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• Represent

  the Unfinished Fight for the Vote

  Dyson, Michael Eric,

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  An exploration of the ongoing fight for democracy in the United States, from the American Revolution to the present day

• The Voting Booth

  Colbert, Brandy,

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  The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.

• How I Resist

  Activism and Hope for a New Generation

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  In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Call This Democracy?

  How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People

  Rusch, Elizabeth,

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  America is the greatest democracy in the world ... isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them

• Dear Justyce

  Stone, Nic,

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  Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.

• Running

  Sylvester, Natalia,

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  When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prez. Volume 1, Corndog-in-chief

  Russell, Mark, 1971-

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  Meet Beth Ross, the first teenaged President of the United States. In a nation where corporations can run for office, the poor are used as human billboards, and tacos are delivered by drone, our only hope is this nineteen-year-old Twitter sensation.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The (un)popular Vote

  Sanchez, Jasper,

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  Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yes No Maybe So

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.

• This Book Is Feminist

  An Intersectional Primer for Next-gen Changemakers

  Wilson, Jamia, 1980-

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  Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Own Worst Enemy

  Jack, Gordon, 1966-

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  Follows three candidates running for Lincoln High's student body president with three different platforms and who will stop at nothing to be elected.

• Drawing the Vote

  An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America

  Jenkins, Tommy, 1972-

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  Coinciding with the 2020 US presidential election, Drawing the Vote, an original graphic novel, looks at the history of voting rights in the United States, and how it has affected the way we vote today.

• Most Likely

  Watson, Sarah (Television writer),

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  In 2049, as the President of the United States waits to be sworn in, she reflects on senior year in high school when she and her three dear friends vied for the attention of the future First Gentleman.

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Perfect Candidate

  Stone, Peter (Media marketing consultant),

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  When Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with a powerful U.S. Congressman he admires, he soon learns that not everything in Washington, D.C. is as it appears.

• I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

  Lieb, Josh

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  In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suffrage Song

  the Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the United States of America

  Cass, Caitlin,

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  Begun in the Antebellum era, the song of suffrage was a rallying cry across the nation that would persist over a century. Capturing the spirit of this refrain, New Yorker contributing cartoonist Caitlin Cass pens a sweeping history of women's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Votes of Confidence

  a Young Person's Guide to American Elections

  Fleischer, Jeff,

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  Every four years, coverage of the presidential elections turns into a horse-race story about who is leading, and who said what then. Fleischer explains the past, present, and future of American elections; how the election process actually works and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win

  Boyer, Susan Azim,

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  After lying on her college admissions, seventeen-year-old Jasmine needs to win her senior class election, but the Iran Hostage Crisis explodes across the nightly news and her opponent begins to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school causing Jasmine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Summer for Young People

  the Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

  Watson, Bruce, 1953-

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  "In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity…Read moreRead more of this annotation