Audience: Student

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  A Kid Like Me

  Ethan doesn’t want to stand out, he just wants to fit in. fitting in is tough when you have an old cell phone, broken backpack, and thrift shop clothing.

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  Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School

  Mamie wanted to go to school, but Chinese children weren’t allowed. She showed up anyway. When she was turned away at the schoolhouse door, her parents sued the San Francisco school board and the case made it all the way to the California Supreme Court, which ruled that children of Chinese heritage had the right…

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  The Rock in My Throat

  Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee who refuses to speak at school because of the prejudice her parents experienced when trying to speak English.

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  Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i

  Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family’s land in Hawaii. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui’s east side—given by King Kamehameha III to her family in 1848. When a property tax bill arrives with a 500 percent increase, Sara and her family members are forced to decide whether to fight for…

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  At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

  At Last She Stood describes World War II in the Philippines, Joey’s spying, Louisiana, immigration, a person with leprosy, racism, and a peacemaker.

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  Malcolm Lives! The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers

  A comprehensive biography that covers the trauma of his early childhood through his criminal career, and prison time, then his later conversion to Islam and civil rights work. The biography continues through his assassination and continuing legacy.

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  Human Rights

  “All people deserve to be respected and valued. Regardless of where we were born, how much we have, what we believe or think, or our age or the color of our skin–all lives are important and we deserve to live them with satisfaction, justice, safety, and freedom. There are many different kinds of human rights…

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  I Am My Name: A Girl’s Journey to Finding Her Cree Family

  A very young girl was removed from her home during Canada’s Sixties Scoop, which tore children from their Indigenous communities. She woke in a new home, with a new family and a new name. How is she going to find her way home?

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  My Language Rights: A Child’s Right to Their Language

  Children explore how our words carry our memories, heritage, and cultural identity. This timely picture book presents a child-friendly manifesto for linguistic rights, celebrating the fundamental freedom to speak and learn in our mother tongues.

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  Stronger Than

  A Black Choctaw boy who finds strength in the example and history of his ancestors. Dante finds out hard truths—but also a love that shines through generations.

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  Indiginerds

  Featuring an all-Indigenous creative team, Indiginerds is a graphic novel anthology of 11 stories about young adult indigenous people balancing traditional practice with modern pop culture. A collection of tales from modern indigenous life.

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  Blue Stars, Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem

  In this graphic novel, cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins, and introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan. Can they find a way to work together to fix a problem at their school?