Social Justice & Activism Archives

Filters

Clear Filters

Are you looking for a custom collection? Contact our sales team who will curate a list for you!

Books (52)
Collections (1)

Show

Sort by

View as

Edie for Equality
Edie Windsor Stands Up for Love
By Michael Genhart, Cheryl Thuesday
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Clear

Edie for Equality quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Edie for Equality
Edie Windsor Stands Up for Love
By Michael Genhart, Cheryl Thuesday
This is a story about a great injustice and how Edie Windsor boldly stood up for what was right and went up against the highest court in the United States.

Pre-order from your local independent bookstore or the online retailers listed below:

Bookshop Barnes & Noble Amazon

View Details
- Teacher’s Guide
Generation Queer
Stories of Youth Organizers, Artists, and Educators
By Kimm Topping, Anshika Khullar
Format
Hardcover$22.95
Clear

Generation Queer quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Generation Queer
Stories of Youth Organizers, Artists, and Educators
By Kimm Topping, Anshika Khullar
- Teacher’s Guide
Activism. Art. Community care. Education. These are the hallmarks of the work done by the youth highlighted in this collection featuring LGBTQ+ leaders working to make our world more inclusive.

Pre-order from your local independent bookstore or the online retailers listed below:

Bookshop Barnes & Noble Amazon

View Details
- Teacher’s Guide
Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro
By Juan Felipe Herrera, Honorio Robledo Tapia
Format
Paperback$10.95
Clear

Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro
By Juan Felipe Herrera, Honorio Robledo Tapia
- Teacher’s Guide
An empowering story by former US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera about a young girl who uses her newfound superpowers to rescue her mamá from the United States-Mexico border.

View Details
Butterfly for a King
Saving Hawaiʻi’s Kamehameha Butterflies
By Cindy Trumbore, Susan L. Roth
Format
Hardcover$21.95
Clear

Butterfly for a King quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Butterfly for a King
Saving Hawaiʻi’s Kamehameha Butterflies
By Cindy Trumbore, Susan L. Roth
The fascinating true story of a beautiful native Hawaiian butterfly, a great Hawaiian warrior king, and current-day efforts by scientists and citizens to restore the butterfly's declining population.

View Details
The Protest (Confetti Kids #10)
(Dive Into Reading)
By Samantha Thornhill, Shirley Ng-Benitez
Format
HardcoverOut of stock
Paperback$10.95
Clear

The Protest (Confetti Kids #10) quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Protest (Confetti Kids #10)
(Dive Into Reading)
By Samantha Thornhill, Shirley Ng-Benitez
In this book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her friends organize a protest in order to save their neighborhood public garden from being demolished.

View Details
Sharuko
El arqueólogo peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
By Monica Brown, Elisa Chavarri
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Clear

Sharuko quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Sharuko
El arqueólogo peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
By Monica Brown, Elisa Chavarri
A fascinating bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello, who unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and fostered pride in the country's Indigenous history.

View Details
She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Clear

She Was the First! quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politician Shirley Chisholm.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
Format
Paperback$10.95
Clear

The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
This exciting entry in the "Story of" line of chapter-book biographies introduces readers to Robert Smalls, an enslaved steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

View Details
Malala Yousafzai
Warrior with Words
By Karen Leggett Abouraya, Susan L. Roth
Format
Hardcover$19.95
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Malala Yousafzai quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Malala Yousafzai
Warrior with Words
By Karen Leggett Abouraya, Susan L. Roth
The inspiring true story of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who has become an international activist for universal education, with beautiful collage illustrations by award-winning artist Susan L. Roth.

View Details
The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong
By Paula Yoo, Lin Wang
Format
Paperback$10.95
Clear

The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong
By Paula Yoo, Lin Wang
This entry in the innovative "Story" line of chapter-book biographies focuses on Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Hollywood broke new ground for future generations of Asian American actors.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
All the Stars Denied
By Guadalupe García McCall, Susan L. Roth
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Clear

All the Stars Denied quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
All the Stars Denied
By Guadalupe García McCall, Susan L. Roth
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Pura Belpré Award Winner Guadalupe García McCall tackles the hidden history of the United States and its first mass deportation that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.

Audiobook Edition

View Details
Hammering for Freedom
The William Lewis Story
By Rita Lorraine Hubbard, John Holyfield
Format
Hardcover$19.95
Clear

Hammering for Freedom quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Hammering for Freedom
The William Lewis Story
By Rita Lorraine Hubbard, John Holyfield
The inspirational story of William "Bill" Lewis, a hardworking blacksmith who slowly saved his money and bought the freedom of each and every member of his enslaved family.

View Details
Midnight Teacher
Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
By Janet Halfmann, London Ladd
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Clear

Midnight Teacher quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Midnight Teacher
Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
By Janet Halfmann, London Ladd
This historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.

View Details
I Am Alfonso Jones
By Tony Medina, John Jennings, Stacey Robinson
Format
Paperback$18.95
Clear

I Am Alfonso Jones quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
I Am Alfonso Jones
By Tony Medina, John Jennings, Stacey Robinson
The Hate U Give meets The Lovely Bones in this unflinching graphic novel about the afterlife of a young man killed by an off-duty police officer, co-illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist John Jennings.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
The People Shall Continue
By Simon J. Ortiz, Sharol Graves
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

The People Shall Continue quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The People Shall Continue
By Simon J. Ortiz, Sharol Graves
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
Republished for its fortieth anniversary, this powerful story by renowned Acoma Pueblo poet and storyteller Simon J. Ortiz traces the history of Native / Indigenous people of North America from the time of creation to the present.

View Details
Ahimsa
By Supriya Kelkar
Format
Hardcover$21.95
Clear

Ahimsa quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Ahimsa
By Supriya Kelkar
In this historical middle-grade novel, Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.

Audiobook Edition

View Details
Martí's Song for Freedom
Martí y sus versos por la libertad
By Emma Otheguy, Beatriz Vidal
Format
Hardcover$19.95
Clear

Martí's Song for Freedom quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Martí's Song for Freedom
Martí y sus versos por la libertad
By Emma Otheguy, Beatriz Vidal
A bilingual biography of José Martí, who dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty-abolishment of slavery, political independence for Cuba, and intellectual independence from colonialism for all Latinos. Written in verse with excerpts from Martí's seminal work, Versos sencillos.

View Details
- 4
- Teacher’s Guide
Sparkle Boy
By Lesléa Newman, Maria Mola
Format
Hardcover$19.95
Clear

Sparkle Boy quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Sparkle Boy
By Lesléa Newman, Maria Mola
- 4
- Teacher’s Guide
Young Casey loves sparkly things, just like his older sister, who does not approve until an encounter with teasing bullies helps her learn to accept and respect Casey for who he is.

View Details
- 5
- Teacher’s Guide
Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
By Uma Krishnaswami, Nidhi Chanani
Format
Hardcover$21.95
Clear

Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
By Uma Krishnaswami, Nidhi Chanani
- 5
- Teacher’s Guide
Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland.

Other editions:

Audiobook

View Details
Sale!
- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
Growing Peace
A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony
By Richard Sobol
Paperback: Original price was: $12.95.Current price is: $11.95.
Format
Hardcover$20.95
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Growing Peace quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Growing Peace
A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony
By Richard Sobol
- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
Discounted pricing is only valid via credit card checkout at leeandlow.com. Discounts cannot be applied to any books under the Bebop Books® imprint, and may not be combined with other offers.

This stunning photo-essay for children is a story of coexistence, focusing on Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families in a Ugandan village who created a Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative and learned to live and work together peacefully.

View Details