Friends and classmates take to social media to share their feelings - only it doesn't stay there. Soon, everyone's behaving differently in school too. It seems what happens online, doesn't stay online.
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Lewis "Shoe" Blake is in grade 7 and is used to being teased. What he's not used to is people like George Haddonfield being nice to him. But, what if George really knew Lewis? Could they still be friends?
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Aija Mayrock knows a thing or two about standing up to bullies. This Survival Guide draws on Aija's experiences and seeks to help others overcome bullying.
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While Joe and Ravi come from very different places - Joe's lived here all his live and Ravi's just arrived - the two realize they have more in common than they first thought. A story that highlights the power of friendship and kindness.
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Butch Pounder is a new kid in school - and word has it, he's mean. But, are all the rumours true? Maybe all Butch is looking for is a new friend.
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Winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor and the Jane Addams Peace Award, this book illustrates how kindness can change the world. With a positive, anti-bullying message, this book illustrates how simple acts of kindness and friendship can have big effects.
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Mean Jean ruled as Recess Queen. No one did anything until she said it was ok to do so. Until a new kid came to school, who worked to end Mean Jean's rule - and befriend her at the same time!
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Billy Bully keeps hurting his friends' feelings. Soon, he has no one to play with. But, he learns that by being kind to others, he'll always have someone to play with.
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Llama Llama likes school and learning new things. But, it seems what Gilroy Goat likes is teasing others. This book helps young students deal with teasing and bullying.
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At eight, Olemaun is taken from her village in the high Arctic to attend a residential school. This first-hand account, true story shares Olemaun - who is called Margaret at the school - experiences, both at the residential school, and then upon coming home to a culture she's been forced to give up.
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This first-hand account shares Olemaun's - now called Margaret by her school's nuns - experiences in the residential school system, and contrasts that to the life she knew at home in the high Arctic.
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For two years, Margaret was living away from her family and community in a residential school, where she was forced to give up her traditional language and customs. Now, she's going home, but soon feels like an outsider. This true story provides a first-hand account of the lasting effects of the residential school system.
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When he was 10, Larry Loyie was forced to leave his Cree family and community to attend St. Bernard's Mission Residential School in Grourard, Atlanta. This book captures the summer before Larry left his community.
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When five children are taken from their home - Tsartlip First Nation - to the isolated Kuper Island Residential School, their lives are changed for every. Written in consultation of this school's survivors, this fictional story brings readers a first-hand account of this experience and its lasting legacy.
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This 2009 TD Canadian Children's Literature award winning book captures life at residential school, as experienced through six-year-old Shin-chi and his older sister, Shi-shi-etko. This book captures the essence of the lives Canadian Indigenous children had to leave behind upon being taken into the Residential School System.
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This beautifully illustrated book shares Shi-shi-etko's appreciation of home, before leaving for a residential school. Throughout the book, Shi-shi-etko works to capture and learn lessons from her family to keep her safe when she's separated from them.
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Acclaimed Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith introduces readers to stories about residential school survivors and allies working to put the findings from Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission into action. The book helps to increase awareness and understanding of the legacy and current realities of the impacts of Canada's residential school system
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A story about a young girl rediscovering her family's heritage as she learns about her grandmother's experience in residential schools.
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In 1978, Police detective Ron Stallworth launched an undercover investigation into Colarado Springs Ku Klux Klan activity. During the investigation, he gained membership into the KKK, eventually being asked to serve as the chapter leader, and even served as David Duke’s bodyguard. Did we mention that Detective Stallworth was black? Stallworth’s book explores how he worked to pull off this sting operation.
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Known by scientists only as HeLa, Henrietta Lacks was an impoverished, black tobacco farmer whose cells were unknowingly taken in 1951 and used in a number of scientific studies, including the creation of the polio vaccine, insights into cloning and gene mapping, and breakthroughs in in vitro fertilization. Her cells have been bought and sold by millions, while family cannot even afford health insurance. Exploring the intersection of ethics, race, medicine, and trying to understand family.
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This autobiography traces the history of Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid, his quarter-century of imprisonment, and his rise to serve as President of South Africa. A story of overcoming struggles and facing adversity, Mandela’s story continues to provide others with hope and the promise of a better future.
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It’s the deep south in the great depression. A black man has been falsley accused of raping a white girl, and racial tensions rise. To Kill a Mockingbird shares how one girl, Jean Louise (Scout) finch awakens to the realities of race and racism, not only in her town, but in her country.
