Children & Young Adult
Children & Young Adult
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women’s rights by the New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism“A beautifully drawn, hold-no-punches, surprisingly deep dive through the history of women's rights around the world, which will entrance kids and adults...
$19.99
Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War
The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native Rwanda.Gitarama, the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful...
$24.95
Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War
The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native Rwanda.Gitarama, the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful...
$22.99
AFTER THE RAIN
After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.”Features bonus content including Q&As with the creative team and never-before-seen art and designs!During a violent and unexpected storm in a...
$22.99
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
In the graphic novel history Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma—also known as Black Wall Street—a community whose importance is...
$15.99
Across a Field of Starlight: (A Graphic Novel)
An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war. An amazing story that explores the complexity of human nature and what brings us together.When they were kids, Fassen’s fighter...
$23.99
You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls' Guide to Finding Your Voice
“Every parent of a Black or brown girl should buy this book, read it to their child, and pass it along to the other parents in their circle.”—Evette Dionne, National Book Award longlisted and Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Lifting...
$17.99
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hopeIn Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors...
$18.99
Wearing My Mother's Heart
Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the...
$18.99
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.A New York Times Bestseller!Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature storiesFrom...
$17.99
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history.“A...
$18.00
Unequal: A Story of America
Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau show how racial inequality permeates every facet of American society, through the lens of those pushing for...
$18.99
Unbeatable
Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from...
$14.99
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up...
$19.99
The Black Lives Matter Movement (Thinking Critically)
The Black Lives Matter movement is a modern social and political campaign that seeks to highlight racial inequality and end police violence against Black Americans. Through a narrative-driven pro/con format--supported by relevant facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations--this book examines...
$42.99
Team Up: Andy Warhol & Jean Michel Basquiat
New York, the 1980s. Change is happening in the art world, where art is moving out of galleries and onto the streets. Two stars come together to create an unlikely friendship: one is a Pop Art legend, the other a...
$16.95
The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.The...
$17.99
Stay Up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom
An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using...
$23.99
Stand Up for Racial Justice (Teen Activism Library)
"According to a 2020 [poll], 78 percent of American young voters of color took one or more of the following activist actions in 2020: signing a petition, posting or sharing information about racial issues on social media, and attending protest....
$42.99
The Spirit of Freedom: Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement
An inspiring and eye-opening look at the unsung women of the Civil Rights Movement. For decades, the women toiling both in the forefront and behind the scenes of the Civil Rights Movement have been overlooked. These women forced integration of...
$41.99
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
In a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page.Be with yourself for a moment.Be yourself for a moment.Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring...
$7.99
Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones uses her honesty and humor to inspire teens to be their bravest, boldest, truest selves, in order to create a world they would be...
$17.99
Rise Up!
This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the...
$19.99
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
A National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor BookWith passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human...
$24.99
The Race to Be Myself Young Readers Edition
In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports. Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time world champion in track from...
$19.99
A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James...
$18.99
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this...
$19.99
Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography
2023 IPNE Award Finalist, Young Adult 2022 Foreword INDIES Winner, Honorable Mention, Juvenile Nonfiction Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender...
$24.99
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
A young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the “Black travel...
$22.99
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearAward-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this “well-executed and long overdue” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) introduction to white privilege and why allyship is so...
$18.99