Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

ByLynda Blackmon Lowery,Elspeth Leacock,+1 more
2015 • 127 pages

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252 books

Middle Grade

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Kate Mester
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice
Across the Tracks
Beneath My Mother's Feet
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
The Magic Fish
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Red scarf girl a memoir of the Cultural Revolution

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155 books

Youth Media Awards

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Kate Mester
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir
Airborn
We Are Okay
Finding Winnie
American Born Chinese

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344 books

Nonfic

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Kate Mester
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice
Across the Tracks
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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48 books

Poetry & Novels In Verse

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Kate Mester
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Every Body Looking
Home Is Not a Country
The Red Pencil
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Brown Girl Dreaming
A Wreath for Emmett Till

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54 books

2015 2016 School Year

sberks
Sarah
The Sea of Tranquility
Half of a Yellow Sun
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe
Illuminae
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Girls Like Us

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8 books

Non Fiction

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Rebecca Nicole
How Minds Change
Gender Queer
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
All Boys Aren't Blue
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

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189 books

History

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Court
Doomed Queens
The Dead, The Doomed, and The Buried
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
A treasury of great American scandals
We Do: A Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Marriage
Helen Keller
Three Cups of Tea

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160 books

Memoir Biography

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Court
The World of Edward Gorey
Burton on Burton
The Only Pirate at the Party
You're Never Weird on the Internet
I Suck at Girls
Lizz free or die
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

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286 books

Merica

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Court
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
American Born Chinese
Travels with Charley
I Am America
America Again
A treasury of great American scandals
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

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30 books

Books For Students

sonjukka
Sarah
The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
Bamboo people
Fallout
An elephant in the garden
Weedflower
Prairie Lotus
Planet Earth Is Blue

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1,331 books

Books Written By Women

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Ash
Bohemian Manifesto
Fear of Fighting
Falling in Love with Natassia: A Novel
Russian Lover and Other Stories
College Girls
The PowerBook

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131 books

Graphic Novels

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Ash
Bad houses
Slow Storm
A Late Freeze
Cecil and Jordan in New York
Make Me a Woman
Special Exits
My Dirty Dumb Eyes

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341 books

Race Immigration Native

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Becca
Ghost
The Poet X
Children of Blood and Bone
When They Call You a Terrorist
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
March
March

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124 books

Young Adult

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Becca
The Girls I've Been
Elatsoe
Felix Ever After
This Adventure Ends
Rules for Vanishing
Let's Call It a Doomsday
Truly Devious

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163 books

Nonfiction

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Becca
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
The Glass Castle
Daily Afflictions
Educated: A Memoir
Blink

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56 books

Shorties

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Becca
Comfort Me with Apples
The Houseguest and Other Stories
Ms Ice Sandwich
Why God is a Woman
How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
Manywhere: Stories
The Night in Question

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490 books

Social History

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Spiritomb
Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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Spiritomb
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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87 books

History Black

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Spiritomb
Black History for Beginners
They Can't Kill Us All
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
The Black Panther Party : A Graphic Novel History
Body and Soul

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257 books

History United States

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Spiritomb
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty

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234 books

Memoir

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Spiritomb
Shout
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
This Time for Me
Chronically Me: Flushing Out My Life and Times With IBS: A Memoir in Comics
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today

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72 books

History Black American

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Spiritomb
Black History for Beginners
They Can't Kill Us All
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
The Black Panther Party : A Graphic Novel History
Body and Soul