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Social Justice January Virtual Display |
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1984 by Robert IckeThe classic story from George Orwell is adapted for the stage by Duncan Macmillan in this new version of 1984. The idea of the big-brother world and being constantly under surveillance is just as relevant now as when Orwell penned this classic.
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The Jungle by Upton SinclairThe horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America
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Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen YangAn introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves
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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth AcevedoAn evocative novel in verse by the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.
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The Music of What Happens by Bill KonigsbergA cool and popular gay teen who harbors a secret, intense crush and a poetic youth who is looking for Mr. Right in spite of his troubled family weigh what they are willing to risk while working together at an organic food truck during a blistering Arizona summer.
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The Voting Booth by Brandy ColbertPreparing to vote for the first time, Marva is indignant when she observes a fellow teen turned away from the voting booth and teams up with him to fight a corrupt system and search for a missing cat. By the award-winning author of Finding Yvonne.
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The Good Muslimby Tahmima AnamThe prize-winning author of A Golden Age presents a profoundly heartrending story about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh as seen through the eyes of one family
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Mudbound by Hillary JordanIn 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta
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Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther KingShares the author's argument for equality and an end to racial discrimination that explains why the civil rights struggle is vital to the United States
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A Queer History of The United States by Michael Bronski“In the age of Twitter and reductive history, we need a complex, fully realized, radical reassessment of history—and A Queer History of the United States is exactly that. Along the way, there are enough revelations and reassessments to fuel dozens of arguments about how we got to where we are today. I don't know when I have enjoyed a history so much.” —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
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On Fire : The (Burning) Case For A Green New Deal by Naomi KleinFor more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices
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Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason ReynoldsA timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited
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They Called Us Enemy by George TakeiPresents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism
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