Category Archives: Human Rights Issues

“A Northern Light”

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly The Gillette murder case: In 1906, Grace Brown was a worker in the Gillette Skirt Factory (New York State) and was murdered because Chester Gillette, nephew of the owner, didn’t want to marry her … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Problems, Fiction, Historical Fiction/Historical Element, Human Rights Issues, Young Adult Literature | Tagged Adirondack Mountains, An American Tragedy, Chester Gillette, feminism, Gillette murder, murder, New York, women's rights | Leave a comment

“Ready Player One”

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline It’s 2044 and the world is such a rotten place for most people that they spend as much time as possible on the OASIS, a virtual universe where you can not only play video … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure Stories, Fable/Fairy Tale/Fantasy, Family Problems, Fiction, Historical Fiction/Historical Element, Human Rights Issues, Over 375 pages, Sci-Fi/Futuristic | Tagged 1980s, computer games, computer gaming | 3 Comments

“Legend”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Legend by Marie Lu The moment that Day, street rebel against the Republic, saves June, a young and brilliant soldier of the Republic, from an illegal Skiz fight, we know the two are destined to walk the same path. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure Stories, Fiction, Human Rights Issues, Literary Read Alike, Romance, Sci-Fi/Futuristic, Young Adult Literature | Tagged Hunger Games readalike, Los Angeles | Leave a comment

“The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie and a World Transformed”

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

This week–February 8, 9, 10, and 11–the Colony High School Theater Arts Department is producing the play The Laramie Project. After seeing this powerful production, students who want to learn more about Matthew Shepard should consider reading The Meaning of … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography/Memoir, Controversial Issue/Debate, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction | Tagged bullying, gay rights, Matthew Shepard, murder | Leave a comment

“Divergent”

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Divergent by Veronica Roth “Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure Stories, Controversial Issue/Debate, Family Problems, Fiction, Human Rights Issues, Literary Read Alike, Mature Readers, Over 375 pages, Sci-Fi/Futuristic, Young Adult Literature | Tagged Hunger Games readalike | 2 Comments

“Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock”

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick When young and learning about desegregation in the South, for me, one photograph stood as the example of the deep southern racial divide. It portrays all the hatred of … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography/Memoir, Controversial Issue/Debate, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction | Tagged desegregation, Elizabeth Eckford, Hazel Bryan, Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock Nine | 1 Comment

More than just memoir: Deeper thinking about the Holocaust “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness” and “Man’s Search for Meaning”

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? Withe responses by Robert Coles, The Dalai Lama, … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography/Memoir, Controversial Issue/Debate, Faith-Based/Religious Element, Fiction, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction, Short Stories | Tagged forgiveness, Holocaust literature, logotherapy | Leave a comment

“My Life with the Lincolns”

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

My Life with the Lincolns by Gayle Brandeis Mina Edelman thinks that her family—her parents and the three girls—are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her dad, whose initials are ABE, has gotten involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the summer of … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Problems, Fiction, Hi-Low/Quick Read, Historical Fiction/Historical Element, Human Rights Issues, Young Adult Literature | Tagged 1960s, Abraham Lincoln, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Gayle Brandeis, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary Todd Lincoln | Leave a comment

“Crossed”

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Victoria Waddle

Crossed by Ally Condie (second book in the Matched series) “I think of all the things he can do—write, carve, paint—and suddenly, watching him stand in the dark at the edge of the empty settlement, something powerful washes over me. … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure Stories, Fiction, Human Rights Issues, Literary Read Alike, Romance, Sci-Fi/Futuristic, Young Adult Literature | Tagged Ally Condie, Hunger Games readalike, Matched series | Leave a comment

“Start Something that Matters”

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Victoria Waddle

Start Something that Matters by Blake Mycoskie A perfect book for Thanksgiving. “Many of life’s failures are people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison “Success is the ability to go from … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmental Issues, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction | Tagged Blake Mycoskie, business startup, TOMS shoes | Leave a comment