Susan Kuklin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Documents the stories of five refugees resettled in Nebraska, including a translator from Afghanistan and a Yazidi woman from Iraq, and others from Myanmar, South Sudan, and Burundi, detailing why they had to leave their homelands, their struggles to reach the United States, and their new lives in America.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
8) Families
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Children from diverse families share thoughts about their families and photographs.
10) Mine for a year
Author
Pub. Date
©1984
Description
Text and illustrations describe a foster child's year spent socializing a puppy destined to be trained as a dog guide for a blind person.
12) Fighting Fires
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and photographs present the vehicles, equipment, and procedures used by fire fighters.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.