Children & Young Adult
Children & Young Adult
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
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes...
$12.99
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater is a collection of essays penned by bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk.Essays of bullying, heartbreak, racism, and confidence, Ashley taps into her own past and shares those...
$19.99
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)
This inspiring memoir, now adapted for young adults, chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi's incredible and odds-defying fame in the food world after a tough childhood in the Bronx and Nigeria.Food was Kwame Onwuachi's first great...
$11.99
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as...
$17.99
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.
A stunning visual autobiography of two crazy-talented besties, bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds and painter Jason Griffin, who could never be who they are singularly if they weren’t who they were together.Once upon a time in America, there were...
$19.99
Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words: Young Reader Edition (In Their Own Words: Young Reader Edition)
$15.95
Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words: Young Reader Edition (In Their Own Words: Young Reader Edition)
Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as First Lady of the United States. This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle Obama’s numerous public statements—interviews, books,...
$15.95
Men of the 65th: The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
Honor and Fidelity. That is the motto of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers, the only Puerto Rican unit in the United States Army. Since the regiment’s creation in 1899, the men of the 65th have proudly...
$17.99
Marvel Black Panther Wakanda Atlas
Uncover the mysteries of Black Panther’s Wakanda.From the Golden City, Birnin Zana, to the mountainous Jabari-Lands and even beyond space and time to the intergalactic Planet Bast, this book charts Wakanda and its key locations as never seen before.With stunning...
$30.99
Kamala Harris: First Female Us Vice President (Essential Lives)
This title examines the life and career of the lawyer and senator who was elected vice president of the United States in 2020. Harris became the first female vice president, as well as the first Black and Asian American vice...
$41.36
Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American
"Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either Black or white. She had no idea that a Black girl could be a Spanish...
$14.95
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth...
$16.99
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide...
$19.99
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college...
$19.99
The Hope Raisers: How a Group of Young Kenyans Fought to Transform Their Slum and Inspire a Community
The poignant and inspiring true story of three young Kenyans who fought to transform their slum and improve the lives of those around them. Korogocho is one of Kenya’s darkest slums, plagued by gang violence, food and water shortages, and...
$33.99
Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult ― 2022 Finalist“Instead of remaining silent, she chose to speak out … That’s the power of one person.” ― Barack ObamaThe inspiring story of Angeline Jackson, who stood up to Jamaica’s oppression of...
$18.99
From the Late 1800s to the Early 1900s: Harriet Tubman to Anna Pavlova (History's Most Influential Women)
After escaping from enslavement, Harriet Tubman went on to become a vocal abolitionist and “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Her legacy as a social activist is undeniable. She worked alongside many other important historical figures, including Frederick Douglass and Susan...
$20.50
From Ancient Egypt to 1500: Hatshepsut to Isabella I (History's Most Influential Women)
Women have been influential from the earliest times of history. Around 3,500 years ago, Hatshepsut became an Egyptian pharaoh, something few women accomplished. Her reign was largely peaceful and productive, and she attained a high level of power. Isabella the...
$20.50
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
Booklist Editors’ ChoiceWINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better WorldWINNER – International Literacy Association (ILA) – Young Adult NonfictionHONOR – 2023 Malka Penn Award for Human RightsTop 10 – In the Margins Book AwardEditor’s Choice - BooklistKnowledge...
$19.99
Forced to Flee: Refugee Children Drawing on their Experiences
Refugee children explain in their own words and pictures their thoughts, feelings and experiences about having to flee from their home countries.Produced in association with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and with a foreword from Cate Blanchett, Goodwill...
$15.99
Finding Her Voice: How Black Girls in White Spaces Can Speak Up and Live Their Truth
"A how-to book to encourage and empower Black teenage girls."—Kirkus Reviews Find the strength and confidence needed to speak up, be heard, and assert yourself in a world filled with microaggressions and discrimination. Have you experienced stress, frustration, anger, or sadness...
$16.95
A Few Red Drops
This mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson...
$13.99
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood
A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock...
$16.95