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