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Social Justice Reads: Young Adult Titles

This guide contains recently published titles addressing a variety of social justice issues.

Fiction

How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
Call Number: YA FIC AHMAD ARV
ISBN: 9780593202876
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
Call Number: YA FIC BROWN ECH
ISBN: 9781250309853
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Our Wayward Fate by Gloria Chao
Call Number: YA FIC CHAO GLO
ISBN: 9781534427617
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
Call Number: YA FIC DEAVE MAS
ISBN: 9781338306125
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
The Life I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
Call Number: YA FIC FLAKE SHA
ISBN: 9781338573176
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Call Number: YA FIC HAMMO CHR
ISBN: 9781534462724
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones
Call Number: YA FIC JONES KIM
ISBN: 9781492678892
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: YA FIC MAGOO KEK
ISBN: 9780805098693
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
Call Number: YA FIC REYNO JAS
ISBN: 9781481463331
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: YA FIC STONE NIC
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: YA FIC THOMA ANG
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Call Number: YA FIC THOMA ANG
ISBN: 9780062498564
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Call Number: YA GRAPHIC WALDE TIL
ISBN: 9781250178145
Publication Date: 2018-10-02

Nonfiction

When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition) by Patrisse Cullors; asha bandele; Benee Knauer (Adapted by)
Call Number: COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY YA 323.092 KHANC PAT
ISBN: 9781250194985
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni (Illustrator); Tristan Jimerson
Call Number: OURSELVES YA 425.55 BONGI ARC
ISBN: 9781620104996
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
Imaginary Borders by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA 304.28 MARTI XIU
ISBN: 9780593094136
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA 305.3 VAIDM ALO
ISBN: 9780593094655
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: YA 305.8 REYNO JAS
ISBN: 9780316453691
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager; Zoe More O'Ferrall (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA 306.766 PRAGE SAR
ISBN: 9780062474315
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
The Gender Quest Workbook for Teens by Rylan Jay Testa; Deborah Coolhart; Jayme Peta
Call Number: YA 306.768 TESTA RYL
ISBN: 9781626252974
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
One Person, No Vote (YA Edition) by Carol Anderson; Tonya Bolden
Call Number: YA 324.62 ANDER CAR
ISBN: 9781547601073
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Finish the Fight! by Veronica Chambers; Jessica Bennett
Call Number: YA 324.623 CHAMB VER
ISBN: 9780358408307
Publication Date: 2020-08-18
Lifting As We Climb by Evette Dionne
Call Number: YA 324.623 DIONN EVE
ISBN: 9780451481542
Publication Date: 2020-04-21
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman
Call Number: YA 363.7 FLEIS PAU
ISBN: 9780763671020
Publication Date: 2014-09-23
We Rise by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez; Justin Spizman
Call Number: YA 363.7 MARTI XIU
ISBN: 9781635650679
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Pretty One by Keah Brown
Call Number: YA 616.836 BROWN KEA
ISBN: 9781982100544
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Speaking Our Truth by Monique Gray Smith
Call Number: YA 971.00497 GRAY MON
ISBN: 9781459815834
Publication Date: 2017-09-19