Anti-Racism Reads
Stories to Share with Families and Young Readers | Topics for Teen and Young Adult Readers | Learning about Race for Adult Readers
Stories to Share with Families and Young Readers
Titles for Pre-K – Kindergarden
The Day You Begin, Jacqueline Woodson (e-book and e-audiobook)
My Hair is a Garden, Cozbi A. Cabrera (e-book)
All are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold
Love, Matt de la Peña
A is for Activist, Innosanto Nagara
I Am Enough, Grace Byers
Hair Love, Matthew A. Cherry
Mixed Me!, Taye Diggs
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration, Samara Cole Doyon
M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child, Tiffany Rose
Happy in Our Skin, Fran Manushkin
Hands Up!, Breanna J. McDaniel
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family, Ibtihaj Muhammad
Looking Like Me, Walter Dean Myers
Sulwe, Lupita Nyong’o, Lupita
Shades of Black: A Celebration of our Children, Sandra L. Pinkney
The Breaking News, Sarah Lynne Reul
What’s Special About Me, Mama?, Kristina Evans
Bilal Cooks Daal, Aisha Saeed
In Your Hands, Carole Boston Weatherford
Dreamers, Yuyi Morales
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, Anastasia Higginbotham
Hey Black Child, Useni Eugene Perkins
Titles for 2nd-4th Grade
Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Let the Children March, Monica Clark-Robinson
Let’s Talk About Race, Julius Lester
The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander
(e-book)
Racism and Intolerance, Louise Spilsbury
On the Playground: Our First Talk About Prejudice, Jillian Roberts
Black Girl Magic: A Poem, Mahogany L. Browne
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family, Ibtihaj Muhammad
New Kid, Jerry Craft
My Name is Maria Isabel, Alma Flor Ada
The Year of the Book, Andrea Cheng
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, Nikki Grimes
Home Court, Amar Stoudemire
Don’t Call Me Grandma, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All, Chelsea Johnson
Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America, Deborah Diesen
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice, Mahogany L. Browne
Momma, Did You Hear the News?, Sanya Whittaker Gragg
Titles for 4-6th Grade
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander
Ghost, Jason Reynolds
Count Me In, Varsha Bajaj
Blended, Sharon M. Draper
The Parker Inheritance, Varian Johnson
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
My Year in the Middle, Lila Quintero Weaver
One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
Love Like Sky, Leslie C. Youngblood
#IAmAWitness: Confronting Bullying, Jessica Rusick
For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama Lockington
Prairie Lotus, Linda Sue Park
Black Brother, Black Brother, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Operation Frog Effect, Sarah Lynn Scheerger
Just South of Home, Karen Strong
Let’s Talk About Race, Julius Lester
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice, Mahogany L. Browne
The Fierce 44: Black Americans who Shook Up the World, Robert Ball (e-book and e-audiobook)
New Kid, Jerry Craft
Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Lives Matter, Duchess Harris
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, Wade Hudson
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, Andrea Davis Pinkney
You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World, Caroline Paul
Follow Chester!: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History, Gloria Respress-Churchwell
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of The Cultural Revolution, Ji-li Jiang
Hector: A Boy, A Protest, and The Photograph That Changed Apartheid, Adrienne Wright
Topics for Teen and Young Adult Readers
Modern Racial Injustice (Fiction)
Tyler Johnson Was Here, Jay Coles
eBook
Audiobook
Light It Up, Kekla Magoon
eBook
I Am Alfonso Jones, Tony Medina
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight, Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
eBook
A Good Kind of Trouble, Lisa Marie Ramee
eBook
CD Audio
Playaway
All American Boys, Jason Reynolds
eBook
Audiobook
Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
eBook
Audiobook
Playaway
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
eBook
Audiobook
CD Audio
Playaway
Piecing Me Together, Renée Watson
eBook
Modern Racial Injustice (Nonfiction)
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice, Bryan Stevenson (eBook)
Audiobook
This Book is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds
eBook
Audiobook
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
eBook
One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters are Treated Equally, Carol Anderson
Say Her Name, Zetta Elliot
Racism in History
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, Claire Hartfield
eBook
Audiobook
March, Book One, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
eBook
March, Book Two, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
eBook
March, Book Three, John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
eBook
The Silence of our Friends: The Civil Rights Struggle was Never Black and White, Mark Long and Jim Demonakos
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives, Kenneth C. Davis
Audiobook
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment, Larry Dane Brimmer
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case, Patricia Hruby Powell
eBook
Audiobook
Dreamland Burning, Jennifer Latham
eBook
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights, Lawrence Goldstone
eBook
Race and Policing, Duchess Harris and Rebecca Rissman
Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice, Lawrence Goldstone
The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power, Ann Bausum
Race: A History Beyond Black and White, Marc Aronson
Fire in the Streets, Kekla Magoon
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961, Larry Dane Brimner
They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott
eBook
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington, Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long
Exposing Hate: Prejudice, Hatred, and Violence in Action, Michael Miller
Protesting and Activism (Nonfiction)
Steal This Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing Almost Everything, Alexandra Styron
Audiobook
How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation, edited by Maureen Johnson
eBook
Audiobook
Be the Change: The Future is in Your Hands, Eunice Moyle and Sabrina Moyle
eBook
Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration, edited by Rose Brock
Audiobook
Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage, foreword by Senator Amy Klobuchar
Audiobook
Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters, Laurie Ann Thompson
Yes You Can!: Your Guide to Becoming an Activist, Jane Drake and Ann Love
In Good Hands: Remarkable Female Politicians from Around the World Who Showed Up, Spoke Out and Made Change, Stephanie Mackendrick
Raise Your Voice: 12 Protests that Shaped America, Jeffrey Kluger
Putting Peace First: 7 Commitments to Change the World, Eric David Dawson
Girl Rising, Tanya Lee Stone
eBook
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World, Todd Hasek-Lowy
Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protests, Marke Bieschke
Protesting and Activism (Fiction)
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, edited by Bethany C. Morrow
Yes No Maybe So, Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed
eBook
Audiobook
Playaway
He Said, She Said, Kwame Alexander
eBook
The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi
eBook
Wide Awake, David Levithan
We Didn’t Ask for This, Adi Alsaid
eBook
The Nowhere Girls, Amy Reed
eBook
Watch Us Rise, Renée Watson
eBook
Moxie, Jennifer Mathieu
The Difference Between You and Me, Madeleine George
Americus, M. K. Reed
Hearts Unbroken, Cynthia Leitich Smith
eBook
Suggested Reading, Dave Connis
eBook
Audiobook
White Rose, Kip Wilson
eBook
10 Things I Hate About Pinky, Sandhya Menon
On order
Learning about Race for Adult Readers
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin J. DiAngelo
(audiobook)
How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Mira Jacob
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Men We Reaped: A Memoir, Jesmyn Ward
How To Be Black, Baratunde Thurston
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall