Books About Race, Racism and Resistance for Children and TeensLike this list

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• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Teen: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning.

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Teen: The repercussions of racial violence and injustice seen through the eyes of two teens, the victim and a witness. One black, one white and the struggle to not only understand but how do you deal with situation from the inside and outside of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something Happened in Our Town

  a Child's Story About Racial Injustice

  Celano, Marianne,

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  Children's Picture Book: An aid to open discussion and address racism and sticking up for those who are different with children.

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

  Medina, Tony,

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  Children's Picture Book: Featuring beautiful illustrations and Tanka poems detailing that there is more to black boys than the color of their skin.

• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

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  Children: Middle Grade: What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists.

• Black Enough

  Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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  Teen: A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.

• Woke

  a Young Poet's Call to Justice

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  Teen: A deep look into a teen dealing with racial profiling, finding her voice and learning to speak up for herself, her friend and her community after her friend was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop while she was with him.

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Teen: A look at the reality of a teen being racially profiled and trying to understand the why's of what he goes through and discusses issues of family, friends, racial profiling, gangs, incarceration, police brutality, education.

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Teen: A graphic novel detailing of Congressman John Lewis' life from his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book Two

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Teen: The continuing story of Congressman John Lewis during the Civil Rights Movement as he and his fellow Freedom Riders faced beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book Three

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  Teen: The Continuing story of Congressman John Lewis as a young man working as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How It Went Down

  Magoon, Kekla,

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  Teen: Told from the viewpoints of 17 different narrators, the story of "How it Went Down" when Tariq Brown, a black teen is killed by the white Jack Franklin and the changing story depending on each narrator's point of view.

• Ruth and the Green Book

  Ramsey, Calvin A

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  Children's Picture Book: Ruth and her black family travel by car from Chicago to Alabama by car in the late 1940s encountering prejudice, but also discovering The Green Book, a real guide to accommodations which was published for decades to aid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undefeated

  Alexander, Kwame,

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  Childrens: A powerful poem with beautiful illustrtions depicting the trauma, the triumphs and the exceedingly wonderful accomplishments of the African American experience.

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  Childrens: Author Jaquelin Woodson tells her own story of what it was like growing up as an an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement all in verse.

• I'm Not Dying With You Tonight

  Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice),

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  Teen: Two teen girls, one black and one white, learn to work past their preconvieved notions and ideas about each other when they are thrown together during a racially charged event that forces them to work together to get home safely.

• This Book Is Anti-racist

  Jewell, Tiffany,

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  Childrens Non-fiction: Discusses social identities, describes the history of racism and the resistance against it, and offers guidance on becoming an anti-racist voice to move the world toward equality. Discusses social identities, describes the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• M Is for Movement

  Nagara, Innosanto

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  Childrens: A fictionalized memoir of a child growing up in Jakarta during social unrest as progtests against the government spread.