L2L Justice 2025

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Accountable

by Dashka Slater

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Then a few other kids found out about the account, and pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery: not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults―educators and parents―whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing, and everyone was left wondering: What does it mean to be held accountable for harm that takes place behind a screen?

Areas of Interest

• Sociology Students
• Those interested in law
• Media Studies

Apple

by Eric Gansworth

Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of an Onondaga family living among Tuscaroras, and of Native people in America, including the damaging legacy of government boarding schools—and in doing so grapples with the slur common in Native communities, for someone “red on the outside, white on the inside,” and reclaims it.

Areas of Interest

• Literature Students
• Music and Visual Art Students

The Berry Pickers

by Amanda Petes

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

Areas of Interest

• Social Studies Scholars
• Students who like solving mysteries

One Last Shot

by Kip Wilson

From critically acclaimed author Kip Wilson comes this gripping coming of age historical fiction novel in verse about Gerda Taro, a vibrant, headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat.

Areas of Interest

• History Students
• Global Scholars
• Photography Students

Where I Belong

by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Guatemalan American high school senior Millie Vargas and her family are placed in the center of the immigration debate in Texas after Mr. Wheeler, her mother’s employer and a senatorial candidate, mentions Millie’s achievements during his campaign.

Areas of Interest

• Sociology Scholars
• Students interested in Law
• Students interested in service immersion experiences
• Biology Students

A Greater Goal

by Elizabeth Rausch

Elizabeth Rusch’s A Greater Goal chronicles how members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team fought to receive fair treatment and equal pay despite the intense pushback they received from U.S. Soccer, the governing body of soccer in the United States. With a narrative that includes player profiles and vignettes framed from team member perspectives, A Greater Goal illuminates the work, support, and grit needed to be treated with equality in a world that often undervalues the contributions of women.

Areas of Interest

• Athletes
• Students interested in Law
• Students interested in labor practices

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Areas of Interest

• Social Justice Scholars
• Sociology Students

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

Areas of Interest

• History Students
• Humanities Scholars

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy tells the story of Equal Justice Initiative, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice.

Areas of Interest

• Social Studies Students
• Students interested in law

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hoseini

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

Areas of Interest

• Global Scholars
• History Students
• Humanities Scholars

Where You See Yourself

By Claire Forrest

As Effie navigates her way through a year of admissions visits, senior class traditions, internal and external ableism, and a lot of firsts--and lasts--she starts to learn that sometimes growing up means being open to a world of possibilities you never even dreamed of.

Areas of Interest

• Social Studies Students
• Those interested in media studies

Travelers Along the Way

by Aminah Mae Safi

A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in this thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of Robin Hood.

Areas of Interest

• Global Studies Scholars
• History Students

We Are Not Strangers

by Josh Tuininga

Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japanese neighbors while they are incarcerated during World War II.

Areas of Interest

• Global Scholars
• Religious Scholars

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• Learn to Love Program Details

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Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

Areas of Interest

• HSHP Students
• Students interested in science and technology

Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings

Edited by Robert Ellsberg

Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, has recently been proposed for canonization. Through her houses of hospitality, the practice of the works of mercy, and her prophetic work for peace and justice, she offered a radical witness to the gospel in action. But it was as much in her everyday life as in her public activities that she expressed her spirituality and found her path to holiness.

Areas of Interest

• Religious Scholars
• Students interested in service