Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Black Lives Matter: Teens and Racism
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Coles, Jay, author.
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye... More
New Kid
Craft, Jerry, author, illustrator.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of... More
Light It Up
Magoon, Kekla, author.
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a w... More
I Am Alfonso Jones
Medina, Tony, author.
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and... More
A Good Kind of Trouble
Ramée, Lisa Moore, author.
After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black... More
All American Boys
Reynolds, Jason, author.
Sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing. Classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal bea... More
Ghost Boys
Rhodes, Jewell Parker, author.
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of h... More
I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice), author.
Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other... More
Dear Martin
Stone, Nic, author.
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce Mc... More
The Hate U Give
Thomas, Angie, author.
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life... More
Piecing Me Together
Watson, Renée, author.
Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mo... More
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stevenson, Bryan, author.
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a la... More
This Book is Anti-Racist
Jewell, Tiffany, author.
This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adult... More
Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You
Reynolds, Jason, author.
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, ... More
We Are Not Yet Equal : Understanding Our Racial Divide
Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine), author.
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves mil... More
One Person, No Vote : How Not All Voters are Treated Equally
Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine), author.
"In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of... More
Say Her Name
Elliott, Zetta, author.
"Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poe... More
