Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists
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Defying China: A Memoir
$20.99 Add to cartThe incredible true story of a teen who became an activist for the Tibetan independence movement, for readers of Red Scarf Girl and Farewell to Manzanar.
Tsultrim Dolma, born in a tiny village in the- Author: Dolma, Tsultrim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593615956
- Language: English
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You Can Change the World!: Everyday Teen Heroes Making a Difference Everywhere
$20.95 Add to cart**Joint Gold Winner of the Moonbeam Multicultural Non-Fiction Award 2019**
This inspirational book tells the stories of more than 50 of today’s teenagers who’ve dared to change the world they live in.- Author: Rooke, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1785925024
- Language: English
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Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival
$17.99 Add to cart★ School Library Journal, starred review
“This is what justice looks like. We are told we live in an age of few if any heroes, but Raymond Santana is a real genuine hero. His story is one of unb- Author: Santana, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1662681402
- Language: English
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Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival
$24.99 Add to cart★ School Library Journal, starred review
“This is what justice looks like. We are told we live in an age of few if any heroes, but Raymond Santana is a real genuine hero. His story is one of unb- Author: Santana, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1662680392
- Language: English
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C?mo Ser Un (Joven) Antirracista / How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
$14.95 Add to cartEl bestseller n?mero uno del New York Times ahora en espa?ol y adaptado para j?venes por Nic Stone.
PODEMOS DEJAR QUE EL RACISMO SE MULTIPLIQUE, O PODEMOS MULTIPLICAR NUESTRAS ACCIONES ANTIRRACISTAS.- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890983053
- Language: Spanish
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Arm in Arm: The Grimk? Sisters’ Fight for Abolition and Women’s Rights
$19.99 Add to cartSisters Sarah and Angelina Grimk? grew up in wealth and privilege in early nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. Following the standards of the time, they should have known nothing but prospe
- Author: Carpenter, Angelica Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765627433
- Language: English
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La Vida Es Bonita Incluso Ahora. Una Historia Real de Superaci?n Y Lucha / Life Is Beautiful Even Now: A True Story of Triumph and Struggle
$18.95 Add to cartLa historia real de Bel?n Dom?nguez: una novela basada en su vida en la que, a pesar de los malos momentos, siempre hay un rayo de luz para seguir adelante.
Bel?n es una chica normal con una vida norm- Author: DomÃnguez, Belén
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 8419514152
- Language: Spanish
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Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (a Love Story)
$21.99 Add to cartA propulsive biography about groundbreaking political activist Emma Goldman from National Book Award Finalist and “nonfiction maestro” (Horn Book) Deborah Heiligman.
Emma Goldman made trouble her whol- Author: Heiligman, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1250823072
- Language: English
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King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)
$19.99 Add to cartHailed as “the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King’s life in a generation” by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standar
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0374393109
- Language: English
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The Challenges We Faced, The Women We Became
$16.99 Add to cartThe Challenges We Faced, The Women We Became shares firsthand experiences in women’s lives worldwide. It is a compilation of interviews addressing the overarching question: What is a challenging exper
- Author: Barcroft, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1957184779
- Language: English
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From Here
$12.99 Add to cartIn her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee. Now in paperback.
W- Author: Mufleh, Luma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0593354478
- Language: English
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This Is What I Know about Art
$8.99 Add to cart“Drew’s experience teaches us to embrace what we are afraid of and be true to ourselves. She uses her passion to change the art world and invites us to join her.”–Janelle Monç–‡, award-winning singer… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Drew, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0593095189
- Language: English
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Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
$28.99 Add to cartThe inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson–one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century–adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson b
- Author: Duberman, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976498
- Language: English
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Bernice Sandler and the Fight for Title IX
$16.99 Read moreIn 1969 Bernice Sandler was finishing her doctorate in Education at the University of Maryland, teaching part-time at the university, and trying to secure a full-time position. Despite her exce… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary Women in Psychology
- Author: Barton, Jen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1433839466
- Language: English
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Food-Related Stories
$8.99 Read more“Gaby Melian tells so many stories through her relationship with food–about love, about loss, about hard work, and about finding her passion. The pages are dripping with delicious smells and tastes, … [more below]
- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Melian, Gaby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0593223497
- Language: English
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The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World
$9.99 Read moreDo you have a cause you’re passionate about? Take a few tips from the suffragists, who led one of the largest and longest movements in American history.
The women’s suffrage movement was decades in t- Author: Robb, Lucinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1536228176
- Language: English
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Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People
$19.95 Read moreThe first biography of Jane Jacobs for young people, the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker who transformed the way we inhabit and develop our cities.
Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred y- Author: Pitts, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1644212994
- Language: English
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One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet
$24.95 Read more★ “The activists’ stories are extraordinary…It’s a powerful answer to Rao’s framing questions: ‘Who is an environmental defender? What does she or he look like? Maybe like you. Maybe like me.’
- Author: Rao, Anuradha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1459818865
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography
$24.99 Add to cartInspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Ri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690773
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life
$15.99 Add to cart2023 IPNE Award Finalist, Young Adult
2022 Foreword INDIES Winner, Honorable Mention, Juvenile Nonfiction
Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an Afri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690765
- Language: English
