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
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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
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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
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2021 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards
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Winner
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