BOOKLISTS FOR K-12 YOUTH
20+ Books For Boys/Teens Of Color
Dear Martin By Nic Stone.
Black Boy by Richard Wright.
The Fall of Rome: A Novel by Martha Southgate.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest J. Gaines.
A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich by Alice Childress.
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Color of Water by James McBride
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The Other by Wes Moore.
Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper.
The Pact by George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt.
Anything by author Jason Reynolds
Anything from the Bluford Series
20 Books For 3-8 yr Olds to Support Conversation on Race & Inclusion
1.Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
2. All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
3. The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by S.K. Ali,
4. I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
5. Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
6. Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez
7. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
8. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
9. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
10. My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
11. When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson
12. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison OR Little Legends: Exceptional in Black History by Vashti Harrison
13. Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins & Ann Hazzard
14. Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
15. That's Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla & Sharyll Teneyuca
16. Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan
17. A Different Pond by Bao Phi
18.When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiaki-Fenton
19. Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey
20. When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson
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