2023 NSSTB

Book recommendations from social studies educators for librarians, booksellers, educators, parents, and guardians of the best children’s books with social studies content in 2022.

 
Eighteen Vats of Water

Eighteen Vats of Water

By: Ji-li Jiang
Illustrated by:
Nadia Hsieh
ISBN: 9781954354067
Fiction, 7-12, Music / Art
 
African Town

African Town

By: Charles Waters and Irene Latham
ISBN: 9780593322888
Fiction, Teen, Historical Fiction
 
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

By: Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
Illustrated by:
Steffi Walthall
ISBN: 9780358387268
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

Alias Anna

By: Susan Hood
ISBN: 9780063083899
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
All Through the Night: Important Jobs That Get Done at Night

All Through the Night

By: Polly Faber
Illustrated by:
Harriet Hobday
ISBN: 9781536227512
Fiction, 4-6, Mental/Physical Health
 
Alte Zachen / Old Things

Alte Zachen / Old Things

By: Ziggy Hanaor
Illustrated by:
Benjamin Phillips
ISBN: 9781800660229
Fiction, 7-12, Religion
 
An ABC of Democracy

An ABC of Democracy

By: Nancy Shapiro
Illustrated by:
Paulina Morgan
ISBN: 9780711264793
Nonfiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman, World-class Swimmer, Fashion Pioneer, and Real-life Mermaid

Annette Feels Free

By: Katie Mazeika
Illustrated by:
Katie Mazeika
ISBN: 9781665903431
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Attack of the Black Rectangles

Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: A. S. King
ISBN: 9781338680522
Fiction, 7-12, Contemporary
 
Baseball Around the World: How the World Plays the Game

Baseball Around the World

By: Chris Singleton and Dean Burrell
ISBN: 9781638190912
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Because of You, John Lewis

Because of You, John Lewis

By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrated by:
Keith Henry Brown
ISBN: 9781338759082
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
The Best Kind of Mooncake

The Best Kind of Mooncake

By: Pearl AuYeung
Illustrated by:
Pearl AuYeung
ISBN: 9781645675563
Fiction, 4-6, Historical Fiction
 
Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

Better Than We Found It

By: Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph
ISBN: 9781536224528
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
Black Boy, Black Boy

Black Boy, Black Boy

By: Ali Kamanda and Jorge Redmond
Illustrated by:
Ken Daley
ISBN: 9781728250649
Nonfiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Black Trailblazers: 30 Courageous Visionaries Who Broke Boundaries, Made a Difference, and Paved the Way

Black Trailblazers

By: Bijan Bayne
Illustrated by:
Joelle Avelino
ISBN: 9781524874773
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Blue

Blue

By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Illustrated by:
Daniel Minter
ISBN: 9781984894366
Nonfiction, 4-6, Music / Art
 
The Bluest Sky

The Bluest Sky

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780593372791
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
Bold Words from Black Women: Inspiration and Truths from 50 Extraordinary Leaders Who Helped Shape Our World

Bold Words from Black Women

By: Tamara Pizzoli
Illustrated by:
Monica Ahanonu
ISBN: 9781534463943
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, Contemporary
 
Carrimebac, the Town That Walked

Carrimebac, the Town That Walked

By: David Barclay Moore
Illustrated by:
John Holyfield
ISBN: 9781536213690
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)

Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780593427941
Nonfiction, Teen, Contemporary
 
Cher Ami: Based on the World War I Legend of the Fearless Pigeon

Cher Ami

By: Mélisande Potter
Illustrated by:
Giselle Potter
ISBN: 9780316335348
Nonfiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Choosing Brave

By: Angela Joy
Illustrated by:
Janelle Washington
ISBN: 9781250220950
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
The Code Breaker (Young Readers Edition): Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

The Code Breaker (Young Readers Edition)

By: Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781665910668
Nonfiction, Teen, Science
 
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams

Curve & Flow

By: Andrea J. Loney
Illustrated by:
Keith Mallett
ISBN: 9780593429075
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
Daddy Speaks Love

Daddy Speaks Love

By: Leah Henderson
Illustrated by:
E. B. Lewis
ISBN: 9780593354360
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America

Don’t Look Back

By: Achut Deng and Keely Hutton
ISBN: 9780374389727
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Dragonfly Eyes

Dragonfly Eyes

By: Cao Wenxuan
ISBN: 9781536200188
Fiction, 7-12, Diversity
 
Evicted: The Struggle for the Right to Vote

Evicted

By: Alice Faye Duncan
Illustrated by:
Charly Palmer
ISBN: 9781684379798
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1955

