Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F KIN Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Levine Querido Call No: HISTORICAL F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "1970s New Zealand. Similar to many places around the world, there is a lot of tension between the government and its people. Most especially, Pasifika folks in New Zealand (those from Pacific Island countries and the native Maori) are heavily discriminated against and many forced to leave. In diary format, one girl tells the story of a very eventful year for her and her family. The book runs the full gamut of life, from silly and hilarious family and school stuff to serious topics like the 'dawn raids' that the police led on Pasifika homes"--Provided by the publisher.
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2007., Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books Call No: LS Fic Banks Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s)FactHound Web Sites Series Title: Stone Arch.Summary Note: While a group of people camps near a road construction site in hopes of saving a hill that some believe holds a terrible secret, a large predator begins roaming the area.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: REALISTIC F FIR Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion"--Provided by the publisher.
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2008., Pre-adolescent, Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Call No: ER FIC BAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
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2020., Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F WIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
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-- Diary of a wimpy kidBy Kinney, Jeff2023., Pre-adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: FIC KIN Availability:3 of 4 At Location(s) Series Title: Diary of a Wimpy kid Volume: 18Summary Note: "In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it s shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?" --
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: REALISTIC F VAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old June Harper, shocked when her parents go on a campaign to clear the Dogwood Middle School library of objectionable books, starts a secret banned books library in an empty locker.
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[2014]., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: First US edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: [Violet Mackerel Volume: 6]Summary Note: Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Capstone Stone Arch Books Call No: 813.6 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: REALISTIC F ENG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
