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Teen Booklist: Black Lives Matter

Fiction

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
ISBN: 1481463330
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen
ISBN: 9780593619049
Publication Date: 2023-08-29
Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
ISBN: 1250167027
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
ISBN: 1250309859
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
ISBN: 1534462724
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
ISBN: 1101939494
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN: 0316262285
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
ISBN: 9780593112014
Publication Date: 2024-01-09
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 0062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9781250068231
Publication Date: 2015-12-15
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones
ISBN: 1492678899
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
ISBN: 1989365167
Publication Date: 2020-06-16
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
ISBN: 1481438255
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Poemhood: Our Black Revival by Amber McBride; Erica Martin; Taylor Byas; L. L. C. Ashwin Writing (Photographer)
ISBN: 9780063225282
Publication Date: 2024-01-30
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi; Yusef Salaam
ISBN: 0062996487
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
ISBN: 0593118766
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
ISBN: 0316440779
Publication Date: 2018-03-20
Vinyl Moon by Mahogany l. Browne
ISBN: 9780593176436
Publication Date: 2022-01-11

Graphic Novels

Black History in Its Own Words by Ron Wimberly (Artist)
ISBN: 1534301534
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina; Stacey Robinson (Illustrator); John Jennings (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1620142635
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Monster: a Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Myers; Dawud Anyabwile (Illustrator); Guy A. Sims
ISBN: 0062275003
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long; Jim Demonakos; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1250164982
Publication Date: 2018-01-02

Non-fiction

Accountable by Dashka Slater
ISBN: 9780374314347
Publication Date: 2023-08-22
The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
ISBN: 9781536217018
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593461709
Publication Date: 2024-02-13
The Black Lives Matter Movement by Peggy J. Parks
ISBN: 1682822850
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Everything I Learned about Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell
ISBN: 9780358638315
Publication Date: 2024-02-27
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi; Nic Stone
ISBN: 9780593461600
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
The Other Talk by Brendan Kiely; Jason Reynolds (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781534494046
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Resilient Black Girl by M. J. Fievre
ISBN: 9781642506549
Publication Date: 2021-09-14
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 0316453692
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
ISBN: 9781250801067
Publication Date: 2021-05-04
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition) by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele; Benee Knauer (Adapted by)
ISBN: 1250194989
Publication Date: 2020-09-29

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Black Lives Matter official web site

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