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SOS and SEL Resources: Social Justice & Activism - Non-fiction

Non-fiction

Bad Houses by Sara Ryan; Sierra Hahn (Editor)
ISBN: 9781621158295
Publication Date: 2013-11-12
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 305.80 COA
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: B WOODSON
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
ISBN: 9781555976903
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
ISBN: 9780312661052
Publication Date: 2010-12-21
Defiance by Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596432925
Publication Date: 2011-07-19
Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab; Jackie Roche (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781770859821
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; James D. Houston; James A. Houston
Call Number: B HOUSTON
ISBN: 9780618216208
Publication Date: 2002-04-29
Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum
ISBN: 9780792241737
Publication Date: 2005-12-27
Gaijin American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner
ISBN: 9781368054164
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Debbie Reese (Adapted by); Jean Mendoza (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9780807049396
Publication Date: 2019-07-23

Non-fiction

Glimmer of Hope by The March for Our Lives Founders
Call Number: 363.33 MAR
ISBN: 9781984836090
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina; Stacey Robinson (Illustrator); John Jennings (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781620142639
Publication Date: 2017-10-15
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)
Call Number: B YOUSAFZAI
ISBN: 9780316322409
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson (As told to)
Call Number: 362.88 PRO
ISBN: 9781534414433
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Illegal by Eoin Colfer; Andrew Donkin; Giovanni Rigano (Illustrator)
Call Number: 741.5 COL
ISBN: 9781492662143
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: B STEVENSON
ISBN: 9780525580041
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Kid Activists by Robin Stevenson; Allison Steinfeld (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781683691419
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
March by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
Call Number: GRAPHIC 323.119 LEW
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GRAPHIC 323.119 LEW
ISBN: 1603093001
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: 323.119 LEW
ISBN: 9781603094009
Publication Date: 2015-01-20

Non-fiction

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad; Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781728209807
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Our Stories, Our Voices by Amy Reed (Editor); Ellen Hopkins; Stephanie Kuehnert; Anna-Marie McLemore; Sandhya Menon; Hannah Moskowitz; Julie Murphy; Aisha Saeed; Jenny Torres Sanchez; Martha Brockenbrough; Amber Smith; Nina LaCour; Jaye Robin Brown; Ilene (I. W. ) Gregorio; Sona Charaipotra; Tracy Deonn; Brandy Colbert; Somaiya Daud; Christine Day; Alexandra Duncan; Maurene Goo
Call Number: 305.42 OUR
ISBN: 9781534408999
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Parkland by Dave Cullen
Call Number: 371.7 CUL
ISBN: 9780062882943
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer; Michelle Alexander (Foreword by); Sabrina Jones
ISBN: 9781595585417
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
Resist by Veronica Chambers; Tracy Turnbull (Illustrator); Paul Ryding (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062796257
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Resistance by Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596432918
Publication Date: 2010-04-27
Saints by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator); Lark Pien (Inked or colored by)
Call Number: GRAPHIC 741.597 YAN
ISBN: 9781596436893
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
Call Number: B ANDERSON
ISBN: 9780670012107
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long; Jim Demonakos; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250164988
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
The Stonewall Riots by Gayle E. Pitman
ISBN: 9781419737206
Publication Date: 2019-05-14

Non-fiction

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; Justin Eisinger; Steven Scott; Harmony Becker (Illustrator)
Call Number: GRAPHIC B TAKEI
ISBN: 9781603094504
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
Troublemaker for Justice by Michael G. Long; Jacqueline Houtman; Walter Naegle
ISBN: 9780872867659
Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Victory by Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596432932
Publication Date: 2012-07-17
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763678845
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780525580454
Publication Date: 2019-12-31
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele
Call Number: 323 KHA
ISBN: 9781250171085
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad
ISBN: 9781449489427
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
You Are Mighty by Caroline Paul; Lauren Tamaki (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781681198224
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Yummy by G. Neri; Randy Du Burke (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781584302674
Publication Date: 2010-08-01