Books like Black ants and buddhists by Mary Cowhey

In Camp Green Lake, a boy named Stanley Yelnats must dig endless holes for a supposedly reformatory camp that really hides a buried truth.

Mexican farm workers must adjust to life in California during the Great Depression.

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

A true account of William Kamkwamba, a Malawian boy who, against famine, drought and poverty, builds a working windmill from scrap to bring electricity and water to his village.

When the Taliban seize Kabul, 11‑year‑old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner and survive the harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Teenage slave Isabel navigates the American Revolution in New York, using her wit and the help of a Patriot spy to fight for her and her sister’s freedom.

Fifteen‑year‑old Lucky Linderman grapples with family conflict and a bully while dreaming of his missing Vietnam‑war grandfather; a trip to Arizona with his aunt, uncle, and neighbor Ginny opens a new path to confidence.

Suja Gidla’s memoir chronicles her untouchable family's rise from poverty to education, highlighting her mother’s fight against caste oppression and her uncle’s journey from Communist activist to renowned poet, offering a bottom‑up view of modern India.

This is the first comprehensive study of socially and politically engaged Buddhism in the lands of its origin. Nine accounts of contemporary movements in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan are framed by interpretive essays. The historical development and institutional forms of engaged Buddhism are considered in the light of traditional Buddhist conceptions of morality, interdependence, and liberation; and Western ideas of freedom, human rights, and democracy. Engaged Buddhism presents ordained and lay Buddhist activists like Thich Nhat Hanh of Vietnam, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand, A. T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement of Sri Lanka, Daisaku Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai movement of Japan, followers of the Indian Untouchable leader, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and Buddhist women throughout Asia. These leaders have campaigned relentlessly, attracted and organized millions of new converts, faced death threats, landed in jail, founded schools and universities, and produced a massive new Buddhist literature to restore social and economic justice to their societies.

Multicultural Education offers educators up-to-date articles, theories, and research to navigate culturally, racially, and language-diverse classrooms, including a chapter on LGBTQ issues.