Change Makers: An Annotated Bibliography of Social Action in Children's and Young Adult Literature

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Huessy, Elizabeth
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • A recent focus in education on the importance of teaching social justice issues necessitates the creation of resources to support teachers and librarians in this work. This annotated bibliography recommends a selection of children's and young adult literature that features social action and social justice in the areas of human and civil rights, labor and community organizing, and the environment and animal welfare. This resource is not comprehensive, rather it highlights a selection of high-quality literature published in the last twenty years that through the genres of realistic fiction, historical fiction, narrative non-fiction and biography, provides models of social action for young people. Through identification with the literary role models in these works, children and teens can begin to understand the myriad forms that social justice can take and be empowered to make change in their own lives. This, then, is a collection of works for exploring the lives of historical change makers, imagining fictional ones, and identifying with the unsung heroes in our midst today.
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  • Hughes-Hassell, Sandra
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 54
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