Social Activists
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What Is the Story of Smokey Bear?
$7.99 Add to cartWho HQ brings you the stories behind the most well-known characters of our time.
In this addition to the What Is the Story Of? series, young readers will get to know American icon Smokey Bear’s histo- Series: What Is the Story Of?
- Author: Kort?, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593385705
- Language: English
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-cen
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1635425239
- Language: English
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Joni Eareckson Tada: The Girl Who Learned to Follow God in a Wheelchair
$14.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully illustrated hardback, Kristyn Getty recounts Joni Eareckson Tada’s lively childhood, life-changing accident and challenging adjustment to a very different way of life, and shares h
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Getty, Kristyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1802540679
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA story of resilience, courage, and the power of dreams…
From a young age, Tristian’s life was marked by chaos and uncertainty. Witnessing his mother being taken away on a stretcher was a pivotal mom
- Author: Smith, Tristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling
$10.99 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling possible.
Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the
- Author: Moser, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1554988934
- Language: English
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Marcus Rashford
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Marcus Rashford, the world-famous soccer player and campaigner against childhood hunger.
When- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #87
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0711270996
- Language: English
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Little by Little: You Can Change the World
$18.95 Add to cartMichael might be young, but he’s got a big heart and a strong sense of right and wrong. He knows it’s right to help people when they need it–but what can he do when so many people need help?
When M
- Author: Ballantyne, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1774920980
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way
$19.99 Read moreBlack girls are shaping the future.
Young Black leaders have always been at the forefront of the fight for justice, freedom, and equity. And Black girls today are stepping up and leading in bold, cre
- Series: Unbossed
- Author: Adams, Khristi Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1506479235
- Language: English
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Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking
$30.00 Add to cartThe gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire.
Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of- Author: Mickelwait, Laila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593542010
- Language: English
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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
$18.00 Add to cartA wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).
On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed t- Series: McNally Editions
- Author: Shaplen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1946022918
- Language: English
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Against the American Grain: A Borderlands History of Resistance
$24.95 Read moreA century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought leaders who first shaped American culture. Since then,
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 082636697X
- Language: English
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A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story
$18.99 Add to cartThe remarkable life of Myrlie Evers-Williams is honored and celebrated in this stunningly illustrated picture book biography of a civil rights hero–the very first of its kind.
Myrlie Evers-Williams’- Author: Salomon, Nadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0593525914
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartA story of resilience, courage, and the power of dreams…
From a young age, Tristian’s life was marked by chaos and uncertainty. Witnessing his mother being taken away on a stretcher was a pivotal mom
- Author: Smith, Tristian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Seeker of Truth: Kailash Satyarthi’s Fight to End Child Labor
$18.99 Read moreLittle by little, drop by drop Kailash Satyarthi devoted his life to battling international child labor and exploitation. In 2014 his work earned him a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala Yousafzai.
“M- Author: Venkat, Srividhya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1499815697
- Language: English
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Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing Machine
$28.00 Add to cartJoe Ingle’s Too Close to the Flame is a heartbreakingly beautiful account of over four decades serving as a spiritual counselor, guide, and friend to the men and women on Death Row.
“I had been worki- Author: Ingle, Joseph B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1637632916
- Language: English
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Accidental Activist
$19.95 Add to cartMary Allen Jolley served as legislative assistant to Congressman Carl Elliott, D-AL, helping draft the National Defense Education Act of 1958. She later
accepted an appointment by President Kennedy to
- Author: Jolley, Mary Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1604893818
- Language: English
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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
$20.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times notable book of 2023 Vulture‘s #1 book of 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller
One of Slate‘s ten best boo- Author: Klein, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 125033814X
- Language: English
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She Persisted: Dolores Huerta
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds–including community act… [more below]
- Series: She Persisted
- Author: Brown, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593623568
- Language: English
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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
$18.00 Add to cart“Gaza has always been rebellious… stubborn, addictive. I’m her daughter, and I look like her.”
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face
- Author: Alghoul, Asmaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660798
- Language: English
