Freedom School, Yes!
Title | Freedom School, Yes! PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Littlesugar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780439376006 |
When their house is attacked because her mother volunteered to take in the young white woman who has come to teach black children at the Freedom School, Jolie is afraid, but she overcomes her fear after learning the value of education.
Freedom Summer
Title | Freedom Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Wiles |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0689830165 |
The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, this work introduces a white boy living in the South of 1964, who recounts his first experience of racial prejudice--and his friendship with a black boy that defied it. Full color.
Freedom's Challenge
Title | Freedom's Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Anne McCaffrey |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0698143833 |
The alien Catteni invaded Earth and enslaved thousands of humans on the planet Botany, where they struggle to survive while colonizing the world for their overseers. Now that they’ve proved Botany is capable of sustaining life, Kris Bjornsen and her fellow settlers have no intention of surrendering the home they’ve created for themselves… Armed with the knowledge that the true enemy behind the Catteni is the Eosi race, Kris has begun a campaign to free Botany’s settlers by raising a rebellion among her people against their parasitic oppressors. Aided by her Catteni lover, Zainal, Kris and the colonists manage to steal warships—and discover dissidents on other Eosi-controlled worlds. If all of the subjugated races join forces, they will have an army large enough to win their freedom and their worlds. The war of liberation has begun.
Troublemakers
Title | Troublemakers PDF eBook |
Author | Carla Shalaby |
Publisher | The New Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1620972379 |
A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children" In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight—for educators and parents alike—into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands—despite good intentions—work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society.
The Fear of Freedom
Title | The Fear of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Erich Fromm |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Civil rights |
ISBN |
Freedom
Title | Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Jaycee Dugard |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-07-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501147633 |
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Flight to Freedom
Title | Flight to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Veciana-Suarez |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Cuba |
ISBN | 9780439381994 |
First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.