Books

Examples of FAIR Act Aligned Books

Grades K-3 (Some could be used as read alouds in upper grades)

• Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang
• Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell
• Thunder Boy Jr. by Alexie Sherman
• The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko

Grades 4-6

• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Tommy McKnight and the Great Election by Danny Kravitz
• Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling
• We Were There, Too!Bottom of Form

Grades 6-8

• Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Alexie Sherman
• Day of Tears by Julius Lester
• Our California by Pam Munoz Ryan
• She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander

More Books Grades K-12

· Mini Mia and Her Darling Uncle by P. Lindenbaum and E. K. Dyssegaard

· Asha’s Mums by R. Elwin

· Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

· Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders

· Large Fears by Myles E. Johnson

· When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Built a Community by Gayle E. Pitman

· Sparkle Boy by Lesléa Newman

· Daddy, Papa and Me by Lesléa Newman

· I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

· And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

· Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman

· From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom

· They She He Me, Free to Be! by Maya & Matthew Gonzales

· Mommy, Mama, and Me by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Carol Thompson

· George by Alex Gino

· Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

· Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

· They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

· Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings

· Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

· We Are Family by Patricia Hegarty

· Red - A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

· Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino