Social Justice

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherfordreview by Beth Crow YouTube Reading of this book (4:11) Sixty-three years ago — on February 4, 1960 — African-American students staged a sit-in at a  segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, an act that began  a national movement protesting segregation. Freedom on

by Heather Dean Brewer, author; and LeUyen Pham, illustratorreview by Anne Stokes Heather Dean Brewer is a writer, artist, and art director who designs books for kids and adults and loves to ride her bike in the woods. About this book she says, “I’ve often felt quiet and small and that no one could hear

by Michael Hallreview by Emily Phillips A blue crayon is mislabeled as red. All the other crayons want him to draw things that are red  but he can’t get it right. It says red on his label so that must be right. They tell him he needs to  try harder and keep practicing but he

by William Kamkwambareview by Becky Showalter The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the inspiring true story of a boy in Malawi who designs and builds a windmill to power his home in famine-stricken Malawi. William Kamkwamba is forced to leave school at 11 years old because his family cannot pay his school fees.  Instead