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Ellie writes and doodles in a journal about her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

Spending the summer in Florida with her stepfather's sister who operates a "meals-on-wheels" van, twelve-year-old Chlo???? and her aunt become involved in a controversy surrounding the wearing of T-back bathing suits.

Discusses the interrelation of art, sociology, and politics between 1965 and 1972, covering liberation movements, political activism, protests, and demonstrations, featuring the efforts of musicians such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and Fela Kuti.

Explores how folk singer and song writer Pete Seeger used his musical talents to improve conditions for those less fortunate and discusses how folk music has been used in protest movements throughout the twentieth century.

Examines The Tea Pary movement and presents a diverse selection of primary sources representing all sides of the debate in question.

Lucy Moon fights injustice whenever she gets the chance, and when her classmates are arrested for sledding on Wiggins Hill, she takes the opportunity to speak her mind against the charges.

With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsiders, so when he meets Uma he is quickly drawn into her circle of the poor and disenfranchised.

It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.

Examines the various ways people have chosen to protest in countries throughout the world, focusing on political protest, and suggesting effective ways young people can use protest to bring about changes in their government and communities.

Presents articles and essays with opposing viewpoints on matters concerning the Arab Spring of 2010, such as whether or not the U.

Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.

Discusses the "Arab Spring", a series of uprisings in Arab countries due to the beginnings of democracy.

Presents an updated examination of the 2010-2011 Arab uprisings in a question-and-answer format.

In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity.