For nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn't just the apartment she shares with Mami and her abuela, Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. When Mami receives a letter saying they'll have to move out, Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she's not about to give up and leave.
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.
With a steady increase among young adults who vote, help high school students explorethe role and importance of the youth vote, consider barriers to the youth vote, and propose ideas for taking action.
Help elementary students understandthe language of bias in our lives and ways they can make a difference by exploringletter exchanges between 9-year-old Riley Morrison and NBA player Stephen Curry about the Curry 5's.
Paula Young Shelton,the daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history.
English teacher, Erin Gruwell, changes the lives and perspectives of 150 “at-risk” students through helping them draw parallels in books such as Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, to their own lives.
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World
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Each day features a different influential figure in African American history, from Crispus Attucks to Madame C. J. Walker to Barack Obama and many others
This collection of influential stories provides forty-six illustrated examples of strong, independent female role models, all of whom first impacted the world as teenagers or younger.
Book One of this graphic novel trilogy spans Congressman John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement and their battle to tear down segregation.