• • Flying Lessons and Other Stories by Ellen Oh

  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  • Son by Lois Lowry

  • Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

  • Tangerine by Edward Bloor

  • Refugee by Alan Gratz

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

  • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Novels

• • All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

  • All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney

  • Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani

  • We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden

  • Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose (Civil rights heroine)

  • Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao (Taiwanese American teens tackle racism)

  • Black Boy by Richard Wright (Autobiography about Jim Crow)

  • How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon (Killing of a unarmed African American teen)

  • Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez (Latinx teen boy facing racism)

  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone (about racial profiling)

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

Graphic Novels

• • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

  • March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (about desegregation)

  • I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina (about police brutality)

  • X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon (about Malcolm X’s youth)

• • Giant Pumpkin Suite by Melanie Heuiser Hill

  • Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

  • Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman

  • Leonardo Da-Vinci Gets a Do-Over by Mark Friedlander

  • Ruby Redfort Feel the Fear by Lauren Child

  • A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell

• • Radium Girls by Kate Moore

  • How to by Randall Munroe

  • What if by Randall Munroe

  • Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe

  • The Disappearing Spoon by Sean Kean

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  • The Martian by Andy Weir

  • Fish Tank: A Fable for our times by Scott Bischke