I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
Author: Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Recommended Age Range: 10+
Awards: A 2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List Selection; A CBC 2015 Children’s Choice Book Awards Finalist; A 2015 International Literacy Association Teachers’ Choice Selection
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
Author: Laura Hillman
Publisher: Simon Pulse (Pbk.)
Recommended Age Range: 14+
Awards: CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book; California Collections; IRA Notable Books for a Global Society; Kansas State Reading Circle List High School Title; Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List; NYPL Best Books for Teens; SSLI Book Award Honor Book
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Author: Patricia McCormick
Publisher: Hyperion
Recommended Age Range: 12+
Awards: National Book Award Finalist; Quill Award for Young Adult/Teen; Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2006; NPR’s Best Books of the Year 2006; ALA Top Ten List, Best Books of the Year, 2006; Gustav-Heinemann Peace Prize, 2009; Booklist 2006 Editor’s Choice Award; NYPL Best Books for the Teen Age; Children’s Literature Council’s Choice; Book Sense Pick
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Author: Lynda Blackmon Lowery; retold by Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley
Illustrator: PJ Loughran
Publisher: Speak
Recommended Age Range: 12+
Awards: A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book; Kirkus Best Books of 2015; Booklist Editors’ Choice 2015; BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015