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#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
The editors present a stereotypebusting, zinelike collection of personal essays, illustrations, and photos from and about the marginalized experiences of indigenous young women. This energetic showcase of contemporary lives demonstrates the strength and vitality of living heritages through a rich, visually stunning riot of art and memoir. -
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781554519583
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42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
Outstanding athlete, exceptional courage AND restraint in the face of violent hatred, Jackie Robinson is a hero for all ages.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9780763676247
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
An African-American teenage boy is charged with setting an agender white teen on fire aboard a bus in Oakland, California. The riveting story behind the headlines is told in brief, gripping chapters that invite teens to think deeply about social justice issues. -
Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father
The life and times of Alexander Hamilton, from his rise out of poverty to the heights of his career in post-Revolutionary War politics, and his scandal-ridden fall from grace.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9780399580000
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
Here is the story of leader Alice Paul, from the women's suffrage movement—the long struggle for votes for women—to the “second wave,” when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the right to vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Passage of the ERA became the rallying cry of a new movement of young women in the 1960s and '70s. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. She set in motion the “sex amendment,” which remains a crucial legal tool for helping women fight discrimination in the workplace. Includes archival images, author's note, bibliography, and source notes.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781629793238
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Becoming Unbecoming
It's 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it's a really good song. There's another song, chanted on the terraces by Leeds United fans. It might not have made it on to Top of the Pops, but the boys all sing it on the walk home from school: "One Yorkshire Ripper . . . There's only one Yorkshire Ripper . . . One Yorkshire Ri-pper . . ." A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police—despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times—are struggling to solve the case. As this national news story unfolds around her, Una finds herself on the receiving end of a series of violent acts for which she feels she is to blame. Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame, and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost. -
Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2
Despite the dangers of riding through the Jim Crow South, Bessie Stringfield made history by spending decades riding her motorcycle across the U.S., and eventually became known as the Motor Cycle Queen of Miami. This is her story.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781938486944
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The Best We Could Do
Spurred on by the birth of her first child, author Thi Bui tries to reconcile the experiences of the journey her ancestors took from war torn Vietnam through to present day California.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781419718779
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order).
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from 1600 to the present day for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781452152363
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California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas
Told through anecdotes of her family and friends, this detailed look at singer Mama Cass Elliot, of The Mamas and the Papas fame, traces her life from early childhood through to the formation of the band.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781626725461
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The Creeps
A collection of fears, showing all the irrational, hidden worries we have as humans that have never before been spoken aloud, much less illustrated.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9780399579141
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted—relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore "Sex and Power in the Black Church," discuss how "Clair Huxtable is Dead," list "Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop," and dwell on "Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?)." Self-described as "critical homegirls," the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781558619432
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781524733131
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Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
Anthology of art and writings from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today.- Nonfiction
- AILA Youth Literature Award Honor - Young Adult 2018
- ISBN: 9781554516865
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Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
Meet Robert Capo and Gerda Taro, young refugees and fearless pioneers of photojournalism, who documented the savagery of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. In capturing a struggle against fascism that presaged World War II, their body of work reflects the evolution of photography as a journalistic medium.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2018
- ISBN: 9780805098358
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Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
The autobiographical story of the complex relationship between the author, Nicole, and her misunderstood dog, Beija, and the challenges Nicole faced as she tried to find healing for them both.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9780544577831
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Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time
Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school. But one girl with courage is a revolution. Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. She examines barriers to education in depth—early child marriage and childbearing, slavery, sexual trafficking, gender discrimination, and poverty—and shows how removing these barriers means not only a better life for girls, but safer, healthier, and more prosperous communities.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9780553511468
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Emotionally riveting and eye-opening, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is the incredible story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life. Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life. After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child's inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Alex Awards 2018, Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781250105998
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
Sandra sees her mother and sister gunned down when she is ten. Surviving that massacre, she becomes a refugee struggling with no home and no money. Sandra escapes, comes to the United States, and faces many challenges while building a new life.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9780062470140
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It's All Absolutely Fine: Life is Complicated so I've Drawn it Instead
