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Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Older Children

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

The Breadwinner

Recommended by Malala Yousafzai, The Breadwinner is the first book in Debor...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
The Birchbark House

This is one of those childrens books with a magical, tender quality that se...More
Sugar

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

Esperanza is a young, rich girl living a fairy-tale life in the 1930s with ...More
Seeing Red

Red Porter knows the difference between right and wrong, black and white. B...More
Counting on Grace

"Counting on Grace" by Elizabeth Winthrop tells the story of a young girl n...More
The Same Stuff as Stars

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

"Heart and Soul" by Kadir Nelson is a beautifully illustrated picture book ...More
Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl,...More
Birmingham, 1963

A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing th...More
Kids on Strike!

"Kids on Strike!" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti tells the compelling story o...More
Getting Away with Murder

"Getting Away with Murder" by Chris Crowe tells the true story of the 1960 ...More
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

"We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March" by Cynthia Levinson...More
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote

With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by An...More
Sweetgrass Basket

In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreak...More
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin dedicated his life to helping othersfighting injustices and d...More
The Color of My Words

In "The Color of My Words" by Lynn Joseph, readers are introduced to Ana Ro...More
Brotherhood

"Brotherhood" by Anne Westrick follows the journey of a young boy named Kla...More
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope

"Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope" by Beverley Naidoo feat...More
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

This book is the winner of numerous awardsThere are 160 pages in this book....More
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children, and Don't You Grow Weary

This book is the winner of numerous awardsThis book is part of a book serie...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
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

"Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott" by Russell Freed...More
A Long Walk to Water

"A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park is a dual narrative that tells the...More
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

"The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom" by Margarita Eng...More
Parvana's Journey

The second book in the bestselling Breadwinner series, set in war-torn Afgh...More
True Believer

Returning to the characters and language that attracted widespread critical...More
Revolution (the Sixties Trilogy #2): Volume 2

"Revolution," the second book in Deborah Wiles' Sixties Trilogy, is set aga...More
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: 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
Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family

One day they will send for her, but how long must Van Ho wait for her famil...More
The Shepherd's Granddaughter

Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Child...More
Ninth Ward

Abandoned by her peers because of her ability to see spirits, Lanesha longs...More
Rickshaw Girl

"Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins follows the story of a young girl named N...More
The Crazy Man

It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern S...More
The Other Side of Truth

Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Cla...More
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
Elijah of Buxton

"Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis tells the story of an eleven-...More
The Heaven Shop

Binti's father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in M...More
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

"Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose tells the inspiri...More
Weedflower

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

"A Group of One" by Rachna Gilmore follows the journey of a young girl name...More
Mud City

The third book in the internationally bestselling Breadwinner series. Parva...More