Recommended Books

Book Review: The Personal Librarian (+ bonus recommendations!)

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland

Book Review: Push

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague

We often think of the fight for literacy taking place in the halls of government or with human rights activists. Author Sapphire takes the fight for literacy into the boxing ring of real life. The main character, Precious Jones, is a sixteen-year-old girl living in a house of domestic and sexual abuse. She is...

Book Review: Drawn Across Borders – True Stories of Human Migration

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland

This April, the Ed Team has also been inspired by the Kate Greenway (Carnegie sister award for illustration) shortlist and SDG Target 4.7, Global Citizenship. We recommend reading Drawn Across Borders, True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler. Every high school library should have this book to teach students about human rights, human...

Book Review: The Crossing

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland 

This April, the Ed Team has been inspired by the Carnegie Medal shortlist and SDG Target 4.7, Global Citizenship. We recommend reading The Crossing by Manjeet Mann.* Every high school library should have this book to teach students about human rights and promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence. The book tells the...

Book Review: Call Us What We Carry

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland 

March is Poetry Month, and the Ed Team encourages you to read some poems this month! In particular, we recommend the poems of  presidential inaugural poet and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman in her book Call Us What We Carry. Ms. Gorman’s book is especially relevant this month because the Ed Team is focusing on...

Book Review: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Hollie Nielsen, AWCC Scotland

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools provides interesting but troubling reading. Author Monique W. Morris describes, often in narratives that individualize the problem, how Black girls’ behavior in middle and high schools is crimininalized, pushing the girls out of school. This pushing out makes it difficult for the girls to obtain the quality education...