CitizenKid
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Author
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Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of twenty-five families from twenty-one countries surrounded by a week's worth of food"--Provided by publisher
This volume visits 25 families in 21 countries around the world. Each family is photographed surrounded by a week's worth of food and groceries, which the authors use as a way of investigating not only different cultures' diets and standard of living but also the...
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Tree of life: the incredible biodiversity of life on Earth
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Ryan and Jimmy: and the well in Africa that brought them together
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One hen: how one small loan made a big difference
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Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book uses a simple metaphor to create a snapshot--past, present and future--to help readers imagine America as a village of 100 people, exploring their lives to help children and readers of all ages to discover a whole new vision of America.
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
©2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maria Luz and her family have a small farm in Honduras, but may not have enough food to sustain them for the year, so Maria's father must leave home to find work, leaving her in charge of the garden.
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This child, every child: a book about the world's children
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Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mimi's fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor or uneven. As a result, every day, 21,000 children under the age of five die, most of them from diseases that could have been prevented with basic health care."--Front jacket flap.
"Mimi Malaho and her family help bring basic health care to their community. By making small changes like sleeping under...
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Planet ark: preserving Earth's biodiversity
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Razia's ray of hope: one girl's dream of an education
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Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the...
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The red bicycle: the extraordinary story of one ordinary bicycle
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On our way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and her march for children's rights
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Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories illustrating civil liberties.
Mayor Moe and the councillors of the City often need to come up with new laws to keep things ticking along smoothly. But what happens when they don't agree about the solution to a problem? In each story the councillors are presented with a problem, and the group then makes a decision to address the problem with a new law, only to discover later there were unintended consequences in each instance....
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The banana-leaf ball: how play can change the world
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The elephant keeper: caring for orphaned elephants in Zambia
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Iqbal and his ingenious idea: how a science project helps one family and the planet
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A voice for the spirit bears: how one boy inspired millions to save a rare animal
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Author
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy grows up to bring positive change to his village in India. This story is true, and it started with a boy named Sundar. After the deaths of his mother, and later his daughter, Sundar Paliwal knows what he has to do. He is determined to live in a place where girls and boys are treated equally and where the surrounding countryside is not ravaged by irresponsible mining. And so he comes up with a plan. In rural India, where many people cling to...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Half the children of the world -- the girls -- are treated unfairly because of their gender. But girls around the word are taking action. The International Day of the Girl features nine inspiring stories based on real girls' experiences with gender inequality around the word. From Brazil to Afghanistan to Canada, each story highlights issues faced by girls -- including gender-based violence, illiteracy, sanitation and child marriage -- and how they've...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Victor is a pretty typical eight-year-old: he races to get his chores done, finds math challenging and likes to play with his friends. One day, the new school teacher introduces Vic and the other students to the idea of equality between boys and girls. Vic has never really thought about it before, but he soon begins to notice the disparities around him. Like all the older girls and women in their Malawi village, his twin sister, Linesi, now walks...