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Books for teachers looking to supplement their Lucy Calkins Teen Activism unit. Some of these are fiction and some are non-fiction, but offering an option for reading groups within the greater scope of research.
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Flush
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Dream of Night
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Lockdown
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Monster
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Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
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Dear Bully: A Collection of Poems about Bullying
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Joyce Fields (Goodreads Author)
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Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
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Chained
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Lynne Kelly (Goodreads Author)
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The Tiger Rising
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
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The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
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Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author)
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Lyddie
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Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
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The Whispering Road
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Livi Michael (Goodreads Author)
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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
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A House of Tailors
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Orphan Train
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
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Bamboo People
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Mitali Perkins (Goodreads Author)
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Boys Without Names
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Kashmira Sheth (Goodreads Author)
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Hoot
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Carl Hiaasen (Goodreads Author)
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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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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
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Malala Yousafzai: Education Activist
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
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Malala Yousafzai: Warrior With Words
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Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
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A is for Activist
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Innosanto Nagara (Goodreads Author)
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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Iqbal
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No Ordinary Day
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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One Child Sold: Human Trafficking & Rights
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Ninth Ward
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Jewell Parker Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 7,011 ratings
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Zora and Me (Zora and Me, #1)
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The Rock and the River (The Rock and the River, #1)
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Kekla Magoon (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
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