Exploring Civil Rights

By: Nel Yomtov
ISBN: 9781338769722
Nonfiction, 7-12, Series
 
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1965

Exploring Civil Rights

By: Jay Leslie
ISBN: 9781338769845
Nonfiction, 7-12, Series
 
Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America

Fight

By: John Della Volpe
ISBN: 9781250260468
Nonfiction, Teen, Contemporary
 
The Founders Unmasked

The Founders Unmasked

By: Jennifer Sabin
ISBN: 9780593386101
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
Garvey in the Dark

Garvey in the Dark

By: Nikki Grimes
ISBN: 9781635925265
Fiction, 7-12, Music / Art
 
Gibberish

Gibberish

By: Young Vo
Illustrated by:
Young Vo
ISBN: 9781646141104
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son

Growing an Artist

By: John Parra
Illustrated by:
John Parra
ISBN: 9781534469273
Fiction, 4-6, Music / Art
 
H is for Harlem

H is for Harlem

By: Dinah Johnson
Illustrated by:
April Harrison
ISBN: 9780316322379
Nonfiction, 4-6, Music / Art
 
Hair to Share

Hair to Share

By: Sylvia Walker
ISBN: 9780593426883
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Hanged!: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Hanged!

By: Sarah Miller
ISBN: 9780593181560
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

By: David Treuer
ISBN: 9780593203477
Nonfiction, Teen, Background / Culture
 
Her Name was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence

Her Name was Mary Katharine

By: Ella Schwartz
Illustrated by:
Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9780316298322
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights

History Comics

By: Archie Bongiovanni
Illustrated by:
A. Andrews
ISBN: 9781250618351
Nonfiction, 7-12, LGBTQIA+
 
A History of Me

A History of Me

By: Adrea Theodore
Illustrated by:
Erin Robinson
ISBN: 9780823442577
Fiction, 4-6, Historical Fiction
 
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad

History Smashers

By: Kate Messner and Gwendolyn Hooks
Illustrated by:
Damon Smyth
ISBN: 9780593428931
Nonfiction, 7-12, Diversity
 
Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children

Hold Them Close

By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Illustrated by:
Patrick Dougher
ISBN: 9780063036178
Fiction, 4-6, Music / Art
 
Home: A Story of Two Children Thrust into Homelessness and Uncertain Housing Situations

Home

By: Tonya Lippert
Illustrated by:
Andrea Stegmaier
ISBN: 9781433836862
Fiction, 4-6, Mental/Physical Health
 
Honey and Me

Honey and Me

By: Meira Drazin
ISBN: 9781338155433
Fiction, 7-12, Coming of Age
 
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged

How We Can Win

By: Kimberly Jones
ISBN: 9781250805126
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
I am Muhammad Ali

I am Muhammad Ali

By: Brad Meltzer
Illustrated by:
Christopher Eliopoulos
ISBN: 9780593405857
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
I Hate Borsch!

I Hate Borsch!

By: Yevgenia Nayberg
Illustrated by:
Yevgenia Nayberg
ISBN: 9780802855800
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz

I Will Protect You

By: Eva Mozes Kor with Danica Davidson
ISBN: 9780316460637
Nonfiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
I’ll Go and Come Back

I’ll Go and Come Back

By: Rajani LaRocca
Illustrated by:
Sara Palacios
ISBN: 9781536207170
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
If You Were a Princess: True Stories of Brave Leaders from Around the World

If You Were a Princess

By: Hillary Homzie
Illustrated by:
Udayana Lugo
ISBN: 9781534456174
Nonfiction, 4-6, Contemporary
 
If You’re a Kid Like Gavin

If You’re a Kid Like Gavin

By: Gavin Grimm
Illustrated by:
J Yang
ISBN: 9780063057562
Nonfiction, 4-6, LGBTQIA+
 
In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of American Immigrants of Color

In the Spirit of a Dream

By: Aida Salazar
Illustrated by:
Alina Chau
ISBN: 9781338552874
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Isla to Island

Isla to Island

By: Alexis Castellanos
Illustrated by:
Alexis Castellanos
ISBN: 9781534469242
Fiction, Teen, Historical Fiction
 
It’s Up to Us: Building a Brighter Future for Nature, People & Planet (The Children’s Terra Carta)

It’s Up to Us

By: Chris Lloyd
Illustrated by:
33 different illustrators
ISBN: 9781913750565
Nonfiction, 7-12, Contemporary
 
Just Like Jesse Owens

Just Like Jesse Owens

By: Andrew Young and Paula Shelton Young
Illustrated by:
Gordon C. James
ISBN: 9780545554657
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
Kapaemahu

