Books (Children and Young Adult) That Discuss Race and Racism

**Note. Resources compiled by B. Pinetta

Written by youth/young people:

• Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi: https://www.chooseorg.org/ournewbook

• Boy and the Wall: https://www.shoppalestine.org/product-p/book_kids_boy_wall.htm The writers and illustrators of this English/Arabic bilingual picture book are Palestinian refugee children in the Aida Refugee Camp near the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

List of Anti-Racism books for children

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html

Selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators:

https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/

Children’s Books that Discuss Race and Racism:

• Malcolm Little, The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz

• Let it Shine, Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

• Something Happened in Our Town, A Children’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard

• My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

• Separate is Never Equal, Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

• Young Water Protectors, A Story About Standing Rock by Aslan Tudor and Kelly Tudor

• My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Erica Moroz

• We are Grateful by Traci Sorell and Frané Lessac

• I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

• Lailah’s Lunchbox, A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

• The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

• Moses, When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom byCarole Boston Weatherford

• When I was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

• Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

• Chocolate Milk, Por Favor! by Maria Dismondy

• Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford

• When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett

• Shining Star, the Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo and Lin Wang

• Little Leaders, Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt

• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

YA Novels with YOC:

• The Children of Blood and Bone (series) - Tomi Adeyemi

• The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo

• Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo

• With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo

• Shadowshaper (series) - Daniel José Older

• Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

• Our Wayward Fate - Gloria Chao

• Slay - Brittney Morris

• Once Upon an Eid, Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed

• Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

• Light it Up - Kekla Magoon

• The Moon Within - Aida Salazar

• Dominicana - Angie Cruz

• Ordinary Girls - Jaquira Díaz

• The City of Brass (series) - S.A. Chakraborty

• The Best at It - Maulik Pancholy