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WE ARE NOT FREE

by Traci Chee

Fourteen teens whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
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THREE COMRADES

by Erich Maria Remarque

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them.

From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
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eMORTAL

by Steve Schafer

She made him. He's just code. She's almost sure.

 

. . . But what if he's real?

 
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THE POET X

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and in a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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A MOUSE NAMED MIIKA
Short Stories for English Language Learners
by Matt Haig

A funny and fantastical story of a determined mouse on a mission; an epic adventure story on a miniature scale; a tale of mice and men (and more mice); and the lesson that, with cheese, as with life, what matters most is not how strongly you smell, but how strong you are on the inside.

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1984
by George Orwell

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by Aldous Huxley

The Lost Cause
by Cory Doctorow

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

 "Then the King will say - 'Come, you who are blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'" 

"Then he will say - 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'   
 
[ -Matthew 25: verses 34 and 41 ]

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by Cory Doctorow

It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis

Alone in Berlin
by Hans Fallada

White Rose
by Kip Wilson
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