Books with author Michael Silverstone

Now there is a series designed especially to introduce young people to women whose heroic lives have helped to shape our world. Informative, inspiring, and engaging, the series tells of extraordinary achievements women have made throughout the world and introduces younger readers to the realities of other countries and cultures. Grades 6 and up. This unique biography series is designed to introduce young readers to the achievements of women around the world. The books tell the dramatic life stories of courageous women who have overcome adversity and discrimination to make extraordinary contributions to the global community. Each book contains contextual information about the geography, politics, and culture of its subject's homeland and introduces, on an accessible level, concepts such as the global economy, environmental preservation, and human rights. By providing role models, Women Changing the World serves as a source of inspiration for future world changers. Titles in the Series include: Aung San Suu KyiStanding Up for Democracy in BurmaPB $9.95, 1-55861-197-5HC x 19.95, 1-55861-196-7Ela BhattUniting Women in IndiaPB $9.95, 1-55861-228-9HC x $19.95, 1-55861-229-7Mairead Corrigan and Betty WilliamsMaking Peace in Northern IrelandPB $9.95, 1-55861-201-7HC x $19.95, 1-55861-200-9Mamphela RampheleChallenging Apartheid in South AfricaPB $9.95, 1-55861-226-2HC x $19.95, 1-55861-227-0Rigoberta MenchuDefending Human Rights in GuatemalaPB $9.95, 1-55861-199-1HC x $19.95, 1-55861-198-3

Overcoming discouragement from white teachers and classmates, Winona LaDuke became outspoken at an early age about the disproportionate difficulties faced by Native Americans, including massive pollution of reservations.Winning acceptance to Harvard, Winona pursued environmental research and activism, becoming the youngest person to address the United Nations, and at age twenty-nine winning the Reebok Human Rights Award. At home at White Earth reservation in Minnesota, Winona founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project, fighting poverty and pollution by reclaiming treaty lands.Winona’s remarkable vision was recognized by the Green Party, which chose her as their vice-presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. Her achievements show young readers the positive impact of one person’s determination to change her world.Michael Silverstone is an elementary school teacher and author of Rigoberta Menchú, among other biographies for children.

This tireless fighter's vision of justice catches the imagination, showing young readers the positive impact of one person's determination to change her world.When Winona LaDuke's parents brought her from LA to White Earth reservation in Minnesota to experience powwows and to see her grandparents' home, she began to understand who she was. Winona became outspoken at an early age about the disproportionate difficulties faced by Native Americans, including large-scale pollution of reservation lands. At seventeen, she became the youngest person ever to speak before the United Nations. At Harvard University Winona studied the destruction caused by unsound development. Later she received the Reebok Human Rights Award and used the money to found the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP). WELRP built sustainable, traditional livelihoods, while establishing reservation schools and education in the Anishinaabeg language.

Rigoberta Menchú was born into a remote and impoverished corner of Guatemala where her people, the Quiche-Mayan, suffered as second-class citizens and where few children, particularly girls, went to school. Working as a coffee-picker and later as a maid, she educated herself and learned Spanish, the language of her oppressors, in order to lead her people in a fight for their land and their rights. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998.

Book 1- 6.2.1 Crossfire- Roger Anderson (whose name is an alias) is an average (Jewish) teenager who lives a typical (at times boring) life and at times faces bullies in high school. He wishes for adventure and excitement; he soon get’s what he wishes later after he runs into a criminal and accidently switches phones with him. Roger and his two friends soon get involved in a dangerous situation and get kidnapped by a gang of criminals while on an outing. They are able to escape from a warehouse they are imprisoned in and escape from the criminals on the East River. Neil Anderson (codename Crossfire) , the unique FBI agent at times goes out on dangerous missions and his new assignment is one of the dangerous ones. He, the chief and FBI are continuing the search for Orlando and his men (who escaped prison 10 years ago). Orlando is one of the biggest and most dangerous members of a mafia and runs a smuggling operation across the globe. Neil’s case involves eavesdropping, chases, fighting and a terrorist attack. Later on in Mystic he almost get’s drowned forcefully when on a freighter across the Atlantic! Roger and his friends return to eavesdrop on the gang at the warehouse, armed with spy gadgets and his father’s special spy craft But they soon again get kidnapped, break out and escape from the men. But this time Roger’s girlfriend get’s abducted! Roger soon learns what his father is up against and he is soon offered something special and unique by no other than the chief of the FBI!