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1) Birnam Wood
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English
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"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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One small act of kindness can change the world. Lady Gaga has always believed in the importance celebrating individuality, acting with empathy, and being kind to yourself and other. She and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, founded Born This Way Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a kinder and braver place. Within these pages you will meet young change makers who found their inner strength, who prevailed in the face of...
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"One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard into a playground! Based on a true story, this is the uplifting tale of how the author's aunt and mother first learned to persevere in the face of disappointment and turned a dream into reality. This is a story of children's ability to make a difference and of a community coming together to transform their neighborhood."--Jacket.
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"Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the world," Mama says. "How will the whole world hear?" Mari wonders. "They'll hear," says Mama, "because love is powerful." Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women's March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer's simple and uplifting story, delightfully illustrated by LeUyen Pham,...
5) Creative community organizing: a guide for rabble-rousers, activists, and quiet lovers of justice
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A practical guide to community organizing that gathers the accumulated lessons, strategies, and secrets a veteran activist's forty-four years of experience.
This latest work by legendary activist, musician, and author Si Kahn is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does describe many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it's also about community organizing as a way of thinking...
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"Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering...
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Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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The story of a Gotham-like city in which a catastrophic drought has led to draconian water-conservation measures, including a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The "privilege to pee" is regulated by a single malevolent corporation that profits by charging admission to the public toilets--and anyone who commits a desperate act like ducking behind a bush is dragged off by the police, never to be seen again.
8) Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
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English
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"Four influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement"--
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Erica Donato mysteries volume 5
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English
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"Erica Donato, PhD, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, is thrilled to meet Louisa Gibbs, a preservation icon, now an octogenarian. Louisa's home abuts against the property of the Jehovah's Witnesses' homebase, nicknamed "The Watchtower." As one of the biggest property holders in Brooklyn Heights, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been developing the neighborhood, slowly taking it over, one house at a time. Louisa is concerned that she's been receiving threats...
10) Marley Dias
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English
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"Offers a biography of child activist Marley Dias and explores how she has made a difference for other young girls."--Provided by publisher.
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"Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and...
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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You can make a difference, no matter how old you are! These kids are helping to save honeybees, teaching people the importance of clean air and water, raising money to help endangered birds, and writing petitions to raise awareness of climate change. You should meet these kids who are saving the planet!
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University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more prominent voice over their community's fate. In writing about Boston Chinatown's long history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar...
15) Bricks
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Just west of Jeffrey Heights, an one-thriving library languishes, transformed into a den of vices by the corrupt men in power. But Dan, a tenacious middle schooler, unearths the library's untold story and the power to unite the community." -- Back cover.
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Filled with inspiring photos of children at the Women's March on Washington and other protests and rallies, this book also includes inspirational quotes, simple ideas for how kids can get involved, brief definitions of concepts like "equality" and "feminism," and an introduction from a leading activist who's making a difference in the world today.
18) A hero like me
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"They call him "HERO," but he's no HERO--not to me. Every day, on her way to school, a little girl sees a towering statue: a statue of a man who sold freedom for cotton and tea. The world around her says this man is hero. But she knows he's not a hero--not a real one. Heroes are hard to find. She looks for them around corners, under rocks, and on TV, but there are none that she can see. And so, the little girl writes their names and marches for them...
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Downtown Bookworks
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Little ones who love to say "No!" can chime in while they learn about iconic activists from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malala. Each spread introduces an iconic figure--such as Gloria Steinem or Cesar Chavez--along with a super simple summary of the actions they took to change the course of history. Activists of all ages will learn about the abolitionist movement, civil rights, women's rights, and more! Detailed,...
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Black Lawrence Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project--an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself--that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displacement, and their futures. Peter Cryer is a queer teenager who fantasizes about leaving Baltimore and the instability of his home life while also seeking a place to belong. Ruth Anne, his prickly mother, is terrorized by her estranged husband and the indecision...
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