Social Justice: For Kids & Teens

A Is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

An ABC of equality by Ewing, Chana Ginelle

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty; David Roberts (Illustrator)

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman; Caroline Binch (Illustrator)

Antiracist Baby [e-boook] by Ibram Kendi

Bedtime Bonnet by Nneka Myers (Illustrator); Nancy Redd

Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)

Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)

Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Donna Farrell (Illustrator); Maria Dismondy; Nancy Day (Editor); Elizabeth Supan (Afterword by)

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (Illustrator)

Cool Cuts by Mechal Renee Roe

Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara

Crown by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)

Daddy Why Am I Brown? by Winda Mulyasari (Illustrator); Bedford Palmer

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson; Rafael López (Illustrator)

Don't Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller

A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson; Nina Crews (Illustrator)

Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)

Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin; Lauren Tobia (Illustrator)

Harlem Grown by Tony Hillery; Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)

Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

I Am Enough by Grace Byers; Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)

I Got Next by Daria Peoples-Riley (Illustrator)

IntersectionAllies by Chelsea Johnson; LaToya Council; Carolyn Choi; Ashley Seil Smith (Illustrator)

La Justicia Ambiental Es para Ti y para Mí by Catalina De Onís; Hilda Lloréns; Mabette ón Pérez; Khalil García-Lloréns

Lailah's Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi; Lea Lyon

Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)

M Is for Melanin by Tiffany Rose

Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt; Vin Vogel (Illustrator)

Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon; Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)

Missing Daddy by Mariame Kaba; bria royal (Illustrator)

Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

My Hair Is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)

My Hair Is Beautiful by Shauntay Grant

My Mommy Medicine by Edwidge Danticat; Shannon Wright (Illustrator)

Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham (Illustrator)

One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck; Yasmeen Ismail (Illustrator)

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson; Earl Lewis (Illustrator); E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry; Jessica Curry; Brittany Jackson (Illustrator)

Princess Hair by Sharee Miller

Rainbow Weavery by Elisa Chavarri (Illustrator); Linda Elovitz Marshall (Illustrator)

Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator); Gwen Strauss

Saturday by Oge Mora (Artist)

Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons; Keith Mallett (Illustrator)

The Soccer Fence by Phil Bildner; Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator)

Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano; Marietta Collins; Ann Hazzard; Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)

Sulwe by Vashti Harrison (Illustrator); Lupita Nyong'o

A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. Holmes; Cary Pillo (Illustrator); Sasha J. Mudlaff (Afterword by)

Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

Violet's Music by Angela Johnson; Laura Huliska-Beith (Illustrator)

We Are All Connected by Gabi Garcia; Natalia Jimenez Osorio (Illustrator)

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)

We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) by Bobbi Kates; Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)

We March by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)

What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack; April Harrison (Illustrator)

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson; Julie Flett (Illustrator)

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren; Fabio Santomauro (Illustrator)

Who Will You Be? by Andrea Pippins

Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne; Theodore Taylor III (Illustrator)

You Matter by Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

As Good as Anybody by Richard Michelson; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)

Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Black Women Who Dared by Naomi M. Moyer

Brave. Black. First by Cheryl Hudson; Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

The Case for Loving by Selina Alko (Illustrator); Sean Qualls (Illustrator)

Dictionary for a Better World by Irene Latham; Charles Waters; Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)

Dolores Huerta by Sarah E. Warren; Robert Casilla (Illustrator)

Frederick Douglass by Walter Dean Myers; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins; Stan Yogi

Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America by Carole Boston Weatherford; Jamey Christoph (Illustrator)

Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renée Watson; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull; Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)

Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)

If a Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold (Illustrator)

Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Kid Activists by Robin Stevenson; Allison Steinfeld (Illustrator)

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford; Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)

Let's Talk about Race by Julius Lester; Karen Barbour (Illustrator)

Let It Shine by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator)

Lifting As We Climb by Evette Dionne

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison; Kwesi Johnson (As told to)

Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz; A. G. Ford (Illustrator)

March Forward, Girl by Melba Patillo Beals; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero; Erica Moroz

Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard; Oge Mora (Illustrator)

One Last Word by Nikki Grimes

The Power of Her Pen by Lesa Cline-Ransome; John Parra (Illustrator)

Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Reaching for the Moon by Katherine Johnson

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)

Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

She Stood for Freedom by Loki Mulholland; Angela Fairwell; Charlotta Janssen (Illustrator)

Shining Star by Paula Yoo; Lin Wang

Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)

The Skin I'm In by Pat Thomas; Lesley Harker (Illustrator)

Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles; George Ford (Illustrator)

Strange Fruit by Gary Golio; Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Ekua Holmes (Illustrator); Floyd Cooper (Illustrator); Tony Medina; Javaka Steptoe (Illustrator); R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)

This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce; Debbie Levy

Trombone Shorty by Bryan Collier (Illustrator); Troy Andrews

Unstoppable by Art Coulson; Nick Hardcastle (Illustrator)

Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged by Richard Rudnicki (Illustrator); Bushra Junaid (Illustrator); Jody Nyasha Warner

Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell; Frané Lessac (Illustrator)

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator); Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Woke : a young poet's call to justice by Mahogany L. Browne

The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson; Vanessa Brantley Newton (Illustrator)

Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz; Renée Watson; Renée Watson

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Blended by Sharon M. Draper

Can I Touch Your Hair? by Charles Waters; Irene Latham; Selina Alko (Illustrator); Sean Qualls (Illustrator)

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone

Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle; Jeanne Rorex Bridges (Illustrator)

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome

The First Rule of Climate Club by Carrie Firestone

For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington

From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis; Kathy Kacer; Gillian Newland (Illustrator)

The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine

Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds; Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis

New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Taylor, Mildred D.

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper; Sarah Jane Coleman (Cover Design by)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson; Nina Mata (Illustrator)

What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely

All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

Black Boy White School by Brian F. Walker

Black Enough by Varian Johnson; Kekla Magoon; Tochi Onyebuchi; Jason Reynolds; Nic Stone; Liara Tamani; Renée Watson; Rita Williams-Garcia; Ibi Zoboi; Tracey Baptiste; Coe Booth; Renée Watson; Dhonielle Clayton; Brandy Colbert; Jay Coles; Lamar Giles; Leah Henderson; Justina Ireland

Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Text by); Brian Stelfreeze (Illustrator)

The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd

Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Dig by A. S. King

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones

Internment by Samira Ahmed

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

Light It Up by Kekla Magoon

The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Monster by Walter Dean Myers; Christopher A. Myers (Illustrator)

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell (Editor)

Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

X by Ilyasah Shabazz; Kekla Magoon

1968: Today's Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change by Marc Aronson (Editor); Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Editor)

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall; Anna D'Amico

Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield

Girls Resist! by KaeLyn Rich; Giulia Sagramola (Illustrator)

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) by Bryan A. Stevenson

March by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

One Earth by Anuradha Rao

Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott; Loveis Wise (Illustrator, Cover Design by)

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi

This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell; Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)