Kapaemahu

By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson
Illustrated by:
Daniel Sousa
ISBN: 9780593530061
Fiction, 4-6, Romance
 
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story

Keepunumuk

By: Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, and Alexis Bunten
Illustrated by:
Gary Meeches Sr.
ISBN: 9781623542900
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Kids Fight Climate Change: Act Now to be a #2minutesuperhero

Kids Fight Climate Change

By: Martin Dorey
Illustrated by:
Tim Wesson
ISBN: 9781536223484
Nonfiction, 7-12, Contemporary
 
A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

A Land of Books

By: Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419749421
Fiction, 4-6, Historical Fiction
 
The Legacy of Jim Crow

The Legacy of Jim Crow

By: Clarence A. Haynes
ISBN: 9780593385999
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth

A Life of Service

By: Christina Soontornvat
Illustrated by:
Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9781536222050
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Lines of Courage

Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
ISBN: 9781338620931
Fiction, 7-12, Teen, Historical Fiction
 
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions

Lion Lights

By: Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock
Illustrated by:
Sonia Possentini
ISBN: 9780884488859
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Lioness of Punjab

Lioness of Punjab

By: Anita Jari Kharbanda
ISBN: 9781949528718
Fiction, Teen, Coming of Age
 
Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta

Lola Out Loud

By: Jennifer Torres
Illustrated by:
Sara Palacios
ISBN: 9780316530125
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves

Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves

By: L. M. Elliott
ISBN: 9780063056565
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
Loyalty

Loyalty

By: Avi
ISBN: 9780358248071
Fiction, 7-12, History
 
Lunch from Home

Lunch from Home

By: Joshua David Stein
Illustrated by:
Jing Li
ISBN: 9780593384459
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Mae Jemison (Little People, BIG DREAMS Series)

Mae Jemison (Little People, BIG DREAMS Series)

By: Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Janna Morton
ISBN: 9780711270954
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
 
Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to Washington

Mama in Congress

By: Rashida Tlaib
Illustrated by:
Olivia Aserr
ISBN: 9780358683438
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Maya’s Song

Maya’s Song

By: Renée Watson
Illustrated by:
Bryan Collier
ISBN: 9780062871589
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
A Mermaid Girl

A Mermaid Girl

By: Sana Rafi
Illustrated by:
Olivia Aserr
ISBN: 9780593327609
Fiction, 4-6, Religion
 
A Mind Like Mine: 21 Famous People and Their Mental Health

A Mind Like Mine

By: Rachael Davis
Illustrated by:
Islenia Mil
ISBN: 9780711274013
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Mommy’s Hometown

Mommy’s Hometown

By: Hope Lim
Illustrated by:
Jaime Kim
ISBN: 9781536213324
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
More Than Peach (Bellen Woodard Original Picture Book)

More Than Peach (Bellen Woodard Original Picture Book)

By: Bellen Woodard
Illustrated by:
Fanny Liem
ISBN: 9781338809275
Nonfiction, 4-6, Contemporary
 
Morning Sun in Wuhan

Morning Sun in Wuhan

By: Ying Chang Compestine
ISBN: 9780358572053
Fiction, 7-12, Contemporary
 
Mother Goose Goes to India

Mother Goose Goes to India

By: Kabir and Surishtha Sehgal
Illustrated by:
Wazza Pink
ISBN: 9781534439603
Fiction, 4-6, Animals
 
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

Muhammad Najem, War Reporter

By: Muhammad Najem and Nora Neus
Illustrated by:
Julie Robine
ISBN: 9780759556898
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
My Bindi

My Bindi

By: Gita Varadarajan
Illustrated by:
Archana Sreenivasan
ISBN: 9781338598810
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
My Nest of Silence

My Nest of Silence

By: Matt Faulkner
Illustrated by:
Matt Faulkner
ISBN: 9781534477629
Fiction, Teen, Diversity
 
My Town / Mi Pueblo

My Town / Mi Pueblo

By: Nicholas Solis
Illustrated by:
Luisa Uribe
ISBN: 9780593109915
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Nana, Nenek & Nina

Nana, Nenek & Nina

By: Liza Ferneyhough
ISBN: 9780593353943
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
New from Here

New from Here

By: Kelly Yang
ISBN: 9781534488304
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
A New History of Immigration

A New History of Immigration

By: Jaclyn Backhaus
ISBN: 9780593386125
Nonfiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border

The Notebook Keeper

By: Stephen Briseño
Illustrated by:
Magdalena Mora
ISBN: 9780593307052
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Omar Rising

