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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Combining facts, charts, photographs, and stories, describes how readers can enact change in the world around them and find solutions for such global problems as climate change, poverty, gender inequality, and homelessness.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A little book about big change. We all want the same things. We want to live a life of purpose and meaning. We want to leave a legacy for our children and grandchildren. We want to leave the world a better place. And yet we spend so much time wringing our hands over what's wrong and not nearly enough time fixing those things within our control. John Kasich has walked the corridors of power both in politics, as a former leader of Congress, governor...
4) Wide awake
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Paisley looks at specific ways you can create social change through the tap of a screen. She provides examples of successful hashtag campaigns, viral videos and new socially conscious apps, as well as practical advice for using your smartphone as a tool for social justice.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
8) Act
Author
Series
Click volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds! But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard--even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student council election! With intense campaign competition and emotions running...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. She begins investigating disturbing claims made against her father. Could her dad really be at the helm of a firm that distorts the truth and covers up wrongdoing by hugely profitable corporations that have allowed innocent victims to die? Is it possible that her father is the bad guy? Alix has to make a choice, and time is running out, but can she truly risk everything and blow the whistle on the man...
10) Antiracist Baby
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text present nine steps Antiracist Baby can take to improve equity, such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences.
11) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
12) Ballyhoo Bay
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mira Bella mobilizes her art students, from grandmothers to children, crabs to seagulls, to stop a dastardly plan for turning the beach at Ballyhoo Bay into an exclusive resort, and offers an alternative--leave the beach as it is.
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
16) Joe Bell
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kid President offers advice on how to make life and the world more awesome, including more high fives, solving conflicts using ice cream, and remembering that things don't have to be the way they are.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred...
19) Not so small
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrates the many ways people can join together to become something bigger--an unstoppable force. Each and every one of us can use our voices to make a difference"--
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen. Heartbroken and fed up, Watts decided to do something about it. [This book] is a riveting account of how one mother's cry for change grew into a national movement, Moms Demand Action, a powerful grassroots network with millions of supporters and local chapters in all fifty states. Watts has been called...
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