Discrimination

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Discrimination

• nonfiction books

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An annotated list . . .

• Click on the image of any book to read online
  reviews published at Amazon.com.
• NOTE Some titles may no longer be available in
  bookstores.
• Check your local public library.

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Red Scarf Girl a Memoir of the Cultural
Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang

• The author recounts her struggles as a teenager
  living in China during the Cultural Revolution.

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Witnesses to Freedom Young People Who Fought for
Civil Rights by Belinda Rochelle

• Children can also be freedom fighters. Read the
  stories of nine whose willingness to take a
  stand for what they believed changed our world.

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Leons Story by Leon Walter Tillage

• The author shares his childhood experiences in an
  African-American family of sharecroppers living
  in rural North Carolina duringthe 1940s.

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Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

• The author recalls her childhood experiences
  living in a Japanese internment camp during World
  War II.

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We Beat the Streets by Sampson Davis, George
Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sharon Davis

• Three young men, who grew up together in an
  inner-city New Jersey neighborhood, made a pact
  to help each other achieve a shared goal
  becoming a doctor. This is their story.

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The Secret of Priests Grotto A Holocaust
Survival Story by Peter Lane Taylor and Christos
Nicola

• This survival story shows how several Jewish
  families hid from the Nazis during World War II
  for almost a year, literallygoing underground.

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Hidden on the Mountain Stories of Children
Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambonby Deborah
Durland DeSaix Karen Gray Ruelle

• This French Resistance story explains how
  thousands of children were hidden inin a tiny
  French villageuntil they could besmuggled to
  safety inSwitzerland.

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We are the Ship The Story of Negro League
Baseball by Kadir Nelson

• This book chronicles the lesser-known successes
  of the Negro Leagues that set the stage for
  Jackie Robinsonsintegration of ournational
  sport.

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Freedom Walkers The Story of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott by Russell Freedman

• This text unveils the behind-the-scene storyof
  how the Montgomery Bus Boycott came to be.

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The Cat with the Yellow Star Coming of Age in
Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin

• This book is a memoir of a Jewish woman who, as a
  child, was cast in the role of a cat in a opera.
  What you might not expect is that thischild, and
  those whoperformed with her, were concentration
  camp residents at the time.

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Freedom Riders John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the
Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann
Bausum

• Personal stories of freedom riders, both black
  and white, during the early 1960s come to life in
  this account.

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Forbidden Schoolhouse The True and Dramatic
Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by
Suzanne Jurmain

• Two decades before the Civil War, Prudence
  Crandall courageously attempted to offer
  African-American girls in her Connecticut
  community an education. This is their story.

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Let Me Play The Story of Title IX by Karen
Blumenthal

• This is the turbulent story of how Title IX came
  to be, of how women came to be recognized as
  athletes in their own right.

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Hitler Youth Growing Up in Hitlers Shadow by
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

• Did you ever wonder what it might have been like
  to be a young teenager growing up in Hitlers
  Germany?Could what happenedto teenagers
  thenhappen in our worldtoday?

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The Voice That Challenged a Nation Marian
Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by
Russell Freedman

• Imagine being a gifted contralto and being denied
  the right to attend the music school of your
  choice. This is the storyof a woman who asked
  only to be allowed to sing but whosevoice was
  to be best remembered for the doorsit opened
  for others.

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Escape from Saigon How a Vietnam War Orphan
Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren

• During Operation Babylift in 1975, more than
  2,000 Vietnamese orphans werematched with
  adoptive familiesaround the world.This is the
  true story of one of those children.

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With Courage and Cloth Winning the Fight for a
Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum

• This account features the impact that the women
  of two suffragist organizationsThe National
  American Woman Suffrage Association and the
  National Womens Partyhad on ensuring women
  the right to vote.

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Tenement Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side
by Raymond Bial

• Imagine coming to a country far from homenew
  language, new customs. What must life have been
  like for immigrants in the tenements of New
  York around the turn of the 20th century?

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Osceola Memories of a Sharecroppers Daughter
by Alan B. Govenar

• An African-American woman, born just after the
  turn of the twentieth century, recounts stories
  of growing upin a sharecroppingfamily.

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Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

• Child labor was a common practice in our country
  during the 1800s and early 1900s.Sometimes it
  was the children, not just the adults, who
  fought to changethis unfair practice.

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Bound for America The Forced Migration of
Africans to the New World by James Haskins,
Kathleen Benson

• What was life on a slave ship like? This book,
  rich in primary text excerpts and illustrations,
  brings that experienceto life . . .

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Summer is for reading . . .

• Enjoy!