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Our searchable library of short texts offers a diverse mix of stories and perspectives. This multigenre, multimedia collection aligns with the Common Core's recommendations for text complexity and the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards.

Choose from informational and literary nonfiction texts, literature, photographs, political cartoons, interviews, infographics and more. You can also filter by text type, grade level, subject and topic.

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Manzanar, 1942

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 Japanese Americans, mostly U.S. citizens, were incarcerated in “War Relocation Camps.” These photographs were taken at Manzanar, one of the ten Japanese internment camps, in 1942.
by
Clem Albers and Francis Stewart
Grade Level
Subject
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
September 3, 2015
Visual

Iesha Evans

Protesting the death of Alton Sterling and the Baton Rough Police Department’s request for Black Lives Matter demonstrators to clear roadways, Iesha Evans stands in the middle of a street as two Louisiana state troopers, dressed in riot gear, approach to arrest her.
by
Jonathan Bachman
Grade Level
Subject
Civics
History
Social Justice Domain
January 30, 2017
Informational

Inspections

Medical and legal inspections were the first of many tests immigrants would have to pass on their arduous journey to establish lives in the United States.
by
Gwenyth Swain
Grade Level
3-5
Topic
Subject
Civics
History
Geography
Social Justice Domain
July 7, 2014
Literature

Rose Blanche

During World War II, a young German girl, Rose Blanche, inadvertently discovers a concentration camp not far from her town. She travels there frequently, taking food to the children on the other side of the barbed wire and meets a haunted fate the day she discovers the camp is gone.
by
Roberto Innocenti and Christophe Gallaz
Grade Level
3-5
Topic
Subject
Civics
History
Geography
Social Justice Domain
July 2, 2014