The Challenge: Read 20 engaging, inspiring, award-winning, best-selling, timely, narrative non-fiction books
over 4 years (outside of class) to get MORE out of high school and MORE out of life.
Race
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Call Number: B MALCOLM X
ISBN: 9780345379757
Publication Date: 1992-09-29
Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad; Lori Tharps (As told to)
Call Number: B MUHAMMAD
ISBN: 9780316518963
Publication Date: 2018-07-24
American Like Me by America Ferrera
Call Number: 920.073 Ame
ISBN: 9781501180910
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin; Connie Hsu (Editor)
Call Number: 796.332 She
ISBN: 9781596439542
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
One Goal by Amy Bass
Call Number: 796.334 Bas
ISBN: 9780316396547
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
Call Number: 364.15 Kot
ISBN: 9780385538800
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe
Call Number: 364.15 CRO
ISBN: 0803728042
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
Call Number: 792.7 Bel
ISBN: 9781101985878
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
How I Resist by Maureen Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: 320 How
ISBN: 9781250168368
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Glimmer of Hope by The March for Our Lives Founders
Call Number: 363.3 Gli
ISBN: 9781984836090
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Doing Justice by Preet Bharara
Call Number: 347.73 Bha
ISBN: 9780525521129
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: 305.8 Olu
ISBN: 9781580056779
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Ninety Feet Under : What Poverty Does to People by John Strazzabosco
Call Number: 362.5 Str
ISBN: 9780995978249
Publication Date: 2018
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.8 Coa
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: 305.23
ISBN: 9780316523646
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Charged by Emily Bazelon
Call Number: 345.73 BAZ
ISBN: 9780399590016
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
Call Number: B Grande
ISBN: 9781451661781
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
How Dare The Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Call Number: B Uwiringiyimana
ISBN: 9781549067310
Publication Date: 2017
Ink Knows No Borders by Patrice Vecchione; Alyssa Raymond; Javier Zamora
Call Number: 811 Ink
ISBN: 9781609809072
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: 305.8 KEN
ISBN: 9781568585987
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves by Jason DeParle
Call Number: B Comodas
ISBN: 9780670785926
Publication Date: 2019-08-20
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Jean Mendoza; Debbie Reese (Adapted by)
Call Number: 970 REE
ISBN: 9780807049396
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
Uncensored by Zachary R. Wood
Call Number: B Wood
ISBN: 9781524742447
Publication Date: 2018-06-19
Americanized by Sara Saedi
Call Number: B Saedi
ISBN: 9781524717797
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Jay-Z by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: 782.421 Dys
ISBN: 9781250230966
Publication Date: 2019-11-26
This Land Is Their Land by Suketu Mehta
Call Number: 305.9 Meh
ISBN: 9780374276027
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
The Burning by Tim Madigan; Timothy J. Madigan
Call Number: 976.6 Mad
ISBN: 9780312272838
Publication Date: 2001-11-02
Dressed in Dreams by Tanisha C. Ford
Call Number: 391 For
ISBN: 9781250173539
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues by Monique W. Morris
Call Number: 371.829 Mor
ISBN: 9781620973998
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: 305.5 WIL
ISBN: 9780593230251
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: 305.8 Rot
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: 305.48 Ber
ISBN: 9780807033555
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Call Number: B Cleaver
ISBN: 9780385333795
Publication Date: 1999-01-12
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Call Number: B MOORE
ISBN: 9780385528207
Publication Date: 2011-01-11
I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
Call Number: GN B GHARIB
ISBN: 9780525575115
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Call Number: 305.8 Ach
ISBN: 9781250800466
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands
Call Number: 326 Bra
ISBN: 9780385544009
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
A Peculiar Indifference by Elliott Currie
Call Number: 305.8 Cur
ISBN: 9781250769930
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: 973 Fou
ISBN: 9780593134047
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Call Number: 305.8 Jos
ISBN: 9781536217018
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Call Number: 305.8 McG
ISBN: 9780525509561
Publication Date: 2021-02-16
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: 364 Ale
ISBN: 9781620975459
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
Call Number: 976.6 Col
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: 305.896 Bro
ISBN: 9781524760854
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Call Number: 306.3 MIL
ISBN: 9781984854995
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)