Category: YA Non-Fiction

" A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918." --The Wall Street Journal Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs--at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning aut...
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Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

By: Frank, Anne

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Bantam : February 1997

Seller ID: 52406

ISBN-13: 9780553577129

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the consta...
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work

By: Jewell, Tiffany

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books : January 2020

Seller ID: 66721

ISBN-13: 9780711245211

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.com Also available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities to support your anti-racism journey Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. "I...
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Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

By: Joseph, Frederick

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Candlewick : January 2023

Seller ID: 64708

ISBN-13: 9781536223040

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Kimmerer, Robin Wall,Gray Smith, Monique

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Zest Books ? : November 2022

Seller ID: 64342

ISBN-13: 9781728458991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919

By: Kops, Deborah

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charlesbridge : February 2012

Seller ID: 65256

ISBN-13: 9781580893480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A strange and sticky piece of history. January 15, 1919, started off as a normal day in Boston's North End. Workers took a break for lunch, children played in the park, trains made trips between North and South Stations. Then all of a sudden a large tank of molasses exploded, sending shards of metal hundreds of feet away, collapsing buildings, and coating the harborfront community with a thick layer of sticky-sweet sludge. Deborah Kops takes the reader through this bizarre and relatively unknown disaster, including the cleanup and court proceedings that followed. What happened? Why did the tan...
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Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Krosoczka, Jarrett J.

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Graphix : May 2022

Seller ID: 66490

ISBN-13: 9781338356311

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The extraordinary -- and extraordinarily powerful -- follow-up to Hey, Kiddo.When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of times. Not only was he subject to some of the usual rituals that come with...
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Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

By: Moen, Erika,Nolan, Matthew

Price: $17.99

Publisher: Random House Graphic : March 2021

Seller ID: 52177

ISBN-13: 9781984893147

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

An inclusive, accessible and honest graphic novel guide to growing up, from gender and sexuality to consent and safe sex. Perfect for any teen starting to ask...Is what I'm feeling normal? Is what my body is doing normal? Am I normal? How do I know what are the right choices to make? How do I fix it when I make a mistake? Let's talk about it. Growing up is complicated. How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, about your identity, and about your body? Let's Talk About It provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched graphic novel guide to everything you...
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Hidden: A True Story of the Holocaust

By: Preston, Kati,Marsh, Dilleen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Kati Preston : April 2023

Seller ID: 66626

ISBN-13: 9781942155539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped

By: Reynolds, Jason,Kendi, Ibram

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers : March 2020

Seller ID: 46688

ISBN-13: 9780316453691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future....
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6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make Personal Workbook

By: Sean Covey

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK : January 2009

Seller ID: 61084

ISBN-13: 9781847374295

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This workbook companion to 'The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make' is full of exercises, illustrations and conversation topics designed to get kids talking and thinking about the big decisions they face as teenagers.
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