Category: High school (grades 9+)

All Out

The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages

Different genres that deal with LGBTQ themes and, specifically, intersectionality, that is, various social identities, such as race, gender, sexuality and class, that contribute to discrimination and oppression.

Year of Release: 2018

Author(s): Saundra Mitchell, editor (Several authors)

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35140599-all-out?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6biaStStRY&rank=1

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/All-Out-No-Longer-Secret-Stories-throughout-ebook/dp/B071G1G7VQ/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=All+Out%3A+The+No-Longer-Secret+Stories+Of+Queer+Teens+Throughout+The+Ages&qid=1639165460&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Tags class, discrimination, homosexuality, identity, LGBTQI, race, sexuality

2010-2019 All eBook English High school (grades 9+) LGBTQI* Novel Print

Playing a part

Grisha adores the Moscow puppet theater where his parents work, but is bullied mercilessly because of it, and is considered not “masculine” enough, even by his own grandfather. Things take a turn for the worse when Grisha learns that Sam, his favorite actor and mentor, is leaving the country to escape homophobia.

Year of Release: 2015

Author(s): Daria Wilke, Marian Schwartz

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23013677-playing-a-part?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=V3DGNpBctC&rank=2

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Playing-Part-English-Daria-Wilke-ebook/dp/B00OBOA786/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=playing+a+part&qid=1639161990&s=digital-text&sr=1-5

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Tags bullying, discrimination, homosexuality, LGBTQI

1946-1999 All Available For Free (Open Access) eBook English Extracts - Well Suited for Teaching With Extracts High school (grades 9+) Online Other Text Formats Print

The Freedom Writers Diary

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Post date 10 December 2021
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How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

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A young English teacher works with “at-risk” students who deal with hostility and racial intolerance on a daily basis. After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, they start to work on an joint diary with anonimuos entries aimed against intolerance and misunderstanding.

Year of Release: 1999

Author(s): Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47304.The_Freedom_Writers_Diary?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=aiWr9Tk00l&rank=3

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Freedom-Writers-Diary-Movie-Tie-ebook/dp/B000Q9J092/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=the+freedom+writers+diary&qid=1639159066&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Online text: https://oiipdf.com/download/the-freedom-writers-diary-how-a-teacher-and-150-teens-used-writing-to-change-themselves-and-the-world-around-them

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Tags cultural identity, discrimination, education, identiity, race, racial injustices

2010-2019 All English High school (grades 9+) Novel Online Print

Little bee: a novel

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Little Bee, an illegal Nigerian refugee, seeks the help of Sarah and her husband Andrew, whom she met a few years prior. As the story unfolds, and as they try to navigate the situation, we learn more about the circumstances that brought them together in the first place.

Year of Release: 2010

Author(s): Chris Cleave

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6948436-little-bee?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=5WKk8NfSve&rank=1

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Online text: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5845214W/Little_Bee?edition=littlebee00clea

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Only for advanced readers.

Tags friendship, migration

2010-2019 All Available For Free (Open Access) eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Online Print

Pride

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Contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starring characters of colour. Zuri and her four sisters try and hold onto their cultural identity as they adjust to their rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, circumstance which is highlighted by the wealthy Darcy family moving in right across the street.

Year of Release: 2018

Author(s): Ibi Zoboi

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068632-pride?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=wEFTKZDcub&rank=1

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Pride-English-Ibi-Zoboi-ebook/dp/B0727TNDX8/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Pride+ibi+zoboi&qid=1639073648&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Online text: https://booksvooks.com/fullbook/pride-pdf-ibi-zoboi.html?page=1

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Also available here https://booktree.ng/pride-by-ibi-zoboi-pdf/

Tags blackness, class, coming of age, cultural identity, diversity, equality, teenage relationship

2010-2019 All eBook English High school (grades 9+) Other Text Formats Print

I am Malala

The story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban.

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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Year of Release: 2014

Author(s): Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17851885-i-am-malala?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=O6JQ8WvupA&rank=1

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Am-Malala-Education-Taliban-English-ebook/dp/B00E6X4GAW

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Can be borrowed for 14 days on Open Library: https://archive.org/details/iammalalagirlwho0000yous?view=theater

Tags Gender issues, migration

2020-today All eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

The Short Knife

The Short Knife is a historical novel set at the beginning of the Dark Ages, after the Romans have left Britain to its fate, which means marauding Saxon tribes. It charts the progress of two ‘British’ speaking sisters – the language which will develop into Welsh – who get separated, one ending up as a slave in an invading tribe, who has to learn the saxon language to survive. Chance brings them together at the end, in a surprising – but violent – situation.

Year of Release: 2020

Author(s): Elen Caldecott

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53007562-the-short-knife

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Short-Knife-English-Elen-Caldecott-ebook/dp/B0875TWM1L/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=the+short+knife&qid=1639073368&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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The target is 14+, but it is likely to appeal to an adult readership too.
Also in Kindle format.

Tags Language conflict, migration, Sibling solidarity

2010-2019 All eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

Pigeon

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Pigeon relates the life of a disaffected teenager in a north wales village who is accused of killing his mother’s new (English and therefore foreign) partner. It is a story of loss, but also friendship (through Pigeon’s relationship with Iola, who is the narrator in alternate chapters), about language loss, but also language discovery.

Year of Release: 2016

Author(s): Alys Conran

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28194710-pigeon

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.it/Pigeon-English-Alys-Conran-ebook/dp/B01GQJIN84/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=pigeon&qid=1639073218&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

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Aimed at a market of 15+ years, but is likely to appeal to an adult readership too.
Also in Kindle format.