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1) Dress coded
Author
Description
"Molly Frost is FED UP... Because Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top when she had to keep her sweatshirt wrapped around her waist. Because Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Because when Jessica was pulled over by the principal and missed a math quiz, her teacher gave her an F. Because it's impossible to find shorts that are longer than her fingertips. Because girls' bodies are not...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chloe and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.
3) Night moves
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 voume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"In Knit a Hat, Take a Knee, young readers are taken through their #resistance ABCs. Through lyrically sparse writing, Rob Sanders introduces abstract concepts like "fighting for what you believe in" and turns them into something actionable"--
7) Night moves
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Author
Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
74 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Description
"From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by ... artivist De Nichols"--
9) The protest
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages ; 24 cm.
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Description
"Lily and her friends organize a protest in order to save their neighborhood public garden from being demolished"--
10) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
271 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"After her home burns down, Julianna moves to a new town to start over but learns that the boy who started the fire goes to her new school"--
Author
Publisher
Pavilion Children's
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Protest has changed the planet – from Roman times to today, ordinary people have stood up for what they believe in and made the world a better place. Children are more likely now than ever before to make a peaceful stand against what they believe is wrong in the world. The time is right for a book that sets out the history of protest and how it has changed our society. Illustrated by award-winner Emily Haworth-Booth, and written by Emily and her...
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
When Rocket finds out her town's library is closing, she rallies support from her peers, and together they lead a peaceful protest that spreads awareness and raises enough money to save their beloved library.
13) The green girls
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 23 cm
Description
"Emma, Lily, and Fadila want to save the planet . . . and no one around them seems to care. Frustrated, they call themselves the Green Girls, take to social media, and launch a series of bold protests"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
"Young Lubaya is happiest when she's drawing, often behind the sofa while her family watches TV. There, she creates pictures on the backs of her parents' old protest posters. But when upsetting news shouts into their living room, her parents need the posters again. The next day her family takes part in a march, and there, on one side of the posters being held high, are Lubaya's drawings of kids holding hands and of the sun shining over the globe--rousing...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect forfans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"--
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it’s shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
19) Little Gandhi
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful documentary titled for the nickname given to Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar, named so for his initiative of facing down violent government security forces with flowers and bottles of water. Matar was a key organizer of peaceful protests in his hometown of Daraya against one of the most vicious regimes in the 21st century. His brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn’t want big; she just wants home. The trouble is, she doesn’t know where that is…until the Hong Kong protest movement unfolds, and she learns the city she’s come to love is in danger of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old...
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