Children & Young Adult
Children & Young Adult
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hopeIn Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors...
$18.99
Wearing My Mother's Heart
Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the...
$18.99
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.A New York Times Bestseller!Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature storiesFrom...
$17.99
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history.“A...
$18.00
Unequal: A Story of America
Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau show how racial inequality permeates every facet of American society, through the lens of those pushing for...
$18.99
Unbeatable
Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from...
$14.99
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up...
$19.99
The Black Lives Matter Movement (Thinking Critically)
The Black Lives Matter movement is a modern social and political campaign that seeks to highlight racial inequality and end police violence against Black Americans. Through a narrative-driven pro/con format--supported by relevant facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations--this book examines...
$42.99
Team Up: Andy Warhol & Jean Michel Basquiat
New York, the 1980s. Change is happening in the art world, where art is moving out of galleries and onto the streets. Two stars come together to create an unlikely friendship: one is a Pop Art legend, the other a...
$16.95
The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.The...
$17.99
Stay Up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom
An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using...
$23.99
Stand Up for Racial Justice (Teen Activism Library)
"According to a 2020 [poll], 78 percent of American young voters of color took one or more of the following activist actions in 2020: signing a petition, posting or sharing information about racial issues on social media, and attending protest....
$42.99
The Spirit of Freedom: Powerful Women of the Civil Rights Movement
An inspiring and eye-opening look at the unsung women of the Civil Rights Movement. For decades, the women toiling both in the forefront and behind the scenes of the Civil Rights Movement have been overlooked. These women forced integration of...
$41.99
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
In a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page.Be with yourself for a moment.Be yourself for a moment.Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring...
$7.99
Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones uses her honesty and humor to inspire teens to be their bravest, boldest, truest selves, in order to create a world they would be...
$17.99
Rise Up!
This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the...
$19.99
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
A National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor BookWith passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human...
$24.99
The Race to Be Myself Young Readers Edition
In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports. Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time world champion in track from...
$19.99
A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James...
$18.99
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this...
$19.99
Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography
2023 IPNE Award Finalist, Young Adult 2022 Foreword INDIES Winner, Honorable Mention, Juvenile Nonfiction Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender...
$24.99
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
A young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the “Black travel...
$22.99
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearAward-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this “well-executed and long overdue” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) introduction to white privilege and why allyship is so...
$18.99
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes...
$12.99
Opening My Eyes Underwater: Essays on Hope, Humanity, and Our Hero Michelle Obama
Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater is a collection of essays penned by bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk.Essays of bullying, heartbreak, racism, and confidence, Ashley taps into her own past and shares those...
$19.99
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)
This inspiring memoir, now adapted for young adults, chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi's incredible and odds-defying fame in the food world after a tough childhood in the Bronx and Nigeria.Food was Kwame Onwuachi's first great...
$11.99
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as...
$17.99
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.
A stunning visual autobiography of two crazy-talented besties, bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds and painter Jason Griffin, who could never be who they are singularly if they weren’t who they were together.Once upon a time in America, there were...
$19.99
Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words: Young Reader Edition (In Their Own Words: Young Reader Edition)
$15.95
Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words: Young Reader Edition (In Their Own Words: Young Reader Edition)
Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as First Lady of the United States. This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle Obama’s numerous public statements—interviews, books,...
$15.95
Men of the 65th: The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
Honor and Fidelity. That is the motto of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers, the only Puerto Rican unit in the United States Army. Since the regiment’s creation in 1899, the men of the 65th have proudly...
$17.99