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6) Kneel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This fearless debut novel explores racism, injustice, and self-expression through the story of a promising Black football star in Louisiana.
8) Fight back
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Aaliyah is inspired to stand up to a rise in Islamophobia after a terrorist attack at a concert, and searches for ways she and her friends can combat racism.
12) I rise
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
What do you do when the world shuts down? A heartwarming story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, When the World Turns Upside Down is about community, giving back, and understanding the world around us through the power of generosity from debut middle grade author K. Ibura.
14) Goodnight racism
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and text show children the language to dream of a better world.
15) True true
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Gil, a Black teen from Brooklyn, struggles to fit in at his primarily white Manhattan prep school, he wages a clandestine war against the racist administration, parents, and students, while working with other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard.
17) Dear Martin
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
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.
19) The comeback
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
20) Betty before X
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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