Social Justice For Children

An empowering, timely guide to raising anti-racist, compassionate, and socially conscious children, from a diversity and inclusion educator with more than thirty years of experience. As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role...

An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma...

An evidence-based, social justice–minded exploration of modern parenting, from an award-winning science journalist and cofounder of SciMoms How can we raise happy, well-adjusted kids today amid so much injustice and uncertainty? This is the question at the heart of the progressive parent’s...

From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women at the heart of Latine families. “This love letter to intergenerational relationships opens every window and door to one’s heart... A healing work of art.” —Yesika Salgado, author of...

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an essential manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma. “An extraordinary book ...Beautiful, profound, and important.” —New York Times The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but...

In Pro-Child Politics, Katy Faust has mobilized a collection of experts who apply her children-before-adults approach to their areas of expertise. From porn to debt, foreign policy to religious liberty, each chapter explains how a child-first approach isn’t just nice—it’s a necessity. Contributors explain how the needs of children are being ignored and propose practical, bold reforms that will ensure the next generation will not only survive, but thrive.

An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system “A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse...

On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.

Breeanna's life was marked by homelessness, addiction, and survival on the streets of Georgetown. Living in a deteriorating motorhome and caught in a volatile relationship with her boyfriend, Anthony, she faced overwhelming challenges. When she became pregnant, she knew she couldn’t care for her child. Desperate for support, she turned to her father, who entrusted the baby to compassionate family friends—a devoted couple determined to provide the love and stability the infant needed to recover from opioid withdrawal. But their efforts were upended when Anthony emerged from jail, ...

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! Adapted from Clint Smith's #1 New York Times bestselling and universally acclaimed How the Word Is Passed,this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation's past and...

For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting...

In this 15th book about the irrepressible Sammy Keyes, she deals with the zaniest character to come out of her town yet - Justice Jack, Santa Martina's very own superhero. Dressed in spandex and a mask, he drives around on a dirt bike hoping to fight crime. Though everyone else seems taken with Jack, Sammy's not so sure and now that she has a real mystery to solve her detective skills are pushed to the limits by Jack's antics.

What happens when innocence is forced to grow up at gunpoint? The Boy with a Rifle is a haunting, deeply human story that confronts the brutal collision between childhood and violence. Through lyrical yet unflinching prose, the book follows a young boy pushed into a world he never chose—where fear replaces play, obedience replaces dreams, and survival becomes a daily act of courage. This is not just a story about war or weapons. It is a story about lost childhoods, moral awakening, resilience, and the quiet rebellion of the human spirit. The rifle becomes more than an object—it is a ...

Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on their most delicious—and revolutionary—adventure yet! When silly toys spring to life on their front steps, these three young friends are whisked away to a magical kingdom where chocolate flows like rivers and simple toys have been banned. In the Kingdom of Confection and Chaos, the tyrannical Toy King has outlawed rubber chickens, whoopee cushions, and other "silly" toys, forcing everyone to buy only expensive, branded products. He's also banned the ancient tradition of dipping everything in chocolate and erased the memory of a historic protest that won ...

They thought no one saw. Heaven did. For generations, the shadows of the earth have concealed a horrifying truth: the global trade of children, stolen innocence sold for profit, silence bought with blood. Trade of God’s Children is not just a book, it is a divine reckoning. In this soul-piercing exposé, author Ember Phoenix unveils the harrowing depths of human trafficking through the eyes of Heaven. With righteous fury and spiritual insight, she exposes the networks hidden behind polished institutions, the silent cries that echo in every dark corridor, and the cosmic justice that is now...

In 13-Foot Coffins, Breakaway Outreach founder Jimmy Larche chronicles God’s redemptive fingerprints through abandonment, abuse, and fatherlessness. Like the ancient Roman gladiators, we don’t get to choose the arenas we fight in, but we do get to choose how we will fight, and to what honor we will uphold. Pain, suffering, and injustice are often the catalysts that God uses to birth champions of His Cause. Born to a teenage mother, Jimmy spent most of his childhood years fatherless. But he went from one extreme to the other when his biological father remarried his mother and began a ...

"She had it all... new cars, jewelry, travel, nice condos -- though, sometimes, beatings, rape and ’so much horror’ came with the price. ‘I wanted to let these girls know that there are options...That if grandma can do it, they can too'." - Carla Herreria Russo, HUFFPOST Mary's childhood was shattered by her mother's suicide when she was only 13 years old. As a teen, she was the victim of a horrific sexual assault which left her a perfect target for a tall, dark, strong, and charming man who promised to protect and love her... in the nearby big bright city full of promise, the Big ...

Taking a stand and being an activist means having the courage to speak up for an important cause. For football player Colin Kaepernick and basketball great LeBron James, fighting for social justice is their top priority. Learn how they and other players use their platform as celebrity athletes to bring attention and change to the cause of social justice.

Perfect for fans of We Are Not From Here, this searing novel introduces Teódulo, an unaccompanied minor providing a rare male perspective on immigration, as he flees from murdering coyotes, only to become ensnared by human traffickers. After smugglers execute his father, Teódulo escapes and embarks on a harrowing journey to the United States alone. At the border, violent cartel members capture him and force him into brutal labor at a meat processing plant. Everyone pays to cross—one way or another. Freedom is not free. He doesn’t speak English. He doesn’t even know where he is. His ...

Parents who have enrolled their children in a Montessori school deserve to know that Montessori organizations are turning political by promoting the social justice movement. Social justice is the antithesis of the Montessori Method, which recognizes that each child is an individual with his own self-created character. Social justice has its roots in Marxism, viewing people as members of either oppressed or oppressive groups with innate characteristics. There are Montessori schools pushing queer pedagogy, drag pedagogy, gender transition, restorative justice, revisionist history, and fake ...