Social+Issues

Chang, Ina. A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War. Lodestar, 1991. Documented survey of women's many roles in this bloody conflict. (MJ)

Hoose, Phillip //It's Our World, Too!: Young People Who Are Making a Difference//. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. The book shares real experience of teens who are making a difference and standing up for what they believe to be right. - (SW)

Marrin, Albert. //Black Gold: the story of Oil in Our Lives.// Random House Children's Books, 2012. Discusses how oil is a necessary evil to American and the rest of the modern world. (AF)

Stone, Tanya Lee. //The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: a Doll's History and Her Impact on Us.// Viking, 2010. A look at Mattel's number one doll, the controversies surrounding it, and her impact on society. (AF)

Wolf, Bernard. HIV Positive. Dutton, 1997. Ages 11-18. A single mother with AIDS. (MJ)