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Joy, Angela

Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Kulling, Monica

Summary: "It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KUL

Turke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld

Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TUR

Keating, Jess

Summary: From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job in a laboratory at Cambridge University, New York. But then she faced another barrior: women were not allowed on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

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