The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality.
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The Lost Year
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is stuck at home in New Jersey with his mom and great-grandmother during the Covid pandemic, while his father, a newspaper correspondent, is away and cannot return because of the border closures. His great-grandmother, nicknamed GG, has never talked about her childhood, but Matthew finds out she survived a harrowing time known as the Holodomor, a terrible famine that killed millions of Ukrainians and was subsequently covered up by the Soviet regime. Inspired by the author’s own family history, Marsh expertly weaves a story of the Soviet Ukraine of the 1930s and the present-day United States.
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, tells her story here in this powerful and award-winning memoir.
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We've Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Grades 7 and up. In May 1963, over 4000 children and teenagers boycotted school in Birmingham, Alabama in order to march in protest of segregation. This book contains in-depth interviews with four of the children who risked attacks by segregationists, policemen, and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as jail, to participate in the protests. This books makes excellent use of primary source documents.
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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
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With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
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Esperanza Rising
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
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Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History through Indian Art
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Child of the Owl
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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The Princess and the Admiral
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The Riddle of Racism
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The Little Fishes
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Stick-in-the-Mud
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