![]() ![]() ![]() We close out our list of the best nonfiction books for teens with Yes She Can. Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White Houses edited by Molly Dillon How to read it: Purchase From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry on Amazon Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done by Andrea Gonzalez and Sophie Houser From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is the book we always needed to explore this horrific crime and its outcome. In From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, Paula Yoo transports readers back in time to the tinder box relations with Asian Americans and bigoted White Americans and then traces the legacy of the murder, which helped spark the Asian American movement and led to the first federal civil rights case involving a crime against an Asian American. During the 1980s, many car manufacturers were relocated to Japan, heightening tensions between Asian Americans and White Americans in Detroit. This YALSA nonfiction award nominee and National Book Award long list book turns the spotlight on the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American, by two men in a hate crime in Detroit. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the The Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo ![]()
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