Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
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The Weight of Our Sky
$12.99 Add to cartA music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding, “stunning” (Publishers We
- Author: Alkaf, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1534426094
- Language: English
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Locked in
$9.99 Read moreLocked In Escape Rooms has a new owner. He’s offering prize money for whoever can successfully escape the room. Four very different teenagers answer the call. Tony is a star athlete and honor-roll stu… [more below]
- Author: Gomez, Halli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1631638459
- Language: English
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My Name Is Not Easy
$9.99 Read moreLuke knows his I nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can’t say. He knows he’ll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic v
- Author: Edwardson, Debby Dahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1477816291
- Language: English
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Other Side of the Tracks
$13.99 Add to cartThis “stirring…emotionally raw” (Publishers Weekly) young adult debut novel about three teens entangled by secret love, open hatred, and the invisible societal constraints wrapped around people both… [more below]
- Author: Alyse, Charity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1534497722
- Language: English
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The Precious Few: An Inspirational saga of courage based on true stories
$16.95 Add to cartWhile the Nazis round up Polish Jews and herd them to concentration camps, four separate young Jews find ways to escape, adjust, and fight back.
The force that drives them is an iron will to survive-ag
- Series: Holocaust Books for Young Adults
- Author: Twain, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9493322017
- Language: English
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
$12.99 Add to cartAs part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, Hilary has finally found a sense of belonging. But when she’s critically injured in an accident, everything changes.
Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana,
- Author: Nolan, Han
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0152046798
- Language: English
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The Real Education of TJ Crowley
$14.99 Add to cartComing of Age in a Time of Change – The Real Education of TJ Crowley
“When you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
“A deftly crafted, thought-provoking, and solid work of YA historical fiction.” – … [more below]
- Author: Overstake, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 173230470X
- Language: English
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Ask the Passengers
$18.99 Add to cartIn this truly original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society’s definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything–and offers hope to those who will never… [more below]
- Author: King, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0316194670
- Language: English
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Necessary Roughness
$9.99 Add to cartChan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota–Land of 10,000 Lakes–and probably 10,000 hicks, too. The Kims are the
- Author: Lee, Marie G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0064471691
- Language: English
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Shades of Black
$14.99 Read moreRomero, a Guyanese Canadian, is a sensitive kid who is just starting to attend an inner-city-style school with a large racialized population.
Romero falls in with a friendly crew but finds himself in
- Series: Lorimer Real Love
- Author: Anthony, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1459417194
- Language: English
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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
$19.99 Read moreThe saga of the Logan family–made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry–concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.
In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor complete- Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399257306
- Language: English
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Incendiary
$21.99 Add to cartSet in a lushly drawn world inspired by Inquisition Spain, Zoraida Cdova’s fantasy is an epic tale of love and revenge perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Sarah J. Maas!
As a memory thief- the rar… [more below]- Series: Hollow Crown #1
- Author: Córdova, Zoraida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0759556040
- Language: English
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Not Talking about You
$9.99 Read moreKhalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team–until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teamma
- Author: Heronjones, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1459417070
- Language: English
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How It Went Down
$10.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068231
- Language: English
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Incantation
$12.99 Add to cartBestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0316154288
- Language: English
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The Lines We Cross
$12.99 Read moreA remarkable story about the power of tolerance from one of the most important voices in contemporary Muslim literature, critically acclaimed author Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Michael likes to hang out with h… [more below]
- Author: Abdel-Fattah, Randa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1338282050
- Language: English
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Other Side of the Tracks
$19.99 Read moreThis “stirring…emotionally raw” (Publishers Weekly) young adult debut novel about three teens entangled by secret love, open hatred, and the invisible societal constraints wrapped around people both… [more below]
- Author: Alyse, Charity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1534497714
- Language: English
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Ask Me No Questions
$12.99 Add to cartA Muslim immigrant teen struggles to hold her family together in the wake of 9/11 in this poignant novel from acclaimed author Marina Budhos.You forget. You forget you don’t really exist here, that th… [more below]
- Author: Budhos, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416949208
- Language: English
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The Cost of Knowing
$18.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews!
Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he for- Author: Morris, Brittney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1534445455
- Language: English
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case (Books about Love for Kids, Civil Rights History Book)
$21.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, … [more below]
- Author: Powell, Patricia Hruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1452125902
- Language: English
