More

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Ain't Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry

Who was the real John Hendry? The story of this legendary Afican-American f...More

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitati...More

Out of Bounds

'Stunning and emotionally involving collection.' The Sunday Times 'Short s...More

Same Stuff as Stars

Angel's dad is in jail and her mum's abandoned her and her little brother a...More

Rickshaw Girl

Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Banglades...More

The Color of My Words

Almost Astronauts: The Story Of The Merc

Almost Astronauts When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had ...More

We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin dedicated his life to helping others--fighting injustices and...More

Sylvia & Aki

Sylvia and Aki At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader...More

Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl,...More

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law that changed the future of Girls in USA

Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls pla...More

Girl from the Tar Paper School, The:Barbara Rose Johns and the Ad: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

The Girl from the Tar Paper School mixes biography, social history and arch...More

Sweetgrass Basket

Birmingham, 1963

A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing th...More

Breadwinner Graphic Novel

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film te...More

Revolution (the Sixties Trilogy #2)