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Human Rights & Activism

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

The books and related learning resources in this collection are about standing up, speaking out and taking action. These activites and resources will inspire the next generation to become responsible citizens and contribute to making the world a better place.

What Milly Did

The extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling possible.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Text Forms & Genres, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Comprehension Strategies, Developing & Creating Texts

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Human Rights & Activism

Audience: ages 8 to 11 / grades 3 to 6

No Vacancy

With the help of her Catholic friend, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl creates a provocative local tourist attraction to save her family's failing motel.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Key Ideas & Details, Vocabulary Acquisition, Developing & Creating Texts, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning

Topics: Diversity, Human Rights & Activism, Prejudice & Racism

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

Prisoner and the Writer

An illustrated, middle-grade treatment of the Dreyfus Affair told from the perspectives of Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus and writer Emile Zola.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Text Forms & Genres, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Further Research, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Developing & Creating Texts, Key Ideas & Details

Topics: Human Rights & Activism, Prejudice & Racism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

Mud City

A re-issue of Mud City, the third book in the bestselling Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis. Includes a new cover and map, and an updated author's note.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Text Forms & Genres, Developing & Creating Texts

Topics: Emigration & Immigration, Human Rights & Activism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 10 to 14 / grades 5 to 9

My Name is Seepeetza

An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Further Research, Developing & Creating Texts, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Comprehension Strategies, Oral Language

Topics: Diversity, Human Rights & Activism, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7