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March Book Three by John Lewis
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."In March, Book...
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Fighting For Yes! by Maryann Cocca-Lefler
When Judy Heumann was a little girl, life in a wheelchair meant not being able to do many things. When she was five-years-old her mother attempted to sign her up for kindergarten but the principal...
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Black Birds In the Sky by Brandy Colbert
In Black Birds In The Sky, Brandy Colbert describes the events leading up to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the aftermath of that tragedy on the Black community and America as a country.The story...
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Fashionopolis. The Secrets Behind The Clothes We Wear by Dana Thomas
Shopping for clothing is a favourite activity the world over. So it's not surprising it is a three trillion dollar industry which produces about one hundred billion items every year. But as you walk...
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Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
Minni lives in Mumbai, in a part of the city that is very poor, where there is often not enough water. Her family doesn't have running water in their home, instead they rely on an outside tap that they...
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I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
I Must Betray You is a chilling portrayal of life in communist Romania under the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceausescu just as the Soviet Union is collapsing.One gray October day in 1989,...
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Muinji'j Asks Why by Muinji'j and Shanika MacEachern
One day Muinji'j comes home from school upset. She tells her grandparents that they have been talking about the residential schools and what happened to the children in these schools. However, when she...
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Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Twelve-year-old Homer, his sister Ada and their Mama had runaway from Southerland Plantation. Their plan was to go north to freedom but Mama had gone back to get Anna, a slave Homer had promised to...
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Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code by Joseph Bruchac
In October, 1929, eight-year-old Betoli, a member of the Navajo nation, was forced to leave his family , his home, and his goats and sheep to attend boarding school. The school was run by missionaries...
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Sky Wolf's Call: The gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and...
Canada shares the land with around six hundred First Nations while within the United States, there are five hundred seventy-three tribes. Their collective Indigenous knowledge shares many similar ideas...
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Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Twelve-year-old Nyl Chorny and his father Tato have just returned from inspecting their wheat field when they see hundreds of uniformed young people, part of the Young Communist League, marching into...
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Maya's Song by Renee Watson
Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St. Louis on April 4, 1928. Her family was made up of her father Bailey, he mother Vivian and her older brother Bailey Jr. who called her Maya. Maya's father spoke...
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Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud
This picture book is about Wakaja haja piiwiga whose name means "Beautiful Thunder Woman". Today we know her as Ria Thundercloud. Ria is from the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin and Sandia Pueblo in New...
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Stitched UP by Steve Cole
Hanh lived in a village with her parents, sisters and grandma, dreaming of someday finding a good job in fashion. That day seemed to arrive when "the Man" and "the Woman" came to their village. Smartly...
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Secret Schools. True Stories of the Determination to Learn by Heather Camlot
In Secret Schools, the amazing determination to learn is highlight through the stories of schools held in secret. The book is divided into five sections. In Section 1 Cultural Connections: Protecting...
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Signs Of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Renee Hartman with Joshua M...
In Signs of Survival, Renee and Herta relate their harrowing experience of living through the Holocaust and their lives afterwards. Their story is told in alternating first person narration.Renee was...
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One Turtle's Last Straw by Eliza Boxer
This nonfiction picture book is about a real event that occurred while a group of scientists were working on the ocean. In 2015, Christine Figgener was gathering data for her Ph.D. research off the...
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The Whale Who Swam Through Time by Alex Boersma and Nick Pyenson
In The Whale Who Swam Through Time, the life cycle of the bowhead whale, the longest living mammal is explored.The bowhead whale can live a long time, so this story begins two hundred years earlier,...
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The Elephant Girl by James Patterson and Ellen Banda-Aaku
Twelve-year-old Jama Anyango lives with her mother in their manyatta that contains only four enkajijik which her mother built by hand. Surrounding the four huts is a boma, a thick fence of vines to...
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A Book, Too, Can Be A Star by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams
How author Madeleine L'Engle came to write her most famous book, A Wrinkle In Time is told is this picture book written by her granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis.The story begins with the...
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