![]() ![]() First Lady of the United States of America Eleanor Roosevelt was a major contributor to the development of the final draft of the UDHR. ESP is grateful for Rotarians for Peace in Wilmington, Ohio, for being the first to distribute pocketbooks to first year students participating in the Westheimer Peace Symposium, Wilmington College, and East Clinton High School 9th graders. ESP invites its colleagues in the UNGC, as well as civil society organizations like Rotary and Lions, to partner with its Human Rights Pocketbook Venture to distribute a personal copy of the pocketbook with every 9th grader and incoming college freshman every year. The Human Rights Pocketbook Venture is a positive peace initiative of the Empathy Surplus Project (ESP), a UN Global Compact (UNGC) participant since 2014. (Pocket size paper pamphlet) 9781642551532 Link to contents - The Human Rights Pocketbook Venture The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), in its 2019 Global Peace Index, which ranks nation states in order of their peacefulness, ranks the United States of America in the bottom quarter of peaceful nation states. And she's determined to let everyone know it.somehow.Ĭlick on the book to order. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. ![]() Most people-her teachers, her doctors, her classmates-dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can't tell them otherwise. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. ![]() But she also has a photographic memory she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. Uplifting.This moving novel will makes activists of us all.- Booklist (starred review)įrom multiple award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a story that will forever change how we all look at anyone with a disability, perfect for fans of RJ Palacio's Wonder.Įleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. Unflinching and realistic.- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) It speaks volumes.- School Library Journal (starred review) If there's one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it.- Denver PostĪ gutsy, candid, and compelling story. Out of My Mind spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list Over 1.5 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Out of My Mind and discovered the brilliant mind of Melody Brooks. ![]()
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