Independent Learning

BOOKS

• Just Mercy (also a movie) by Bryan Stevenson

• The Hate U Give (also a movie) by Angie Thomas

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper

• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• March Trilogy by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

• A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

• The Joy Luck Club (also a movie) by Amy Tan

• The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

• All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

• Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha

• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

• Internment by Samira Ahmed

• Persepolis (also a movie) by Marjane Satrapi

• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

• I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver

• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

• You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson

• How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez

• Santiago's Road Home by Alexandra Diaz

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman