justice

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justice

The Mockingbirds

2012
Alex Patrick is date-raped during her junior year at a boarding school largely governed by the students. Her only options are to stay silent or to ask for help from a secret student society.

America's victims

opposing viewpoints
1996
Presents twenty-six articles debating the effects of victimhood on American society, discussing whether the nation is being tested by increasing claims of oppression, or if recent concessions are an appropriate outcome of women's and civil rights movements.

Humanity's footprint

momentum, impact, and our global environment
2008
Discusses the threat human activity poses to the sustaining capacity of global ecosystems, covering population growth trends, use of resources, ozone depletion, water pollution, and other problems, and calls for socioenvironmental restoration.

Guilty!

2008
Thirteen-year-old Claudia learns about the American justice system when, while studying for an American history quiz at Anna's house, she and her friend Monica are accused of stealing ten dollars and their classmates believe them to be guilty, based on circumstantial evidence.

Fairness

2003
Easy-to-read scenarios, such as sharing a cookie with your brother or playing by the rules, provide lessons in fairness.

The lucky man

1979
The cumulative catastrophes of hard-luck Felix land him in court where a wise judge's decisions prove him a lucky man.

Blessed unrest

how the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming
2007
Tells the story of the twenty-first-century environmental/social justice movement, describing its intellectual origins, grass-roots nature, goals, diversity, and growth in influence, and examines its potential to profoundly change human society.

Peace is the way

writings on nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation
2000
A collection of writings by the greatest peacemakers of the twentieth century that highlight the struggle to promote peace and nonviolent action, covering the theory, practice, and spirituality of nonviolence.

And God cried, too

a kid's book of healing and hope
2002
The angel Gabriel helps Mikey, an angel-in-training, to understand why bad things happen for what seems to be no reason and how to hold on to hope and faith during difficult times.

Robbie Forester and the outlaws of Sherwood St.

2012
After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

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