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MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL
(Recommendations taken from Insider)
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
"Long Way Down" by Jason Reynolds
"All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
"The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
"Never Caught" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
"Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL & YOUNGER
(Recommendations taken from Insider)
"Something Happened in Our Town" by Marriane Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
"Hair Love" by Matthew A. Cherry
"A is for Activist" by Innosanto Nagara
"Sulwe" by Lupita Nyong'o
"Malcolm Little" by Ilyasah Shabazz
"The Day You Begin" by Jacqueline Woodson
"Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History" by Vashti Harrison
“Little Legends: Bold Women in Black History" by Vashti Harrison
"I Am Enough" by Grace Byers
"We're Different, We're the Same" by Bobbi Kates
"The Colors of Us" by Karen Katz
"The Story of Ruby Bridges" by Robert Coles
"Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness" by Anastasia Higginbotham
"Antiracist Baby" by Ibram X. Kendi
