Race Matters: Teaching Resources Around Race: Fiction Titles
This LibGuide is a culmination of a library department collegial circle on constructive race conversations. The purpose of this LibGuide is to provide BRMS and CRMS teachers with vetted anti-racism resources. These resources can be used for one's own pers
Race Matters...middle and YA level fiction for teaching around race
Identity Fiction
This list includes middle grade and young adult fiction titles around identity topics such as names, privilege, colorism, hair, code-switching, and other themes of coming-of-age stories.
Black Enough by Call Number: SC BLAISBN: 9780062698735Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Blended by ISBN: 9781442495005Publication Date: 2018-10-30
The Boy in the Black Suit by ISBN: 9781442459519Publication Date: 2016-08-16
Breakout by ISBN: 9781681195360Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Clap When You Land by Call Number: F AceISBN: 9780062882769Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by ISBN: 9780062215918Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Genesis Begins Again by ISBN: 9781481465809Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Ghost by ISBN: 9781481450157Publication Date: 2016-08-30
Harbor Me by ISBN: 9780399252525Publication Date: 2018-08-28
King of the Dragonflies by ISBN: 9781338129335Publication Date: 2020-02-04
The Only Black Girls in Town by ISBN: 9780316456388Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Piecing Me Together by Call Number: F WatISBN: 9781681191072Publication Date: 2018-06-05
The Proudest Blue by ISBN: 9780316519007Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Racism Fiction
This list includes middle grade and young adult fiction titles around topics of discrimination and systemic racism such as microaggressions, school-to-prison pipeline, police violence, crime and punishment, media bias, etc.
All American Boys by Call Number: F ReyISBN: 9781481463348Publication Date: 2017-08-29
As Brave As You by ISBN: 1481415905Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Black Brother, Black Brother by ISBN: 9780316493802Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by ISBN: 0062215914Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Dear Justyce by Call Number: F StoISBN: 9781984829665Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Dear Martin by Call Number: S StoISBN: 9781101939529Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Ghost Boys by ISBN: 9780316262286Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Long Way Down by Call Number: F ReyISBN: 9781481438261Publication Date: 2019-04-02
New Kid by ISBN: 9780062691200Publication Date: 2019-02-05
One Crazy Summer by ISBN: 0060760885Publication Date: 2010-01-26
This Is My America by Call Number: F JohISBN: 9780593118764Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Social Justice Fiction
This list includes middle grade and young adult fiction titles around social justice themes such as activism, protest, civil right, voting right, etc.
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by ISBN: 9780062875853Publication Date: 2020-01-14
A Good Kind of Trouble by Call Number: F RamISBN: 9780062836694Publication Date: 2020-06-16
The Hate U Give by Call Number: F ThoISBN: 9780062498533Publication Date: 2017-02-28
The Parker Inheritance by ISBN: 9780545946179Publication Date: 2018-03-27
The Voting Booth by ISBN: 9781368053297Publication Date: 2020-07-07
Poetry
Blues Journey by ISBN: 0823416135Publication Date: 2003-03-01
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by ISBN: 9780679844211Publication Date: 2007-11-13
Jazz by ISBN: 9780823415458Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Martin Rising by ISBN: 9780545702539Publication Date: 2018-01-02
One Last Word by ISBN: 9781619635548Publication Date: 2017-01-03
Say Her Name by ISBN: 9781368045247Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Selected Poems by ISBN: 9780060882969Publication Date: 2006-07-03
Woke by ISBN: 9781250311207Publication Date: 2020-03-10
