https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks MULTICULTURAL en-us 2022-03-02 03:21:28 UTC 2025-11-20 21:15:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157077683 Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. ]]> 2022-04-25 17:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157077683 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157081300 It tells the story of her family who live in Frankfurt, Germany and suddenly have to go into hiding as a result of Hitler and the Nazi Party's treatment of Jews in Europe during the second world war. They escape to Amsterdam where they go into hiding with other Jews. The diary ends suddenly on 1 August 1944.]]> 2022-04-25 18:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157081300 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157084163 Fighting Words is the story of 10-year-old Della and her big sister, Suki, who escape terrible circumstances and end up in foster care. We learn that the girls' mom was incarcerated on meth-cooking charges, and that they lived for a time with her predatory boyfriend, Clifton.]]> 2022-04-25 18:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157084163 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157085824 Melody Brooks is a nearly eleven-year-old girl. Her parents have done everything they can to help her live a normal life, but life is often frustrating for Melody since she cannot speak, move, nor communicate her wishes due to cerebral palsy. As a result, Melody has to fight to get her wishes.]]> 2022-04-25 18:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157085824 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157089761 All American Boys is a young adult novel that looks at a specific instance of police brutality from the perspectives of two high school classmates: Rashad, who is savagely beaten by a local policeman who (wrongly) suspects him of shoplifting and assaulting a white woman, and Quinn, who sees the beating and initially pretends he didn't. It's a fictional reflection of real-life police encounters with young black men that ended badly.]]> 2022-04-25 18:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157089761 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157091394 Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.]]> 2022-04-25 18:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157091394 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157095548 It follows the story of Rydr, who is journeying from California to Chicago, from the grandmother who is no longer able to care for her to a relative she's never met. This is not a happy-go-lucky story, but it is one that is uplifting, encouraging, and inspirational.]]> 2022-04-25 18:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157095548 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157106484 A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country".]]> 2022-04-25 18:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157106484 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157108859 The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel; however, she did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published.]]> 2022-04-25 18:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157108859 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157110719 The novel focuses on Esperanza, the only daughter of wealthy Mexican parents, and the events that occur after her father's murder. Esperanza, her mother, and their former household servants flee to California with no money during the Great Depression, where they find agricultural work that pays very little.]]> 2022-04-25 18:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157110719 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157114449 "Chains" is the story of thirteen-year-old slave Isabel's journey to discover her inner strength and fight for her freedom amidst the depravity of slavery and the upheaval of the Revolutionary War that divided America. The novel opens on the day of Miss Mary Finch's funeral.]]> 2022-04-25 18:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157114449 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157115995  Refugee is a historical fiction novel that features 3 stories in one; Josef, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Isabel, a Cuban girl escaping Castro's regime in 1994, and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy fleeing from the conflict in Syria in 2015.]]> 2022-04-25 18:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157115995 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157121797 Wonder is a brutally powerful story of a 10-year-old boy named August Pullman, who has a facial anomaly. He is an ordinary kid who plays Xbox, is obsessed with Star Wars, but despite the 27 operations done for his face he will never look normal.]]> 2022-04-25 18:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157121797 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157126639 Code Talker is about a Navajo (Native American) who uses his language to help win the war. It is World War Two and the United States of America is fighting against Japan. Every code the Americans have used to send secret information has been cracked by the Japanese.]]> 2022-04-25 18:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157126639 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157128065 Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson. Published in 1942, it has been in print ever since.]]> 2022-04-25 18:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157128065 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157129905 Heroes of the Second World War – including political leaders, military generals, plus ordinary soldiers and civilians who resisted the Nazis]]> 2022-04-25 18:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157129905 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157131412 Jesse Owens was an American athlete. He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long jump, the 100- and 200-metre dashes, and the 4 x 100-metre relay. He was the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.]]> 2022-04-25 18:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157131412 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157133929 In this book, ten child survivors tell their stories. Paul Valent, himself a child survivor and psychiatrist, explores with profound analytical insight the deepest memories of those survivors he interviewed. Their experiences range from living in hiding to physical and sexual abuse.]]> 2022-04-25 18:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157133929 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157136552 Sandler expertly crafts a narrative that manages to explain the horror and incomprehensibility of locking up American citizens in prison camps simply because of their ethnic ancestry. ]]> 2022-04-25 18:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157136552 hinklehailey https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157141059 The One and Only Ivan is a bestselling novel about hope and friendship. It was inspired by a real silverback gorilla named Ivan who was held captive for 27 years. Narrated by Ivan himself, a beautiful story of friendship unfolds between Ivan, an elephant named Stella, and a stray dog named Bob.]]> 2022-04-25 18:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hinklehailey/Bookmarks/wish/2157141059