Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice by Veronica Chambers, Tracy Turnbull
Published by HarperCollins on September 25th 2018
ISBN: 0062796259
Pages: 224
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Resist – 35 Profiles of Ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice, is a collection of short biographies of various people who fought for what they believed in. Each story/bio is only a few pages long, includes a quote from them at the beginning of the chapter and ends with a “#Resist Lesson” that sums up one aspect of this famous person’s resistance that kids can take away from it. The bios are fairly diverse, including Sojourner Truth, Emiliano Zapata, Sitting Bull, Malala Yousafzai, Mohandas Gandhi, Hedy Lamarr, and many more. The book begins with a great foreword by Senator Cory Booker and an afterword by one of the survivors of the Parkland school shooting. The only negative about this book is that because the bios are so short, they tend to gloss over many aspects of each person’s history. This is a good addition to a middle grade biography section.

Reviewed by Kate Radke, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook