2023 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
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Undercover Latina
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Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place
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Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader,
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Yonder
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Swim Team
Books for Older Children
2022 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
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Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
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How to Find What You’re Not Looking For
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Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
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Rez Dogs
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Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Books for Younger Children
View Books for Peace & Social Justice: A Panel Discussion with 2021 winning author, Christiana Soontornvat along with Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Selection Committee members held as part of the American Montessori Society’s 2021 Virtual Convention
Learn more about the American Montessori Society and their work in peace and social justice. © 2021 American Montessori Society. All rights reserved.
2021 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
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A Wish in the Dark
Books for Older ChildrenPong has grown up in Namwon Prison in Chattanna city, born to a prisoner who later died. Nok, daughter of Namwon Prison's warden, has grown up believing in the rule of law [...]
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We Are Water Protectors
Books for Younger ChildrenA young girl describes how water is viewed among her people. "Water is the first medicine, Nokomis told me . . . We come from water ... The river's rhythm runs through my veins [...]
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Black Is a Rainbow Color
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Land of the Cranes
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Finish the Fight!
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Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret
Books for Younger Children