Children’s Picture Books

• The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

• Dreamers, Yuyi Morales

• Anti-Racist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky

• I Have A Dream, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., paintings by Kadir Nelson

• Dim Sum For Everyone! Grace Lin

• The Day You Begin, Jaqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez

• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez And Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation, Duncan Tonatuih

• Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock, Aslan & Kelly Tudor

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, Vashti Harrison

• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History, Vashti Harrison

• The People Shall Continue, Simon J. Ortiz

• Something Happened In Our Town, Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

• Mommy’s Khimar, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

• I Am Not A Number, Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland

• Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes, Wab Kinew

• The Proudest Blue, Ibtihaj Muhammad

• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

• Sulwe, Lupita Nyong’o

• Hot Hot Roti for Dada-ji, F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min

• The Boy And The Wall, Palestinian Children in the Aida Refugee Camp

• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade

• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

• Birdsong by Julie Flett

• When We Were Alone by David Robertson, illustrated by Julie Flett

• Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel

• Ho’onani Hula Warrior by Heather Gale, illustrated by Mika Song

Middle Grade Books

• Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac

• New Kid, Jerry Craft

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis

• I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

• It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel, Firoozeh Dumas

• Stella By Starlight, Sharon M. Draper

• The Birchbark House series, Louise Erdrich

• My Family Divided, Diane Guerrero

• Amina’s Voice, Hena Khan

• Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai

• The Year Of The Dog by Grace Lin

• The Stars Beneath Our Feet, David Barclay Moore

• Dust of Eden, Mariko Nagai

• The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney

• Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes

• The Barren Grounds by David Robertson

• Mary and the Trail of Tears by Andrea L. Rogers

• X: A Novel, Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon

• Hidden Figures (Young Readers’ Edition), Margot Lee Shutterly

• The Arrival by Shaun Tan

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry series, Mildred D. Taylor

• One Crazy Summer trilogy, Rita Williams-Garcia

• Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

• Front Desk, Kelly Yang

Young Adult Novels

• All American Boys, Jason Reynolds

• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

• Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Pattillo Beals

• Fire From the Rock, Sharon M. Draper

• Internment, Samira Ahmed

• Dear Martin, Nic Stone

• Anger Is a Gift, Mark Oshiro

• If I Ever Get Out of Here, Eric Gansworth

• Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults), Bryan Stevenson

• A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi

• Hearts Unbroken, Cynthia Leitich Smith

• Enrique’s Journey (Adapted for Young People), Sonia Nazario

• More Than Enough, Elaine Welteroth

• All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson

• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, Edited by Ibi Zoboi

• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett, illustrator Natasha Donovan

• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

• Apple by Eric Gansworth

• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

• Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo