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The list features fiction titles that are highlighted by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.


 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Paperback)

By Sherman Alexie
$11.99
ISBN-13: 9780316013697
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2009
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Coming of age story set on Spokane Indian Reservation.

The Birchbark House (Paperback)

By Louise Erdrich
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780786814541
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Published: Hyperion, 6/2002
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YA novel that centers on young Omakayas and her Ojibwa family who live on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

A Boy from Ireland (Hardcover)

By Marie Raphael
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780892553310
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Published: Persea Books, 9/2007

Bread and Roses, Too (Paperback)

By Katherine Paterson
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780547076515
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Published: Sandpiper, 9/2008
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Moving YA novel based on a major strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.

Bull Run (Paperback)

By Paul Fleischman
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780064405881
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Published: HarperCollins, 5/1995
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The Civil War told through various perspectives.

Bud, Not Buddy (Paperback)

By Christopher Paul Curtis
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780440413288
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Published: Yearling, 1/2002
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Catch a Tiger by the Toe (Hardcover)

By Ellen S. Levine
This title is out of print or has limited availability. Email for information.
ISBN-13: 9780670884612
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Viking Juvenile, 5/2005

Fire In the Hole! (Hardcover)

By Mary Cronk Farrell
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780618446346
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Published: Clarion Books, 10/2004

Little Brother (Hardcover)

By Cory Doctorow
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780765319852
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Published: Tor Teen, 4/2008
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Set in the very near future, Little Brother goes to technological places that Orwell's Big Brother couldn't.

Mama's Window (Paperback)

By Lynn Rubright, Duane Smith, Patricia C. McKissack
$8.95
ISBN-13: 9781600603358
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Published: Lee & Low Books, 2/2008
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My Mother the Cheerleader (Paperback)

By Robert Sharenow
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780061148989
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Published: HarperTeen, 2/2009
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Louise's mother spends her mornings at the local elementary school with a group of women, known as the Cheerleaders, who harass the school's first black student, six-year-old Ruby Bridges.

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam (Paperback)

By Walter Dean Myers, Ann Grifalconi
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780060731595
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Published: HarperCollins, 1/2005
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Sophisticated picture book on one soldier's patrol in Vietnam.

Pink and Say (Hardcover)

By Patricia Polacco
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780399226717
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Published: Philomel Books, 9/1994
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Satchel Paige (Paperback)

By Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780689856815
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Published: Aladdin, 1/2003
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Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A. (Paperback)

By Diana Cohn, Francisco Delgado
$7.95
ISBN-13: 9780938317890
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Published: Cinco Puntos Press, 1/2004
A child supports his mother in the janitor strikes in Los Angeles.

Sunrise Over Fallujah (Hardcover)

By Walter Dean Myers
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780439916240
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Published: Scholastic Press, 5/2008
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YA novel about a U.S. soldier in Iraq.

Swimmy (Paperback)

By Leo Lionni
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780394826202
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Published: Dragonfly Books, 4/1973
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A classic tale for young children about the power of organizing.

That's Not Fair! / No Es Justo!: Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice/La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia (Hardcover)

By Carmen Tafolla, Sharyll Teneyuca, Terry Ybanez
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780916727338
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Published: Wings Press, 4/2008
True story of a noted labor organizer Emma Tenayuca.

A Thousand Never Evers (Hardcover)

By Shana Burg
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780385734707
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 6/2008
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When the Horses Ride by: Children in the Times of War (Hardcover)

By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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ISBN-13: 9781584302490
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Lee & Low Books, 5/2006
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Poems provide great prompt for children to discuss war.

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