Social Themes - Violence
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After: A Survivor’s Story
$18.99 Add to cartMoving forward after a traumatic event isn’t easy, but finding community can help.
After living through The Horrible Day, a young girl struggles to get the fear off her skin. Why is she still here wh- Author: Adelman, Hallee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807530956
- Language: English
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Please Pay Attention
$17.99 Add to cartA girl with cerebral palsy navigates loss, grief, and the aftermath of trauma following a school shooting in a world that wasn’t built for her in this deeply affecting novel in verse from Jamie Sumner… [more below]
- Author: Sumner, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1665956070
- Language: English
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Every Story Ever Told
$16.99 Add to cartIn this life-affirming novel of trauma and recovery, a girl searches for a path forward after being forced to confront the reality of gun violence, for fans of Dusti Bowling and Jasmine Warga.
Stevie- Author: Polonsky, Ami
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0316570974
- Language: English
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Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence
$16.99 Read moreThis important follow-up to the bestselling, groundbreaking, and inspiring Something Happened in Our Town, is a much-needed story to help communities in the aftermath of gun violence.
Goddard Riversid- Series: Something Happened
- Author: Hazzard, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1433835215
- Language: English
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All American Boys
$15.99 Add to cartA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children s Literature.
In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award winning novel, two teens one bla… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432878603
- Language: English
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Bamboo People
$12.99 Add to cartTop Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
A refugee and child so
Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred Reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal
BookPage‘s “Top Ten Middle Grade Novels”- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1580893295
- Language: English
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Ghost of Spirit Bear
$9.99 Add to cartIn award-winning author Ben Mikaelsen’s riveting sequel to the acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller Touching Spirit Bear, readers will be captivated by what Booklist calls a “hugely satisfying resolutio
- Series: Spirit Bear #2
- Author: Mikaelsen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 006009009X
- Language: English
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All American Boys
$15.99 Add to cartA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children s Literature.
In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award winning novel, two teens one bla… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432878603
- Language: English
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The Composition
$8.95 Read moreWinner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awards and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title
Life is simple for Pedro — he goes to school, does his homework and, most import
- Author: Skarmeta, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: March 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0888995504
- Language: English
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Why?: A Timeless Story Told Without Words
$17.99 Add to cartA frog and a mouse fall into an argument over a flower in this wordless modern classic, perfect for starting conversations with children about peace, conflict, warfare, and the importance of de-escala… [more below]
- Author: Popov, Nikolai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1662650833
- Language: English
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Caged Warrior
$13.99 Add to cartA ferocious novel, Caged Warrior is like a great fight movie, a tour-de-force of relentless conflict, but one that is leavened with rich characters and meaningful and loving relationships.
McCutcheon… [more below]- Series: Caged Warrior
- Author: Sitomer, Alan Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1484722809
- Language: English
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La Rencilla de la Mantequilla (the Butter Battle Book Spanish Edition)
$16.99 Add to cartUna edici?n en rima y en espa?ol del cl?sico y oportuno libro de Dr. Seuss sobre el respeto a las diferencias!
La rencilla de la mantequilla, el cl?sico cuento con moraleja de Dr. Seuss, presenta a- Series: Classic Seuss
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1984831593
- Language: Spanish
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Drive-By
$12.99 Add to cart“Jimmy always told me there were only two kinds of gangbangers: Those who were dead and those who were going to die. Joining a gang doesn’t make sense to Jimmy…”
Jimmy is dead now–gunned down in fro
- Series: Harper Trophy Books (Paperback)
- Author: Ewing, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0064406490
- Language: English
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Smoky Night
$9.99 Read moreIn this Caldecott Medal-winning modern classic, a young boy and his mother witness the Los Angeles riots from the safety of shelter after being forced to leave their apartment.
Winner of the 1995 Cal- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0152018840
- Language: English
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Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan
$20.95 Add to cartCoretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)
Based on heartbreaking yet inspirational true events in the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Brothers in Hope is a story
- Series: Coretta Scott King Honor – Illustrator Honor Title
- Author: Williams, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1584302321
- Language: English
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The Shape of Thunder
$18.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing–and how friendship can be magical.
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend,
- Author: Warga, Jasmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0062956671
- Language: English
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If I Grow Up
$10.99 Add to cartIn a gripping novel with a plot pulled from the headlines, Todd Strasser turns his attention to gang life in the inner-city projects. DeShawn is a teenager growing up in the projects. Most of his frie… [more below]
- Author: Strasser, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416994432
- Language: English
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The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
$18.99 Add to cartThe Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss’s classic cautionary tale, introduces readers to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity br… [more below]
- Series: Classic Seuss
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394865804
- Language: English
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The Shape of Thunder
$9.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor-winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing–and how friendship can be magical.
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend,
- Author: Warga, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 006295668X
- Language: English
