Watauga Library Youth Services: Books for Social Justice

Ages 0-11
American Indians in Children’s Literature
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Black Children’s Books & Authors
CBC Diversity
The New York Times: These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids:
Christopher Paul Curtis Supplementary Content to Go With His Books
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
EmbraceRace - 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Jacqueline Woodson books
Stone Bookworms: Anti-Racist Reading
Walter Dean Myers Books by Grade Level

Ages 12-15
Booklist Shelf Care Interview with Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds as they discuss
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
SLJ Social Justice Middle Grade
Kekla Magoon books

Ages 16-18
#Own Voices YA Favorites
Teen Librarian Toolbox - Anti-racist Reading List

Parents

How Can  Parents Make Their Kids Understand How to Be Anti-racist?

There is no Neutral: 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit in a Racist Society

Mothers for Justice United

Easys

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Hair Love by Matthew Cherry

I Am Love by Susan Verde

Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Love the World by Todd Parr

Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport

Malala by Jeanette Winter

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

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Soldiers for Equality by Duncan Tonatiuh

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o 

We're the Same, We're Different by Bobbi Jane Kates

Who Ever You Are by Mem Fox

Teens

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

New Kid by Jerry Craft

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Adults

How to be an Antiracist by Ibrarm X. Kendi

What If All the Kids Are White? by Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey

The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism by Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin