Social Studies Book From The Late 1980s

[ramonarjona4]

I am looking for a soft-cover social studies book that my school purchased for everyone in the class sometime around 1987. The book was aimed for 6th or 7th graders.

It was a short book that we were instructed to put in our cubby and not take out again until we were instructed. The 7th grade teacher was very emphatic about this. So emphatic was the teacher that we should not read the book that I took my copy out and read it cover to cover at my first opportunity.

It covered a bunch of political and social justice concepts that I had not encountered in school before.

The book had a chapter that defined political points of view along a spectrum from "reactionary" to "radical". It also had a section in which a fictionalized ethnic group called the Duda were lobbying for women's rights.

EDIT: This was in the United States, at a private school in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Any suggestion on what the title of the book might be are appreciated.

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

1. Afraid I can’t help you, but what country was this? That might help narrow the search.

2. I get the impression that the teacher’s vehement insistence that you not peek ahead was intended to encourage you to do precisely that—particularly if you were the sort of kid already given to reading ahead of the curriculum.

[rissabby]

Could you narrow it down a bit more? What city, state, school district etc.
My son was in 5th grade in 1987. He might know it if it was in Portland, Oregon.

[calzephyr]

It's a longshot, but you can always contact your old teacher or the school, or perhaps make a general post in a Hawaii community Facebook group to see if anyone else remembers the book :-)