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Racist thought is alive and well in contemporary America, despite many Americans beliefs to the contrary. In this book, Ibram X. Keni explores the long and lingering history of racist ideas, illustrating that they didn’t arise from ignorance and hatred, but rather were intentionally created to justify and rationalize the nation’s entrenched and discriminatory policies.
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Author Patrisse Khan-Cullors was raised by her single mother in an impoverished Los Angeles neighbourhood, where she experienced the prejudice and persecution of black Americans at the hands of the police. In 2013, Patrisse’s outrage of Trayvon Martin’s killer going free led her, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, to co-found Black Lives Matter. Championing human rights, despite being condemned as terrorists, Patrisse and her co-founders survived. An empower account of standing up, speaking out and pushing back.
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In the 1950, America was divided by colour. And no where was this more pervasive, perhaps, than the deep south. White journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross this colour line. Taking a medication to alter his skin tone, he gave up his privilege as a Southern white man to live a life as an unemployed black man. This memoir chronicles Giffin’s journey through the segregated south, as he experiences racism first-hand.
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September 11. For Changez, who left Pakistan to study at Harvard and work in New York CIty at a prestigious financial analysis firm, it was a day when the world shifted under his feet. Before September 11, he was in love with an American woman from New York’s society. He was successful. After September 11, he no longer knew where he belonged.
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In this thought-provoking book, author Robin DiAngle tackles American racism by challenging white supremacy. In it, she explains how white people have misunderstood the concept of racism, refusing to talk about it openly, and challenges all white people to be courageous enough to see their role in the existing racist system.
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Written as a letter to his 15 year-old son, Samori, Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on how to live as a black person in America. In it, he shares of his childhood in Baltimore’s ghettos to his experience in university. Throughout the letter, he struggles to help his son navigate the world as a black boy - of his need to be “twice as good” and “follow the rules,” and that even then, things may not turn out right. A moving book that challenges all readers to reconsider what it means to live in a black body in today’s world.
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At seven, Austin learned her parents named her to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white male. In her book, Austin Channing Brown explores how many institutions are falling short on claims of valuing diversity. In it she explores how white, middle-class Evangelicalism is playing a role in fueling racial hostility in America.
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Set in the near future (sometimes frighteningly near in today’s political climate), The Handmaid’s Tale shares the story of a handmaid, named Offred, as she navigates Gilead. In Gilead, women are subjugated to the authority of men. They are not allowed to read, hold jobs or form true friendships. The society is divided into classes: Wives, who stand faithfully behind their husbands, Commanders in Gilead; Ecoonowives, who are able to remain married to low-ranking husbands and have children so long as they are faithful and free of sin; Marthas, who are servants in Commanders’ homes; Unwomen, who are the lowest ranking and are sent to forced labour camps; Jezebels, or sex-workeers; Aunts, who train the Handmaidens for their work; and, Handmaids who exist for one purpose only, breeding. The book follows Offred’s reflections on life before Gilead, and her efforts to lead a rebellion towards its downfall.
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An autobiographical tale, Maya shares her coming-of-age story, underscoring how strength of character and her love of literature helped her overcome her experiences of racism. The book follows Maya’s life from age 3 to 16, and sees her transition from victim to a dignified young woman with the courage and ability to stand up to racism.
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Author Carol Anderson examines the white reaction - including rage and racism - to African American advances to full participation in American democracy. Through a historical analysis, she reexamines the decisions made to “protect democracy” and shedding light on America’s white rage.
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Written when black Americans were celebrating the presidency of Barack Obama, hailed the nation’s “triumph over race,” the author explores how and why the majority of young black men in major American cities have been labeled felons and are spending their lives behind bars. Somehow, despite eliminating Jim Crow laws, many African American communities remain trapped in subordinate social classes. This critique argues that the racial caste system in America hasn’t been undone, only redesigned.
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Mala was 15 years old when she refused to stay silent against the Taliban rule. On October 9, on her trip to school, she was shot in the head and left for dead - the Taliban’s effort to teach her and others to get in line. But, she survived the attack, and her voice grew stronger still.
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Three stories collide for an unexpected twist. First, all Jin Wang wants to do is fit in, which is hard when you’re the only Chinese American in your school. Second, a retelling of the beloved Chinese fable The Monkey King. And, finally, Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and this is ruining his cousin Danny’s life at school.
