Category Archives: social issues
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Before I Fall
Posted on November 22, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in social issues, Young Adult/Teenby Lauren Oliver Samantha is a stereo-typical popular girl: pretty, mean, and determined to stay on top. She’s not always happy with her hunky boyfriend or her best friend, but she remembers what it was like to be at the bottom of the social circle, and she’s not going back. However, when tragedy strikes, [...]
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Turtle in Paradise
Posted on November 19, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Adventure, Historical Fiction, social issuesby Jennifer L. Holm Turtle is no movie star. She knows things aren’t always perfect. She sees things as they truly are and doesn’t expect that every story has a happily ever after. Maybe even for her favorite orphan, Little Orphan Annie. After her mama gets a job for a rich older lady who doesn’t [...]
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Your Life, but Better
Posted on October 21, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Adventure, Humorous Stories, social issuesIt’s Your Life, but Better! Have you ever read a book and wanted the character to make different choices? Do you ever think about what you would do if you were in the same situation? Well, here is your chance. Crystal Velasquez has written a series of books about YOU. You choose where you go, [...]
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The Dancing Pancake
Posted on October 21, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, Poetry, social issuesMeet Bindi Winkler. She is trying to survive her parents seperation, moving into a small apartment above her mother and aunts new restraunt, The Dancing Pancake, and avoiding her father at all costs…since afterall, this is all his fault. Right? This book, by children’s author Eileen Spinieli, is told through a series of prose-like poems. [...]
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Viola in Reel Life
Posted on October 19, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in social issues, Young Adult/TeenFourteen year old Viola is perfectly content surrounded by the scenes of Brooklyn, NY, learning the in’s and out’s of professional film making from her documentary filmaker parents, and sharing her dreams and asperations with her best friend Andrew. Then, her parents have to ruin it all by leaving her in “nowhere” (South Bend) Indiana [...]
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Also Known as Harper
Posted on October 17, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Inspirational, social issues, William Allen WhiteHarper Lee was named after her momma’s favorite writer, so it’s fitting that she spends so much of her time expressing herself in poetry. In this novel, by Ann Haywood Leal, Harper shares her heartwarming tale of loss, love and survival one carefully chosen word at a time. Harper Lee, her younger brother Hemingway and [...]
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An Unfinished Angel
Posted on August 19, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Fantasy, social issuesby Sharon Creech “Me, I am an angel. I am supposed to be having all the words in all the languages, but I am not. Many are missing. I am also not having a special assignment. I think I did not get all the training.” The angel narrator of the story is confused about his [...]
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Out of My Mind
Posted on May 3, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in social issuesBy Sharon Draper Melody is incredibly smart but everyone treats her like she can’t even understand what they are saying to (or about) her. She has cerebral palsy, so she can’t control her body or speak at all. Because Melody has never been able to say what’s on her mind, almost everyone assumes that her [...]
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Beyond Dolls & Guns: 101 Ways to Help Children Avoid Gender Bias
Posted on April 23, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Nonfiction, Parent's Shelf, social issuesBy Susan Hoy Crawford Could you define sexism? Could you explain it to someone else? This book offers advice on how to first identify gender bias and then provides ideas and steps to counteract our society’s gender stereotypes. Each point provides ideas and examples to help attain the goal. Many points also have links to [...]
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Slant
Posted on March 15, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in social issuesby Laura Williams Lauren is Korean-American, and she is tired of being called “Slant” in school. She’s sure she’ll be happy and popular if she could just have surgery on her eyes to make them more “American.” She’s saved up enough money to pay for the surgery, but she isn’t sure her dad will let [...]
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