Winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice
Dad, what happened?
Why are they shooting?
What is this vigil for?
Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators invite you into their homes to witness the conversations they have with their children about race in America today in this powerful call-to-action that invites all families to be anti-racists and advocates for change.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.com
Also available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities to support your anti-racism journey$19.99ISBN: 9781782409274Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Ivy Kids - October 1st, 2019$19.99ISBN: 9781534408999Availability: Not currently on our shelves, but available in 1-3 days.Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - August 14th, 2018From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including award-winning and bestselling writers—touches on a powerful range of topics related to gro$18.99ISBN: 9780525645818Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Crown Books for Young Readers - January 7th, 2020Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discover over fifty remarkable African American women whose unique skills and contributions paved the way for the next generation of young people. Perfect for fans of Rad Women Worldwide, Women in Science, and Girls Think of Everything.
$23.99ISBN: 9781786031587Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Wide Eyed Editions - February 1st, 2018“...to be revisited again and again…The candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resist…” –The New York Times
“...diverse collection of iconic figures…vibrantly illustrated…beautifully crafted volume…” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“…exub$18.95ISBN: 9781948340083Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Dottir Press - July 23rd, 2019ONE OF HUFFPOST'S RECOMMENDED "ANTI-RACIST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS"
FEATURED ON KEYS SOULCARE AS "5 STUNNING VISUAL BOOKS FOR ALL AGES"
$16.99ISBN: 9781433828546Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Magination Press - March 1st, 2018The companion book, Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, is coming in 2021. Preorder now.
A NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER A Little Free Library Action Book Club Selection National Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)$18.95ISBN: 9781948340007Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Dottir Press - September 4th, 2018An honest explanation about how power and privilege factor into the lives of white children, at the expense of other groups, and how they can help seek justice. --THE NEW YORK TIMES
**A WHITE RAVEN 2019 SELECTION**
NAMED ONE OF SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018
$17.99ISBN: 9780062839930Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: HarperCollins - June 4th, 2019This resonant and award-winning picture book tells the story of one girl who constantly gets asked a simple question that doesn’t have a simple answer. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom—a book to share, in the spirit of I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo.
$18.95ISBN: 9781419710544Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Abrams Books for Young Readers - May 6th, 2014Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family fought to end segregation in California schools. Discover their incredible story in this picture book from award-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh
A Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and Robert F.$18.99ISBN: 9780399246531Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2018A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!$17.99ISBN: 9781499809169Availability: Not currently on our shelves, but available in 1-3 days.Published: little bee books - October 1st, 2019"Contagiously upbeat, joyful, and positive . . .
$18.99ISBN: 9781606840016Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Carolrhoda Books (R) - October 27th, 2009When you look in a mirror, who do you see?
A boy? A girl?
A son? A daughter?
A runner? A dancer?
Whoever and whatever you see―just put out your fist and give yourself an I am BAM$17.99ISBN: 9781534425361Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - October 15th, 2019A New York Times bestseller!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work
From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a pow$16.99ISBN: 9781984895578Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Doubleday Books for Young Readers - February 11th, 2020Mechal Renee Roe, illustrator of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's Super Heroes Are Everywhere, creates a joyful, positive, read-together book celebrating boys with natural black hair that will have kids everywhere chanting: "I am born to be awesome!"
Email or call for priceISBN: 9781416954613Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Little Simon Inspirations - July 8th, 2008Tony Dungy's little brother, Linden, is a third grader who is having a bad day at school. Linden is the youngest of the Dungy family and the least motivated because he hasn't found "it." In a family where everyone seems to have found their special talent, all Linden knows is that he wants to make people happy.
$17.99ISBN: 9781328780966Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Versify - April 2nd, 2019Winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal
A 2020 Newbery Honor Book
Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life$18.95ISBN: 9781572842243Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Agate Bolden - October 10th, 2017Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers
A Newbery Honor Book
A Caldecott Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
An Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Book
An Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor Book
A Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Book$18.99ISBN: 9781250311207Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Roaring Brook Press - March 10th, 2020"This collection of poems by women of color covers topics relating to social justice, activism, discrimination and empathy, focusing on the need to speak out and inspiring middle-graders." -Vogue
Woke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.$16.95ISBN: 9780884487975Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Tilbury House Publishers - January 7th, 2020A CBC Recommended Book • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Picture Book of 2020
Kirkus Starred Review
PW Starred Review
School Library Journal Starred Review
$17.99ISBN: 9780525553366Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Kokila - May 14th, 2019"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this."
- Jordan Peele, Actor & Filmmaker$17.99ISBN: 9780062798602Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: HarperCollins - July 9th, 2019A picture book for magical yet imperfect girls everywhere, written by debut author Ashley Franklin and perfect for fans of such titles as Matthew A. Cherry's Hair Love, Grace Byers's I Am Enough, and Lupita Nyong'o's Sulwe.
$12.99ISBN: 9780062691194Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Quill Tree Books - February 5th, 2019Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature!
$16.99ISBN: 9781984892973Availability: Not currently on our shelves, but available in 1-3 days.Published: Crown Books for Young Readers - January 7th, 2020From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations.
How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma:
Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.$17.99ISBN: 9781481438285Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 8th, 2019A National Book Award Finalist!
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019
A School$7.99ISBN: 9781481450164Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - August 29th, 2017A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott Ki$11.99ISBN: 9781481463348Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - August 29th, 2017A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.
$18.99ISBN: 9780062498533Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Balzer + Bray - February 28th, 20178 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!
"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds
$18.99ISBN: 9781338323481Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Scholastic Focus - January 7th, 2020A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States.
Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?
$18.99ISBN: 9780316453691Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.$8.99ISBN: 9780593110416Availability: On Our Shelves Now, Please Click Through for Each Location's StockPublished: Kokila - June 16th, 2020A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
Featured on Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more!
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