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Starr Carter lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood she calls home, and the upscale prep school she attends. The tension she feels is tightened the day she sees her friend, Khalil, killed by a police officer. Khalil was unarmed, but the police officer thought otherwise. She’s the only witness to the shooting. The story follows Starr and her two worlds as they deal with the national headline case.
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Why is an Ivy League-bound student in handcuffs? Dear Martin follows Justyce McAllister’s struggles in leaving one neighbourhood behind, only to be ridiculed by his new classmates. He journals to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to try to find present-day insights in his teachings. A timely book that deals with the realities of racial profiling.
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A story of standing out and fitting in. The book follows the quirky Stargirl, who is known equally for her outlandish outfits and behaviour as by her kiness, bravery and non-conformity.
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Two teens - one black, the other white - grapple with the effects of a single violent act that has left their school, community and country divided by racial tension. And to think, it all started with a bag of chips.
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Set against the backdrop of the 1937 New London school explosion (the worst school disaster in American History), this novel explores segregation, love, family and the forces that can destroy.
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August Pullman was born with a number of health issues that kept him home from school - until now. Told from various perspectives, Wonder tells the story of one community’s journey towards empathy, compassion and acceptance.
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Steve Harmon is a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. By telling his story, Steve seeks to understand how one decision can alter our lives.
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Tariq Johnson is 16 when he dies from gunshot wounds, sending his community into a spiral. Tariq is black. His shooter, white. A timely and relevant story that seeks to make sense of a life violently cut short, and the search for truth.
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The inside story of the Civil Right Movement shared by one its most iconic figures, Congressman John Lewis. This award-winning graphic novel trilogy recounts Lewis’ life in the movement.
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Reyna Grande shares her story of living in a world divided. Growing up her parents left Mexico for “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) leaving her Reyna and her siblings to live in an overcrowded home with her grandparents. That is until her mother returns, and Reyna makes her own journey to El Otro Lado. An insightful first-hand account of the immigrant experience.
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All that separates Bruno and Shmuel is a fence. And yet, they live lives worlds apart. Set in a World War II prison camp, this book follows Bruno as he grows from ignorance to understanding.
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This award-winning novel tells the story of Arthur Spirit, called Junior, a young Native American boy growing up on the Spokane Indian Reserve. Determined to create his own future, Junior decides to attend an off-rez high school where the only other Indian is the school’s mascot.
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Michael never challenged his parents political views until Mina showed up in school. A timely tale that tackles Islamophobia, prejudice and fear.
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A timeless parable about the gift of giving and acceptance. Picture book.
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A book that reminds us that a person's a person, no matter how small! Picture book.
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It can be lonely when you're a nerdy birdy. A book about differences and belonging. Picture book.
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Can Mary's good deed change the world? Picture book.
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The colours aren't getting along - until One shows them how to stand up, stand together and count. Picture book.
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Young Nikolai knows he wants to be the best person possible, but he doesn't always know what is the right thing to do. Picture book.
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A book about kindness, coursety, respect and friendship. A funny and endearing story about truning a best enemy into a best friend. Picture book.
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No matter where children live - or what they look like - they're all the same where it matters the most: at heart! Picture book. (Originally featured as a song on Sesame Street)
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A beautiful story to encourage kindness in children. Picture book.
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The Pet Club doesn't understand that, like people, pets can come in all shapes and sizes. A book on the lessons of friendship and acceptance. Picture book.
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A story about a girl who stands up to bullying, and remembers the lesson of her grandma: to stand tall. Picture book.
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The world can be a scary place - but shouldn't we be more aware of kindness too? Picture book.
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A story of one girl who inspires her whole community to stand up to bullying. Inspired by real events. Picture book.
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A monster loses his M and becomming an onster, and teaches us the important lesson of being kind. Picture book.
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While on the bus with his grandma, a young boy struggles to understand why he is so different from his friends. Picture book.
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A young girl uses a magic box of yarn to transform her community. Picture book
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A tender tale about the importance of listening to another's hurt. YPicture book.
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Kindness is powerful and magical. Most importantly, it can help everyone be seen. Picture book.
VIEW BOOK DETAILSBruno's father is given a position of power at a Nazi concentration camp. There, he meets and befriends Shmuel, a prisoner. Young adult.
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