Omar Rising

By: Aisha Saeed
ISBN: 9780593108581
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
One Sun and Countless Stars: A Muslim Book of Numbers

One Sun and Countless Stars

By: Hena Khan
Illustrated by:
Mehrdokht Amini
ISBN: 9781452182728
Fiction, 4-6, Religion
 
One Wish: Fatima al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University

One Wish

By: M. O. Yuksel
Illustrated by:
Mariam Quraishi
ISBN: 9780063032910
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Our Story Starts in Africa

Our Story Starts in Africa

By: Patrice Lawrence
Illustrated by:
Jeanetta Gonzales
ISBN: 9781419760228
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Our World of Dumplings

Our World of Dumplings

By: Francie Dekker
Illustrated by:
Sarah Jung
ISBN: 9781499812343
Fiction, 7-12, Mental/Physical Health
 
A Pandemic Is Worldwide

A Pandemic Is Worldwide

By: Sarah L. Thomson
Illustrated by:
Taia Morley
ISBN: 9780063086265
Nonfiction, 4-6, Mental/Physical Health
 
Parks for the People: How Frederick Law Olmsted Designed America

Parks for the People

By: Elizabeth Partridge
Illustrated by:
Becca Stadtlander
ISBN: 9781984835154
Nonfiction, 4-6,History
 
Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together

Peace Is a Chain Reaction

By: Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN: 9780763676865
Nonfiction, 7-12, Teen, History
 
Pink, Blue, and You!: Questions for Kids about Gender Stereotypes

Pink, Blue, and You!

By: Elise Gravel and Mykaell Blais
ISBN: 9780593178638
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Playing with Lanterns

Playing with Lanterns

By: Wang Yage
Illustrated by:
Zhu Chengliang
ISBN: 9781542029841
Fiction, 7-12, Diversity
 
The Poem Forest: Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch

The Poem Forest

By: Carrie Fountain
Illustrated by:
Chris Turnham
ISBN: 9781536211269
Nonfiction, 4-6, Poetry
 
Rain Rising

Rain Rising

By: Courtne Comrie
ISBN: 9780063159730
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School

Respect the Mic

By: Peter Kahn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Dan "Sully" Sullivan, and Franny Choi
ISBN: 9780593226810
Nonfiction, Teen, Poetry
 
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Revolution in Our Time

By: Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9781536214185
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

Rima’s Rebellion

By: Margarita Engle
ISBN: 9781534486935
Fiction, Teen, Romance
 
Rise Up with a Song: The True Story of Ethel Smyth, Suffragette Composer

Rise Up with a Song

By: Diane Worthey
Illustrated by:
Helena Pérez García
ISBN: 9781638191315
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women

Sanctuary

By: Christine McDonnell
Illustrated by:
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
ISBN: 9781536211290
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao

The Secret Battle of Evan Pao

By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang
ISBN: 9781338678857
Fiction, 7-12, Coming of Age
 
A Seed in the Sun

A Seed in the Sun

By: Aida Salazar
ISBN: 9780593406601
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Seen and Unseen

By: Elizabeth Partridge
Illustrated by:
Lauren Tamaki
ISBN: 9781452165103
Nonfiction, 7-12, Music / Art
 
She Persisted: Coretta Scott King

She Persisted

By: Kelly Starling Lyons and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593353523
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
She Persisted: Wangari Maathai

She Persisted

By: Eucabeth Odhiambo and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593353585
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
Some Kind of Hate

Some Kind of Hate

By: Sarah Darer Littman
ISBN: 9781338746815
Fiction, 7-12, Religion
 
Something Happened to My Dad: A Story About Immigration and Family Separation

Something Happened to My Dad

By: Ann Hazzard and Vivianne Apponte Rivera
Illustrated by:
Gloria Felix
ISBN: 9781433839443
Fiction, 4-6, Mental/Physical Health
 
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington

A Song for the Unsung

By: Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
Illustrated by:
Byron McCray
ISBN: 9781250779502
Nonfiction, 4-6, LGBTQIA+
 
Song in the City

Song in the City

By: Daniel Bernstrom
Illustrated by:
Jenin Mohammed
ISBN: 9780063011120
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
Spearhead (Adapted for Young Adults)

Spearhead (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: Adam Makos
ISBN: 9780593303450
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
 
Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote

Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote

By: Traci N. Todd
Illustrated by:
Laura Freeman
ISBN: 9780063139770
Nonfiction, 4-6, Contemporary
 
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

Stand Up!

