Young Adult
The only black girls in town
Brandy Colbert
jFICTION Colbert Brandy
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
In a predominately white California beach town, the only two black seventh-graders, Alberta and Edie, find hidden journals that uncover family secrets and speak to race relations in the past.
Monster : a graphic novel
Guy A. Sims
GRAPHIC NOVEL Myers
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Graphic Novels, Young Adult
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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The black mage
Daniel (Daniel Howard) Barnes
GRAPHIC NOVEL Barnes
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult, Graphic Novels
"When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's "Magical Minority Initiative," begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all the way back to the American Civil War, and could cost Tom his very soul"--Amazon.
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Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you
Ibram X. Kendi
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Read Woke, Young Adult, Nonfiction
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
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Black enough : Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
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Light it up
Kekla Magoon
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Young Adult, Diverse Characters, Read Woke
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
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Pride
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
After the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri is forced to find common ground with Darius, while struggling with her four wild sisters, a handsome boy vying for her attention, and college applications.
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The crossover
Kwame Alexander
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Say her name
Zetta Elliott
811.6/Elliott
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls.
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Dear Martin
Nic Stone
eBOOK
Black Lives Matter, Diverse Characters, Read Woke, Young Adult
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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