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Books About Race, Racism and Resistance for Children and Teens

Fiction and Nonfiction books about Race, Racism and Resistance. #indyplkids #indyplteens

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  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Reynolds, Jason,
    Teen: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning.
    eBook, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • 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…
    Book, 2015New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015] — TEEN FIC REY
  • Something Happened in Our Town

    a Child's Story About Racial Injustice

    Celano, Marianne,
    Children's Picture Book: An aid to open discussion and address racism and sticking up for those who are different with children.
    Book, 2018Washington, DC : Magination Press, [2018] — J E CEL
  • Children's Picture Book: Featuring beautiful illustrations and Tanka poems detailing that there is more to black boys than the color of their skin.
    Book, 2018Oklahoma City : Penny Candy Books, 2018. — J E MED
  • 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.
    eBook, 2018New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2018] — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • Black Enough

    Stories of Being Young & Black in America

    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.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — TEEN FIC BLA
  • Woke

    a Young Poet's Call to Justice

    Browne, Mahogany L.,
    Book, 2020New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — J 811.008 BRO
  • 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.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — TEEN FIC THO
  • 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.
    Book, 2017New York : Crown, [2017] — TEEN FIC STO
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2013Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013] — TEEN GN LEW
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2015Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2015] — TEEN GN LEW
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2016Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2016] — TEEN GN LEW
  • 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.
    Book, 2014New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — TEEN FIC MAG
  • 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…
    Book, 2010Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, [2010] — J E RAM
  • Childrens: A powerful poem with beautiful illustrtions depicting the trauma, the triumphs and the exceedingly wonderful accomplishments of the African American experience.
    Book, 2019Boston : Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — J 811.6 ALE
  • 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.
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014] — J B Woodson, Jacqueline WOO
  • 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.
    Book, 2019Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, [2019] — TEEN FIC JON
  • 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…
    Book, 2020Minneapolis, MN : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020. — J 305.8 JEW
  • Childrens: A fictionalized memoir of a child growing up in Jakarta during social unrest as progtests against the government spread.
    eBook, 2019Seven Stories Press, 2019. — EBOOK AXIS 360