Through drawings and brief prose anecdotes, Ruby Elliot conveys her experiences of functioning with mental illness with honesty, humor and insight.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 978144948424
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Lighter than My Shadow
The author's personal account of the eating disorders she developed in an attempt to manage the black scribbles of her inner thoughts. Green candidly recounts both her steps and missteps along her path to recovery.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781941302415
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States had begun to invade Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American society. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father's native homeland of Jordan, and Amani experienced firsthand a culture built on pure religion, not Islamic stereotypes. Inspired by her trip and after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was marginalized and neglected during a time when all the media could talk about was, ironically, Muslim women, Amani created a website called MuslimGirl. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism. This is the extraordinary account of Amani's journey through adolescence as a Muslim girl, from the Islamophobia she's faced on a daily basis, to the website she launched that became a cultural phenomenon, to the nation's political climate in the 2016 election cycle with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. While dispelling the myth that a headscarf makes you a walking target for terrorism, she shares both her own personal accounts and anecdotes from the “sisterhood” of writers that serve as her editorial team at MuslimGirl. Amani's honest, urgent message is fresh, timely, and a deeply necessary counterpoint to the current rhetoric about the Middle East.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781501159503
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The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
Kwame uses basketball terminology and anecdotes from famous athletes and leaders to inspire and motivate young people to achieve and succeed.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9780544570979
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Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
A sweet and honest story written as a series of comics that chronologically detail introvert Debbie's college years to the present.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781449486068
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Real Friends: A True Story About Cool Kids and Crybabies
A relatable graphic memoir about fitting in (or not), growing up, and finding your friends.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781626727854
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Rendez-vous in Phoenix
An autobiographical account of the author's illegal crossings from Mexico to the U.S. In 1998.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781942367284
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Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D
Gary Gygax's life is chronicled in relation to the creation of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781568585598
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Sandwiches!: More Than You've Ever Wanted to Know About Making and Eating America's Favorite Food
Easy-to-follow sandwich recipes, accompanied by fun facts will make stomachs growl! From simple Level 1 "Plate and Knife" to Level 2 "Toaster and Microwave" on up to "The Big Time" Level 5, young chefs of all skill levels will be satiated.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9781623708160
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Spinning
A mesmerizing tale of Tillie Walden's devotion to the sport of ice skating and her struggle to stay in the competitive arena as other passions in her life begin to surface.- Nonfiction
- Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018
- ISBN: 9781626729407
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Unstoppable: True Stories of Amazing Bionic Animals
This collection of courageous stories shows readers how 3-D printing and brain-controlled prosthetics are helping animals right now.- Nonfiction
- Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2018
- ISBN: 9780544879669
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Inspired by the more than 700 letters the van Gogh brothers wrote to each other, Heiligman uncovers fresh insights into Vincent's development as an artist and his relationship with the brother who supported him emotionally and financially throughout his life- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2018, Michael L. Printz Award 2018
- ISBN: 9780805093391
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
Cinematic portrayals of the high seas can't touch the rollicking realities of life aboard the Eighteenth century ship, The Whydah.- Nonfiction
- Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 2018
- ISBN: 9780763680336
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson. Phoebe Robinson is a stand-up comic, which means that, often, her everyday experiences become points of comedic fodder. And as a black woman in America, she maintains, sometimes you need to have a sense of humor to deal with the absurdity you are handed on the daily. Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend," as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn t that . . . white people music?"); she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace; she's been followed around stores by security guards; and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. the. time. Now, she's ready to take these topics to the page and she s going to make you laugh as she s doing it. Using her trademark wit alongside pop-culture references galore, Robinson explores everything from why Lisa Bonet is "Queen. Bae. Jesus," to breaking down the terrible nature of casting calls, to giving her less-than-traditional advice to the future female president, and demanding that the NFL clean up its act, all told in the same conversational voice that launched her podcast, "2 Dope Queens," to the top spot on iTunes. As personal as it is political, "You Can't Touch My Hair" examines our cultural climate and skewers our biases with humor and heart, announcing Robinson as a writer on the rise."- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9780143129202
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You're in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People
Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues From Laverne Cox to Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beattie ( the pregnant man ) to transgender youth, coverage of transgender lives has been exploding over the last few years. Despite being prolifically covered in the media, much misinformation about the trans community persists. Bringing together the medical, social, psychological, and political aspects of being transgender today in the United States, " You re in the Wrong Bathroom!: And 20 Other Myths About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People" unpacks the twenty-one most common myths about transgender people. Authors Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, a psychiatrist, and Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R, a psychotherapist, address myths about trans identity ( all trans people are trapped in the wrong body ), sex and relationships ( most trans people do sex work and have HIV ), health and safety ( trans people are mentally ill and therapy can change them ), and history and community ( trans people and feminists don t get along ).- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9780807033890