2023 9-12 Dogwood Titles

Abuela, Don't Forget Me Rex Ogle

Ain't Burned All the Bright Jason Reynolds Jason Griffin

Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Fredrick Joseph & Porsche

Help Save the World Joseph

Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Charles Bosworth Jr. &

Case Joel J. Schwartz

Cramm this Book: So You Know WTF is Going on Olivia Seltzer

in this World Today

Hanged!: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Sarah Miller

Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Hometown Victory: A Coach's Story of Football, Keanon Lowe (w/ Justin Spizman)

Fate, & Coming Home

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese Laura Gao Laura Gao

American

Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Candace Fleming

Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting Kindra Neely

Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays of Hope, Ashley Woodfolk 

Humanity, and our Hero, Michelle Obama

Rising Troublemaker: Fear-Fighting Manual for Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Teens

Science and the Skeptic: Discerning Fact from Marc Zimmer

Fiction

Semi-Famous: A True Story of a Near Celebrity Josh Sundquist

The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and David J. Dennis Jr. &

the Legacy of a Freedom Ride David J. Dennis Sr.

Token Black Girl: A Memoir Danielle Prescod

Unequal: A Story of America Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Simu Liu

Origin Story

What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans Juno Sawson

and/or Nonbinary

You are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Minda Harts

Girl's Guide to Finding Your Voice

2021 9-12 Dogwood Titles

Title                                                                                          Author                               Publisher

Dragon Hoops Gene Luen Yang Humble Comics LLC

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from 

Refugee Girls Around the World Malala Yousafzai with Liz Welch Little, Brown

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh Candace Fleming Schwartz & Wade Books

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir Nikki Grimes Wordsong

The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, 

War and Survival Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan Bloomsbury

Soaring Earth Margarita Engle Antheneum Books for Young Readers

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi Little Brown Books for Young Readers

Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, 

and the 14th Amendment Larry Dane Brimner Boyds Mills

Shout Laurie Halse Anderson Viking

Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who 

Almost Saved the World Jeff Henigson Delacorte Press

They Called Us Enemy George Takei, Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott Top Shelf Books

Free to Be Me Dom & Ink Penguin Workshop

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Scholastic Nonfiction

We Are Here to Stay Susan Kuklin Candlewick Press

Dancing at the Pity Party Tyler Feder Dial Books

How to be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi One World

I Am the Night Sky and Other Reflections by Muslim 

American Youth     Next Wave Muslim Initiative Writers Shout Mouse Press

An Indigenous People's History of the United States 

for Young People Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese Beacon

I Was Their American Dream Malaka Gharib Clarkson Potter

Fly Like a Girl Mary Jennings Hegar Philomel Books