CitizenKid
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Comparing the world population to a village of 100 persons, the author reveals such facts as the languages of the village, how much each earns, if the person is literate, has a television and has enough to eat.
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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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If America were a village: a book about the people of the United States
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Author
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
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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Mimi's village: and how basic health care transformed it
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Planet ark: preserving Earth's biodiversity
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie want to go to school, like many other children in 1903, they work twelve hours, six days a week, at a cotton mill in Pennsylvania instead. So when the millworkers decide to go on strike, the two friends join the picket line. Maybe now life will change for them. But when a famous labor reformer named Mother Jones comes to hear of the millworkers demands, she tells them they need to do more than just...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
44 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
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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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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm.
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English
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"Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named Deo lives alone in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania. With scarce resources at the camp, bullies have formed gangs to steal what they can, and a leader named Remy has begun targeting Deo. Then one day a coach gathers all the children to play soccer. Though Deo loves soccer and has even made his own ball out of banana leaves, he's unsure at first about...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 14-year-old Aaron's village in Zambia, poaching for ivory is common practice, and elephants are feared because of the danger they pose to humans and the damage they often cause to crops so important to the villagers' livelihoods. But when Aaron encounters a newborn elephant in distress, his instinct is not to run away, but to jump to its rescue. This is the beginning of a beautiful bond of friendship and a meaningful vocation. This moving story,...
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2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 x 24 cm.
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English
Description
"It's monsoon season in Bangladesh, and that means Iqbal's mother must cook indoors over an open flame, even though the smoke is making her and the family sick. When Iqbal learns about the district science fair, with the theme of sustainability, he is determined to win first prize. With the cash reward, he can buy a pipe stove that draws smoke out of the house. Then Iqbal is struck with an ingenious idea! For his science fair project, he will build...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colored illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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The summer Simon turns thirteen, he becomes fascinated with a rare type of black bear called spirit bears. He learns that some have a pure white coat and that they exist in small numbers in the Great Bear Rainforest - not too far from his own home. But the spirit bears' habitat is under threat from deforestation, and Simon knows he must help protect these incredible animals. In school, however, Simon struggles to find his own voice. At lunchtime,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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"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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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
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"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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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"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...