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Evaluating your Resources: Books on Racism

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Books to Help us Talk About Racism & Discrimination

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
ISBN: 9780525517245
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
ISBN: 9781338157796
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
ISBN: 9781481465823
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN: 9780316262286
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399252525
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
ISBN: 9781328781505
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781101993880
Publication Date: 2016-01-05
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
ISBN: 9781524701246
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
ISBN: 9781442494978
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
ISBN: 9781250159212
Publication Date: 2019-10-15

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YA

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
ISBN: 9780316013697
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
ISBN: 9781481463331
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Black and White by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 1416900179
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9781250068231
Publication Date: 2015-12-15
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
ISBN: 9781338118667
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
ISBN: 1616958472
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 0060280778
Publication Date: 1999-04-21
Slay by Brittney Morris
ISBN: 9781534445420
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
ISBN: 9781534426085
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
X by Ilyasah Shabazz; Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9780763669676
Publication Date: 2015-01-06

Picture-Story Books

Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780385390286
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
My Name Is Bilal by Barbara Kiwak (Illustrator); Asma Mobin-Uddin
ISBN: 9781590781753
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Desmond Tutu; A. G. Ford (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763652296
Publication Date: 2012-12-03

Adult & Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9780525582182
ISBN: 9780399588181
Black Lives Matter by Duchess Harris
ISBN: 9781532113949
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
ISBN: 0374313229
Publication Date: 2009-01-20
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363602
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Let's Talk about Race by Julius Lester; Karen Barbour (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064462266
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061783760
Publication Date: 2013-01-02
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399231162
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 9781596437968
Publication Date: 2014-01-21
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419710544
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Shining Star by Paula Yoo; Lin Wang
ISBN: 9781620142578
Publication Date: 2016-04-15
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles; George Ford (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439472265
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763665319
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
We Gon' Be Alright by Jeff Chang
ISBN: 9780312429485
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange; Rod Brown (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061337352
Publication Date: 2009-10-20
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson; Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618397525
Publication Date: 2005-04-04