American Labor Day

Supporting Rio teachers with resources for monthly celebrations

1st Monday

American Labor Day

Children Books

  • My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña

  • Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights by Deborah Hopkinson and Kristy Caldwell

  • Night Job by Karen Hesses and G. Brian Karas

  • Night Job by Karen Hesses and G. Brian Karas

  • Night Job by Karen Hesses and G. Brian Karas

  • Side By Side: The Story of Dolores Huerta and César Chavez by Monica Brown and Joe Cepeda

  • Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie

  • Brave Girl by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet

  • Joelito’s Big Decision/La gran decisión de Joelito by Ann Berlak and Daniel Camacho

  • Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

  • ¡Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike In L.A. by Diana Cohn and Francisco Delgado

  • On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children’s Rights by Monica Kulling and Felicita Sala

  • Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song by George Ella Lyon and Christopher Cardinale

  • Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff and William Low

  • Front Desk by Kelly Yang

  • Rescue on the Outer Banks by Candice F. Ransom and Karen Ritz

  • Dolores Huerta: Get to Know the Voice of Migrant Workers by Robert Liu-Trujillo

  • Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson

  • Who Was César Chávez? by Dana Meachan Rau

  • A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

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