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YA human rights
YA books that effectively examine human rights-related issues
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,749,504 ratings
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Never Fall Down
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,975,083 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Sometimes God Has a Kid's Face
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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3.81 avg rating — 7,598 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,818,772 ratings
score: 196,
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Son (The Giver, #4)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 111,921 ratings
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Everybody Sees the Ants
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A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 13,636 ratings
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Pretties (Uglies, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 277,831 ratings
score: 177,
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Perfected (Perfected, #1)
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Kate Jarvik Birch (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 8,646 ratings
score: 175,
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Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
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Eliot Schrefer (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 6,144 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 247,218 ratings
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 95,774 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 943,209 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
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4.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Nowhere to Stop
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 270,296 ratings
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 611,025 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
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4.79 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Take What You Can Carry
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3.15 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Bone Sparrow
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Zana Fraillon (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,584 ratings
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
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World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
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4.59 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Stitch (Stitch Trilogy, #1)
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Samantha Durante (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
score: 97,
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
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4.03 avg rating — 5,296 ratings
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Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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4.72 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The 13th Continuum (Continuum #1)
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Jennifer Brody (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 497 ratings
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
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3.94 avg rating — 5,294 ratings
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Inside Out (Insider, #1)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 25,003 ratings
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Dear America: With the Might of Angels - Audio
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4.14 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Outside In (Insider, #2)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 14,109 ratings
score: 94,
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My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
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3.73 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
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Shade's Children
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 13,561 ratings
score: 93,
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
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Kirby Larson (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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All Our Yesterdays
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Cristin Terrill (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 24,105 ratings
score: 92,
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Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl
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3.88 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Wolf by the Ears
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3.83 avg rating — 2,852 ratings
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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919
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3.97 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
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When She Was Good
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3.49 avg rating — 639 ratings
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The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
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3.78 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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Running Out of Time (Out of Time #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 28,343 ratings
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Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
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Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
score: 89,
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Reboot (Reboot, #1)
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Amy Tintera (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 34,630 ratings
score: 88,
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Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein
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Carol Matas (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 799 ratings
score: 88,
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The Farm (The Farm, #1)
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Emily McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 4,733 ratings
score: 87,
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Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
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3.78 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Mirror X (The Van Winkle Project, #1)
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Karri Thompson (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 456 ratings
score: 86,
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A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson
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Karleen Bradford (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 688 ratings
score: 86,
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Article 5 (Article 5, #1)
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Kristen Simmons (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 28,248 ratings
score: 85,
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These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens
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3.74 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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The Registry (The Registry, #1)
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Shannon Stoker (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
score: 84,
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Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
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3.95 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 23,121 ratings
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Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948
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Carol Matas (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 515 ratings
score: 83,
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
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Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 52,834 ratings
score: 82,
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Blood Upon Our Land: The North West Resistance Diary Of Josephine Bouvier
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3.75 avg rating — 439 ratings
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XVI (XVI, #1)
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Julia Karr (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 7,707 ratings
score: 81,
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Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 625 ratings
score: 81,
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Only Ever Yours
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3.76 avg rating — 18,036 ratings
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The Testing (The Testing, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 81,723 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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3.96 avg rating — 16,747 ratings
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Tarnished (Perfected, #2)
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Kate Jarvik Birch (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
score: 75,
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list created November 29th, 2012
by Robin Kirk (votes) .
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