Diverse Reads for the Summer

Post date: Jul 08, 2020 9:1:29 PM

Diverse Reads for the Summer

(Click on links for book trailers & read-alouds)

Picture Books

✔ A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory

✔ The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson

✔ Sit-In: How 4 Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney

✔ Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higg

✔ The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko & Sean Qualls

✔ Game Changers by Lesa Cline-Ransome & James Ransome

✔ Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome & James Ransome

✔ The Bell Rang by James Ransome

✔ The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López

✔ The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson & Vanessa Brantley-Newton

✔ Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James

✔ Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry & Vashti Harrison

✔ 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith

✔ Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi & Ashley Lukashevsky

Chapter Books

✔ Ghost Boys and Black Brother, Black Brother, both by Jewell Parker Rhodes (realistic fic)

✔ A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee (realistic fiction)

✔ Blended and Stella By Starlight, both by Sharon Draper (realistic fiction/historical fiction)

✔ Finding Langston and Leaving Lymon, both by Lesa Cline-Ransome (historical fiction)

✔ The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (historical fiction)

✔ Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson (realistic fiction)

✔ Wishtree by Katherine Applegate (fantasy)

✔ Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (realistic fiction)

✔ What Lane? and Tight, both by Torrey Maldonado (realistic fiction)

✔ The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Gabriel Haberlin (historical fiction)

✔ The Crossover and Rebound, both by Kwame Alexander (novels-in-verse)

✔ New Kid by Jerry Kraft (graphic novel)

Nonfiction

✔ This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action & Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell

✔ Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny & Injustice by Veronica Chambers, foreword by Sen. Cory Booker

Young Adult Fiction

✔ The Poet X and With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

✔ American Street by Ibi Zoboi

✔ A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

✔ Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

✔ I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

✔ After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

✔ The Hate U Give and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

✔ Internment and Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

✔ Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

✔ All American Boys and Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

✔ Dear Martin and Jackpot and Odd One Out by Nic Stone

✔ Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

✔ See No Color by Shannon Gibney

✔ Meet Cute by Various Authors

✔ Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali

✔ A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

✔ The Belles and The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton

✔ Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi with Jason Reynolds, Leah Henderson and Renee Watson

Nonfiction

✔ Pushout by Renee Watson

✔ Stolen Justice by Lawrence Goldstone

✔ This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action & Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell

✔ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

✔ Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

✔ Just Mercy: Adapted for Young Adults by Bryan Stevenson

✔ Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

✔ Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad

✔ March: Books One, Two and Three by John Lewis