By: Brittney Cooper
Illustrated by:
Cathy Ann Johnson
ISBN: 9781338763850
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

Standing in the Need of Prayer

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
Frank Morrison
ISBN: 9780593306345
Fiction, 7-12, Religion
 
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Star Child

By: Ibi Zoboi
ISBN: 9780399187384
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sweet Justice

By: Mara Rockliff
Illustrated by:
R. Gregory Christie
ISBN: 9781524720643
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
The Talk

The Talk

By: Alicia D. Williams
Illustrated by:
Briana Uchendu
ISBN: 9781534495296
Fiction, 4-6, Contemporary
 
That’s Betty!: The Story of Betty White

That’s Betty!

By: Gregory Bonsignore
Illustrated by:
Jennifer M. Potter
ISBN: 9781250796608
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
Thirst

Thirst

By: Varsha Bajaj
ISBN: 9780593354391
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
This Book Will Save the Planet: A Climate-Justice Primer for Activists and Changemakers

This Book Will Save the Planet

By: Dany Sigwalt
Illustrated by:
Aurélia Durand
ISBN: 9780711268890
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
This Little Voter

This Little Voter

By: Ann Bonnie
Illustrated by:
Carol Herring
ISBN: 9781499813241
Fiction, 4-6, Contemporary
 
Three Sisters: A Novel

Three Sisters

By: Heather Morris
ISBN: 9781250276896
Fiction, Teen, Religion
 
To the Front: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam

To the Front

By: Claudia Friddell
Illustrated by:
Christopher Cyr
ISBN: 9781635923223
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
 
Too Small Tola and the Three Fine Girls

Too Small Tola and the Three Fine Girls

By: Atinuke
Illustrated by:
Onyinye Iwu
ISBN: 9781536225174
Fiction, 7-12, Prose, Diversity
 
‘Twas the Night Before Pride

‘Twas the Night Before Pride

By: Joanna McClintick
Illustrated by:
Juana Medina
ISBN: 9781536213430
Fiction, 4-6, LGBTQIA+
 
Two Degrees

Two Degrees

By: Alan Gratz
ISBN: 9781338735673
Fiction, 7-12, Science
 
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code

Unbreakable

By: Rebecca E. F. Barone
ISBN: 9781250814203
Nonfiction, Teen, History
 
Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus)

Unlawful Orders

By: Barbara Binns
ISBN: 9781338754261
Fiction, 7-12, History
 
Vinyl Moon

Vinyl Moon

By: Mahogany L. Browne
ISBN: 9780593176436
Fiction, Teen, Coming of Age
 
The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found

The Waiting Place

By: Dina Nayeri
Illustrated by:
Anna Bosch Miralpeix
ISBN: 9781536213621
Nonfiction, 7-12, Contemporary
 
We All Celebrate

We All Celebrate

By: Chitra Soundar
Illustrated by:
Jenny Bloomfield
ISBN: 9781910328897
Nonfiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
We Are Wolves

We Are Wolves

By: Katrina Nannestad
ISBN: 9781665904223
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
We Have a Dream: Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Color Protecting the Planet

We Have a Dream

By: Mya-Rose Craig
Illustrated by:
Sabrena Khadija
ISBN: 9781419756665
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
 
We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963

We Were the Fire

By: Shelia P. Moses
ISBN: 9780593407486
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
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What Is Juneteenth? (What Was? Series)

By: Kirsti Jewel
ISBN: 9780593384695
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
 
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What the Fact?

By: Seema Yasmin
ISBN: 9781665900034
Nonfiction, Teen, Contemporary
 
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When the Schools Shut Down

By: Yolanda Gladden
Illustrated by:
Keisha Morris
ISBN: 9780063011168
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
 
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When Winter Robeson Came

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ISBN: 9781524741587
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
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Wilma Mankiller (Little People, BIG DREAMS Series)

By: Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
Alexandra Bowman
ISBN: 9780711271203
Nonfiction, 4-6, History
 
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Wishing Upon the Same Stars

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ISBN: 9780063034389
Fiction, 7-12, Background / Culture
 
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With Lots of Love

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Illustrated by:
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ISBN: 9780593205006
Fiction, 4-6, Background / Culture
 
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The Witness Blanket

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ISBN: 9781459836129
Nonfiction, 7-12, Music / Art
 
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Illustrated by:
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ISBN: 9780399545535
Fiction, 4-6, Mental/Physical Health
 
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Yes We Will

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ISBN: 9780593463055
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
 
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You Sound Like a White Girl

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ISBN: 9781250787019
Nonfiction, Teen, History
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