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1946-1999 All Audiobook eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

To kill a Mockingbird

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Set in Alabama in the mid-thirties, the novel follows the attempts made by a lawyer and his children to prove the innocence of a black man falsely accused of rape.

Year of Release: 1960

Author(s): Harper Lee

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Graphic novel version available here
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2010-2019 All eBook English High school (grades 9+) LGBTQI* Print Short Story

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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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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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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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

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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2010-2019 All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

Hearts Unbroken

Louise Wolfe finds herself in difficult situations for being a Native teenager in a mostly white, middle-class town. Her first boyfriend disrespects Native people, the inclusive approach of their school musical drastically fails and she considers dating while being Native extremely hard. Will she and Joey, her co-editor of the school newspaper, be able to fall in love?

Year of Release: 2018

Author(s): Cynthia Leitich Smith

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