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Sofia is put in charge of overseeing a fair election for a class pet, but first the Questioneers must learn about elections and good journalism--and remember that being a community matters most. Includes facts about the Delano Grape Strike, presidential elections, journalism, and the importance of voting.
12) Elect me!
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A class learns about elections and campaigning as they vote for a class president. Includes activity.
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"Election season is here and Monster is ready to vote! But why cast your ballot when you can run for president instead? With speeches, debates, and a soapbox or two, Monster's newest tale is a campaign encouraging kids to take a stand and fight for what they believe in"--
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When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
15) Vote for our zoo
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A class learns about elections and campaigning as they try to save their local zoo from closing. Includes activity.
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A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times).
P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition...
P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition...
17) The state of us
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Teenage boy Dean Arnault's mother is the Republican candidate running for president, which means Dean has been thrust into a national spotlight he never imagined. One day before a debate with the Democratic opposition, Dean is in the green room, where he meets Dre Rosario, the son of his mom's opponent. The two boys realize they are gay and start an affair, and are then blackmailed by someone claiming to have pictures that will "change everything."...
18) Class act
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Jada Jones's campaign for class representative pits her against her friend Miles and leads to rumors about her fear of public speaking, the pressure to make promises she cannot keep, and conflict between friends.
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"A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important thinkers on revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in human history."--Jacket.
20) Hope was here
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.