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Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The B Words walks readers through thirteen key challenges that women encounter in their career paths, showing how to navigate them with confidence and ultimately manifest the bravery needed to achieve for self-defined success. Author Tricia Kagerer not only explores the hurdles we all have faced or will face in the workforce but also offers effective strategies that combat the true root causes of the inequality we must stamp out to create a brighter...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Beautifully written, without anger or pity, Disability Pride is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems different.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
5) The talk
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe. Bell examines how "the talk" has shaped nearly every moment of his life into adulthood and fatherhood. Through evocative original illustrations, The Talk is a meditation on this coming-of-age--as...
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