Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics
Candlewick Press,U.S. Kids Fight Climate Change: Act now to be a
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£7.99
Candlewick Press Better Than We Found It Conversations to Help
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£17.99
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing
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£9.49
Candlewick Press (MA) And Yet You Shine The Kohinoor Diamond
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£16.14
Candlewick Press,U.S. Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who
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£17.09
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Patron Thief of Bread
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£10.44
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Lucky Ones
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£8.54
Candlewick Press (MA) Peace on Earth
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£13.09
Lerner Publishing Group Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of
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£18.99
Amazon Publishing What If Everybody Thought That?
Book SynopsisWhat if everybody were more thoughtful before they judged someone? If you see someone in a wheelchair, you might think he or she couldn’t compete in a race. But…you might be wrong. What if you see a child with no hair? Do you think she is embarrassed all the time? How about a kid who has a really hard time reading? Do you think that means he’s not smart? You might think so. But…you might be wrong. With clear prose and lighthearted artwork, this companion book to the bestseller What If Everybody Did That? explores the preconceived notions we have about the world and encourages kids to be more thoughtful.
£11.69
Capstone Press Immigrants from Somalia and Other African
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from India and Southeast Asia
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from Mexico and Central America
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from Somalia and Other African
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from India and Southeast Asia
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from Mexico and Central America
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£999.99
Capstone Press Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East
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£999.99
Capstone Press Colin Kaepernick
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£999.99
Capstone Press Cesar Chavez: Get to Know the Leader Who Won
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£999.99
Capstone Press John Lewis: Get to Know the Statesman Who Marched
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£999.99
Capstone Press Marley Dias
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£999.99
Capstone Press Cesar Chavez: Get to Know the Leader Who Won
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£999.99
Capstone Press John Lewis: Get to Know the Statesman Who Marched
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£999.99
Capstone Press Ruby Bridges: Get to Know the Girl Who Took a
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£999.99
Capstone Press Marley Dias (Influential People)
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£999.99
Capstone Press Irena Sendler: Get to Know the World War II
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£999.99
Capstone Press Dolores Huerta: Get to Know the Voice of Migrant
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£999.99
Capstone Press Wangari Maathai: Get to Know the Woman Who
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£999.99
Capstone Press An Ellis Island Time Capsule: Artifacts of the
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£999.99
Scholastic Inc. Blizzards Learn About Wild Weather
Book SynopsisA perfect book to teach kids what blizzards are, and how to prepare for them!A blizzard is a storm with high winds that blow snow around. It lasts for more than three hours. Experts say climate change is making these storms even fiercer. Discover why blizzards happen, how they are measured, and how we can prepare for them in Blizzards, a perfect first introduction to the topic for young readers.ABOUT THIS SERIES:In the era of climate change, wild weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and blizzards are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Now more than ever, education around these topics is essential. Using age-appropriate language and easy-to-understand science, the books in this series will offer a first exploration of different wild weather events that can be unleashed on Earth: why they happen, how they are measured, and how we can prepare for them. Illustrated with arresting full-color photography and sprinkled with fascinating facts, these books will follow pioneering climate change curricula for early elementary grades across the United States.
£31.23
Scholastic Inc. Blizzards Learn About Wild Weather
Book SynopsisA perfect book to teach kids what blizzards are, and how to prepare for them!A blizzard is a storm with high winds that blow snow around. It lasts for more than three hours. Experts say climate change is making these storms even fiercer. Discover why blizzards happen, how they are measured, and how we can prepare for them in Blizzards, a perfect first introduction to the topic for young readers.ABOUT THIS SERIES:In the era of climate change, wild weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and blizzards are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Now more than ever, education around these topics is essential. Using age-appropriate language and easy-to-understand science, the books in this series will offer a first exploration of different wild weather events that can be unleashed on Earth: why they happen, how they are measured, and how we can prepare for them. Illustrated with arresting full-color photography and sprinkled with fascinating facts, these books will follow pioneering climate change curricula for early elementary grades across the United States.
£8.51
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All
Book SynopsisIn her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.Trade ReviewA sobering primer on the myriad ways African American resilience and triumph over enslavement, Jim Crow and intolerance have been relentlessly defied by the very institutions entrusted to uphold our democracy. * Washington Post *[White Rage] is an extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism bequeathed by white anger and resentment, and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy. -- Editor's Choice * New York Times Book Review *White Rage is a riveting and disturbing history that begins with Reconstruction and lays bare the efforts of whites in the South and North alike to prevent emancipated black people from achieving economic independence, civil and political rights, personal safety, and economic opportunity. * The Nation *An unflinching look at America's long history of structural and institutionalized racism, White Rage is a timely and necessary examination of white anger and aggression towards black America . . . A compelling look at American history, White Rage has never seemed more relevant than it does today. * Bustle, “17 Books On Race Every White Person Needs To Read” *
£16.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Birdie's Billions
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£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Secrets We Tell the Sea
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£15.29
Kids Can Press Enormous Potato
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£9.99
Pinata Books Un Tren Llamado Esperanza / A Train Called Hope
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£18.00
Peachtree Publishers,U.S. Sister Spider Knows All
Book SynopsisWhen Roxanne discovers her absent mother?s teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and possibilities for a different future.For twelve-year-old Rox, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market. But outside this fragile weekend world, she?s lost. A so-so student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. And who is she anyway? Her teenage mother left when she was only three months old and her father?s identity is a mystery. And no one, least of all Mimi, will talk about what happened.But then her cousin John Martin brings home a girlfriend from college who has very different ideas about the way life works. And when Rox discovers her mother?s teenage diary, she begins discovering some answers to her past and her future.With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of life?s certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girl?s struggles to find her way in the world.
