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What We're Reading, 2024–2025 School Year

Published December 1, 2025

Here on The Morning Bell, we regularly share reading recommendations for students of all ages that cover different themes, portray diverse characters, and explore a variety of genres. From the first day of school to summer reading, the books below are all available alongside thousands of other titles on Sora, our citywide Digital Library which provides free access to hundreds of digital e-books and audiobooks for our students.

April 2024 – August 2025

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Hike By Pete Oswald
  • In the Garden with Dr. Carver By Susan Grigsby
    Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell
  • Our Green City By Tanya Lloyd Kyi
    Illustrated by Colleen Larmour
  • She Heard the Birds: The Story of Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneering Nature Activist By Andrea D'Aquino
  • Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist By Jess Keating
    Illustrated by Marta Álvarez Miguéns
  • Zonia's Rainforest By Juana Martinez-Neal

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • A Green Place to Be: The Creating of Central Park By Ashley Benham Yazdani
  • Elsie Mae Has Something to Say By Nancy J. Cavanaugh
  • Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet By Valentina Camerini
  • Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee
  • The Last Bear By Hannah Gold
  • The Last Beekeeper By Pablo Cartaya

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson By Ann E. Burg
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
  • Me and Marvin Gardens By Amy Sarig King
  • One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet By Anuradha Rao
  • Paradise on Fire By Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • The Story of Seeds By Nancy F. Castaldo
  • World Without Fish By Mark Kurlansky
    Illustrated by Frank Stockton

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • The Carbon Diaries 2015 By Saci Lloyd
  • Don't Call Me A Hurricane By Ellen Hagan
  • Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save the Planet By Diana Kapp
    Illustrated by Ana Jarén
  • How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other By Naomi Klein
  • It's Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change By Bridget Heos
  • The Line Tender By Kate Allen

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Spend It! By Cinders McLeod
  • Little Daymond Learns to Earn By Daymond John

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Get To Know: Money By Kalpana Fitzpatrick
  • Sam the Incredible Inventor By Alan Trussell-Cullen

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid By Mikaila Ulmer
  • How to Turn $100 Into $1,000,000 By James McKenna and Jeannine Glista; with Matt Fontaine

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Cash is Queen By Davinia Tomlinson
    Illustrated by Andrea Oerter
  • Undecided: Navigating Life and Learning After High School By Genevieve Morgan

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Change Sings: A Children's Anthem By Amanda Gorman
    Illustrated by Loren Long
  • How to Write a Poem By Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido
    Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
  • Kiyoshi's Walk By Mark Karlins
    Illustrated by Nicole Wong

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Color of My Words By Lynn Joseph
  • Land of the Cranes By Aida Salazar
  • Words With Wings By Nikki Grimes

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • All He Knew By Helen Frost
  • Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson
  • Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science By Jeannine Atkins

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • An Appetite for Miracles By Laekan Zea Kemp
  • The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners By Naomi Shihab Nye

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • A Letter to My Teacher By Deborah Hopkinson
    Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
  • Dear Teacher: A Celebration of People Who Inspire Us By Paris Rosenthal
    Illustrated by Holly Hatam
  • Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and her Secret School By Janet Halfmann
    Illustrated by London Ladd

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball By John Coy
    Illustrated by Joe Morse
  • The Teacher's March! How Selma's Teachers Changed History By Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace
  • Thank You, Mr. Falker By Patricia Polacco

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Because of Mr. Terupt By Rob Buyea
  • Love That Dog By Sharon Creech
  • Sahara Special By Esme Raji Codell

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Between the Lines By Nikki Grimes
  • Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey By Akiko Higashimura
  • Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels who Helped Spark a Revolution By Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective By Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett
    Illustrated by Marissa Valdez
  • Out of a Jar By Deborah Marcero
  • The Princess and the Fog By Anthony Lloyd Jones
  • The Worry Balloon By Mónica Mancillas
    Illustrated by Betty C. Tang
  • When Sadness is At Your Door By Eva Eland

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • A Mind Like Mine By Rachael Davis
    Illustrated by Islenia Mil
  • Five Things About Ava Andrews By Margaret Dilloway
  • Just Roll with It By Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie
  • Moonflower By Kacen Callender
  • The Grip By Marcus Stroman with Samantha Thornhill

