In this graphic novel, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds after his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics.
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Read Woke: Teen Books About Race and Racism
This booklist highlights diverse, culturally relevant titles that discuss race and racism. These recommendations are intended for middle school and high school students.
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- Twelve-year-old Shayla doesn't like to make waves—but as she navigates middle school and educates herself about prejudice in her community, she learns that sometimes it's good to cause a little trouble.
- Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.…
- A new teacher helps Maleeka stand up to the classmates who bully her and feel comfortable in her own skin.
- A cross-country move, questions about her adoption and origins, and an incident of racism at school all have Makeda wondering where she belongs.
- This novel tells the the story of Steve Harmon, a teenager on trial for murder. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.
- When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
- Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
- After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
- Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They've always been inseparable, and when Monday doesn't show up for school for two weeks, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia…
- After a skeleton is found on her family's property, Rowan investigates the murder of William, a teen involved in the 1921 Tulsa race riot.
- The civil rights movement in 1959 Virginia irrevocably changes the lives of two girls: a persecuted black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school and a white integration opponent’s daughter with whom she confronts harsh…
- Congressman John Lewis recounts his lifelong involvement with the civil rights movement in this graphic novel series. Book One focuses on Lewis' early years as the son of an Alabama sharecropper who went on to discover nonviolent activism in college.
- Congressman Lewis' story continues in Book Two, which focuses on the events that led him to become one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement and the 1963 March on Washington.
- In the final volume of the March trilogy, Congressman Lewis examines pivotal events in the civil rights movement from Bloody Sunday to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Writer and educator Tieffany Jewell successfully combines personal experience and social and historical issues in this colorful and informative guidebook. Each chapter contains exercises to help readers conceive of their own identities, recognize…
- A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today. Adapted from the National Book Award winner, "Stamped from the Beginning."
- On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine…
- This book examines social justice movements, each met with a corresponding backlash from white society, throughout American history as we work toward racial equity.
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