£8.50
Peachtree Publishers,U.S. First Grade Stinks!
Book SynopsisFirst-grader Haley wishes she were back having fun in kindergarten with her old teacher, until she finds out that first-grade is special too.
£8.54
Pelican Publishing Co Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave: 1841-1853
Book SynopsisThe best firsthand account of the slavery experience, this autobiographical story, originally published in 1853, has been rewritten to make it accessible to younger readers. Northup, a family man and hack driver in upstate New York, was kidnapped, whisked away from his home, and sold into slavery.
£15.29
Creative Company,US Yusra Swims
Book SynopsisThe true story of Yusra Mardini, as portrayed in the Netflix movie ?The Swimmers?. Yusra Mardini loves to swim. As a girl in Damascus, she dreams about swimming for her country in the Olympics. But then war intervenes. Julie Abery?s spare, rhyming verse relates the story of Yusra?s journey from her beloved home in Syria to a sinking boat on the Aegean to Germany, where Yusra finally swims again and realizes her dream. "Spare, rhythmic verse gives the narrative a gripping and dramatic feel, while Deng?s illustrations convey the struggles of war and displacement." ? Kirkus Reviews "A talented swimmer with Olympic dreams, Yusra Mardini trains daily, despite unrest in her native Syria. When the conflict intensifies, her father arranges for her to evacuate to Europe. She flees by bus, and then by sea, where her swimming skills are put to good use towing a sinking rowboat to shore. When she finally arrives in Berlin, she begins training again and eventually participates in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Abery''s spare, rhyming text recounts Mardini''s real-life story, touching on the traumas (''Treading water, / Gripping rope. / Yusra swims, / Keeping hope.'') and triumphs (''Refugee / Olympic team. / Yusra swims. / Achieves her dream.'') of her young life. Deng''s digitally enhanced acrylic and colored-pencil illustrations favor blues, greens, and browns and depict both the serenity of the pool and the severe realities of civil war and refugee life. An excellent addition to the growing number of picture books about refugees, this is appended with a note about Mardini, who currently serves as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador." ? Booklist
£15.90
Free Spirit Publishing Inc.,U.S. I'm Like You, You're Like Me
Book Synopsisa Ita s fun to find ways Ia m like you and youa re like me. Ita s fun to find ways wea re different.a ? In this colorful, inviting book, kids from preschool to lower elementary learn about diversity in terms they can understand: hair thata s straight or curly, families with many people or few, bodies that are big or small. With its wide-ranging examples and fun, highly detailed art, Ia m Like You, Youa re Like Me helps kids appreciate the ways they are alike and affirm their individual differences. A two-page adult section in the back provides tips and activities for parents and caregivers to reinforce the themes and lessons of the book.Trade ReviewSensitively written [and] beautifully illustrated . . . a childhood multicultural classic. "Midwest Book Review""
£15.19
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Flying the Dragon
£14.39
Astra Publishing House Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped
Book SynopsisWhen Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of education in the South changed for the better. It was the early 1900s, a time of discrimination, racial segregation, and inadequate education for African Americans. Rosenwald created a special fund that in just twenty years built more than 5,300 schools attended by 600,000 black students. In this inspiring story, noted nonfiction writer Norman H. Finkelstein spotlights one man's legacy and the power of community action. Includes quotations, a detailed bibliography, and index.Trade Review"Finkelstein does a solid job of introducing both a person and a history most readers will know nothing about. The text clearly explains how the schools were built, the enthusiasm for them, their successes, and how the legacy of the Rosenwald schools lives on. The archival photographs are particularly well chosen and often moving. . ."—Booklist "This straightforward narrative is substantially supported with many photographs of the period, especially of the schools and the students. Source notes, a bibliography, a list of websites, an index and picture credits add to its authenticity. Clean layout and design augment a quality introduction to an important chapter in the history of American education." —Kirkus Reviews"This highly accessible, beautifully illustrated book tells how a Jewish tycoon helped provide educational opportunities for countless African Americans. . . This is a fascinating look at how one man's vision changed the lives of more than 600,000 people through increased educational opportunities. The book is superbly illustrated with numerous black-and-white, excellently captioned photos. . . "—School Library Journal"This work delves more deeply into Rosenwald's other charitable work and ably contextualizes the school-building program within the "separate but equal" social mandate that was then the law of the land. Plenty of black and white photos and architectural plans provide a vivid picture of the before-and-after state of post--Civil War black schools, and they also bring readers up to date on current preservation efforts. Index, citations, and print and online sources are included." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
£12.99
Razorbill The Emerald Sea
Book SynopsisMeet Tamsin, the Glittering Court’s hard-angled emerald. Her outsized aspirations make her a fierce competitor, rising to the top of the ranks. But when the ship she boards for the New World is tragically lost at sea, she is quite literally thrown off-course.
£14.99
Nomad Press Human Migration: Investigate the Global Journey
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£16.19
Nomad Press Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
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£16.36
Nomad Press Feminism: The March Toward Equal Rights for Women
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£21.80
