JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
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- Project TGIF, charities started by kids!, by Melissa Sherman Pearl and David A. Sherman
- The ABCs of AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from A to Z, Jamia Wilson ; illustrated by Krystal Quiles
- I look up to... Malala Yousafzai, Anna Membrino ; Fatti Burke
- Gandhi for kids, his life and ideas, with 21 activities, Ellen Mahoney
- Under the freedom tree, Susan Vanhecke ; Illustrated by London Ladd
- FUNDaFIELD, charities started by kids!, by Melissa Sherman Pearl and David A. Sherman
- Greta Thunberg, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Anke Weckmann
- Greta's story, the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet, by Valentina Camerini ; translated by Moreno Giovannoni ; illustrations by Veronica "Veci" Carratello
- Alia Muhammad Baker, saving a library from war, by Lindsay Bacher
- The Greensboro lunch counter, what an artifact can tell us about the Civil Rights Movement, by Shawn Pryor
- Gandhi, text, Cl?mentine V. Baron ; translation, Catherine Nolan ; illustrations, Bruno Wennagel [and six others]
- Sophie Scholl fights Hitler's regime, by Clara MacCarald
- The little book of little activists, with an introduction by Bob Bland, co-chair of the Women's March on Washington ; & afterword by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, author of Turning 15 on the road of freedom
- Make meatballs sing, the life & art of Corita Kent, words by Matthew Burgess ; pictures by Kara Kramer
- Jacob Riis's camera, bringing light to tenement children, Alexis O'Neill ; illustrated by Gary Kelley
- Kids who are saving the planet, by Laurie Calkhoven ; illustrated by Monique Dong
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?, by Bonnie Bader ; illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf
- The story of trailblazing actor Ira Aldridge, by Glenda Armand ; with illustrations by Floyd Cooper
- Ida Wells, journalist and activist, by Duchess Harris, JD, PHD ; with Samantha S. Bell
- Dear Malala, we stand with you, Rosemary McCarney with Plan International
- Malala Yousafzai, Lisa Williamson ; illustrations by Mike Smith
- A is for activist, Innosanto Nagara
- Above the rim, how Elgin Baylor changed basketball, by Jen Bryant ; illustrations by Frank Morrison
- Black & white, the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, Larry Dane Brimner
- YFA, young, fearless, awesome : twenty-five young people who changed the world
- Lift as you climb, the story of Ella Baker, Patricia Hruby Powell ; R. Gregory Christie
- Susan B. Anthony, her fight for equal rights, by Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Maike Plenzke
- Princesas que cambiaron el cuento, Virginia Mosquera, Lydia Sánchez
- Oprah, by Alison Oliver
- Free as a bird, the story of Malala, written and illustrated by Lina Maslo
- Who was Susan B. Anthony?, by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso ; illustrated by Mike Lacey
- Rosa Parks, text, Clémentine V. Baron ; translation, Catherine Nolan ; illustrations, Bruno Wennagel, Mathieu Ferret, Aurélie Verdon
- Peace, love, action!, everyday acts of goodness from A to Z, Tanya Zabinski ; foreword by Ani DiFranco
- Frederick Douglass, Emma E. Haldy ; illustrator, Jeff Bane
- People of peace, Sandrine Mirza & Le Duo
- Born in 1818, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Bloomer, Julie Knutson
- Mightier than the sword, rebels, reformers, and revolutionaries who changed the world through writing, by Rochelle Melander ; illustrated by Melina Ontiveros
- My night in the planetarium, by Innosanto Nagara
- Climate action, what happened and what we can do, Seymour Simon
- Claudette Colvin, Martha London
- Martin rising, requiem for a King, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney
- The passing of the civil rights act of 1964, by Xina M. Uhl
- Cesar Chavez, get to know the leader who won rights for workers, by Rebecca Langston-George
- No voice too small, fourteen young Americans making history, edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley ; illustrated by Jeanette Bradley
- Colin Kaepernick, from free agent to change agent, Eric Braun
- Booker T. Washington, by Jehan Jones-Radgowski
- We are the change, words of inspiration from civil rights leaders, with art from Selina Alko [and fifteen others] ; with an introduction by Harry Belafonte
- Chasing King's killer, the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin, by James L. Swanson ; foreword by Congressman John Lewis
- Cesar Chavez, friend to farm workers, by Jeri Cipriano ; illustrated by Nigel Dobbyn
- Wilma's way home, the life of Wilma Mankiller, by Doreen Rappaport ; illustrated by Linda Kukuk