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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Reviewed by Don Allen Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: This outstanding graphic novel fills a huge void in the Kent State literature. While Kent State University’s library has a whole room dedicated to May 4th, 1970 – there is enough reading to last for years – there have been few books for young […]

Greta and the Giants

Reviewed by Deborah Menkart Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: NOT RECOMMENDED: So, we just got another picture book in the mail about Greta Thunberg. (This is at least the 4th children’s book about Greta.) Called Greta and the Giants, it implies that Greta was the first climate activist. The story is that […]

Ways to Make Sunshine

Reviewed by Jazelle Hunt Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: With Ways to Make Sunshine, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson brings us a confident, bright, aspiring chef named Ryan Hart, an African American girl “with a name that a lot of boys have.” When we meet Ryan she is […]

Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation

Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Written for young adults, Poisoned Water gives a harrowing account of the Flint water crisis. The disaster that unfolded wasn’t something that happened just with the turn of a switch from the Detroit water supply to the contaminated Flint River. This was 100 years […]

Hands Up!

Reviewed by Deborah W. Thomas Tellin’ Stories Roving Readers Coordinator Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Hands up! What comes to mind when you hear that? Is it a command, a request, a statement? Does “hands up!” illicit feelings of anger, negativity or sadness? Breanna McDaniel shows us in this children’s picture book, illustrated […]

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything

Reviewed by Don Allen Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: All the Way to the Top attempts to fill a gap in children’s literature, but it disappoints in a couple of areas. Based on the real life of Jennifer Keelan-Chafins, the picture book shows how she became media famous in the movement for disability […]