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Good Enough By Jen Petro-Roy
  • How to Become a Planet By Nicole Melleby
  • Mirror to Mirror By Rajani LaRocca
  • OCDaniel By Wesley King
  • The Summer of June By Jamie Sumner

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • (Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health Edited by Kelly Jensen
  • Hungry Ghost By Victoria Ying
  • The Memory of Light By Francisco X. Stork
  • Turtles All the Way Down By John Green
  • Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Billie Jean! How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports By Mara Rockliff
    Illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
  • Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles By Michelle Meadows
    Illustrated by Ebony Glenn
  • Jim Thorpe's Bright Path By Joseph Bruchac
    Illustrated by S. D. Nelson
  • Something to Prove: The Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe DiMaggio By Rob Skead
    Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero By Doreen Rappaport
  • Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII By Marissa Moss
    Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
  • Breaking the Ice: The True Story of the First Woman to Play in the National Hockey League By Angie Bullaro
    Illustrated by C.F. Payne
  • A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttman Created the Paralympic Games By Lori Alexander
    Illustrated by Allan Drummond

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
  • Fast Pitch By Nic Stone
  • Taking Up Space By Alyson Gerber
  • One Life: Young Reader's Edition By Megan Rapinoe

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Furia By Yamile Saied Méndez
  • Here to Stay By Sara Farizan
  • Rez Ball By Byron Graves
  • Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke, the First Openly Gay MLB Player and Inventor of the High-Five By Andrew Maraniss

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Goodnight Goat/Bonnwit Kabrit By Elizabeth Turnbull
    Illustrated by Erin Vaganos
  • Haiti A to Z: Bilingual ABC Book About the Pearl of Antilles By M.J. Fievre
    Illustrated by Anastasia Khmelevska
  • Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope By Youme Landowne

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings By Francie Latour
    Illustrated by Ken Daley
  • My Day with the Panye By Tami Charles
    Illustrated by Sara Palacios
  • Open the Door to Liberty: A Biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture By Anne Rockwell
    Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Behind the Mountains By Edwidge Danticat
  • Serafina's Promise By Ann E. Burg
  • The Year I Flew Away By Marie Arnold

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • American Street By Ibi Zoboi
  • Dear Haiti, Love Alaine By Maika and Maritza Moulite
  • Hold Tight, Don't Let Go: A Novel of Haiti By Laura Rose Wagner

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa By Veronica Chambers
    Illustrated By Julie Maren
  • Malaika's Costume By Nadia L. Hohn
    Illustrated By Irene Luxbacher
  • Starting Over in Sunset Park By José Pelaez and Lynn McGee
    Illustrated By Bianca Diaz

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Eight Days: A Story of Haiti By Edwidge Danticat
    Illustrated By Alix Delinois
  • The Jumbies By Tracey Baptiste
  • Marti's Song for Freedom By Emma Otheguy
    Illustrated By Beatriz Vidal

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Josephine Against the Sea By Shakirah Bourne
  • Rooting for Raphael Rosales By Kurtis Scaletta
  • When Life Gives You Mangos By Kereen Getten

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic By Debbie Rigaud
  • Hurricane Summer By Asha Ashanti Bromfield
  • Where the Rhythm Takes You By Sarah Dass

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs By Kate Messner
    Illustrated By Matthew Forsythe
  • Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle By Claire A. Nivola
  • Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret By Jess Keating
    Illustrated By Katie Hickey
  • Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story About an Amazing Swimmer By Lynne Cox
    Illustrated By Richard Jones

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Bayou Magic By Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee
  • Water is Water By Miranda Paul
    Illustrated By Jason Chin
  • We are Water Protectors By Carole Lindstrom
    Illustrated By Michaela Goade

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Line Tender By Kate Allen
  • Oceans of Plastic: Understanding and Solving a Pollution Problem By Tracey Gray
  • The Wild Robot Protects By Peter Brown
  • World Without Fish By Mark Kurlansky
    Illustrated By Frank Stockton

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Don't Call Me A Hurricane By Ellen Hagan
  • Dry By Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
  • Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan Fought for their LIves and Warned the Nation By Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson
  • Whale Quest: Working Together to Save Endangered Species By Karen Romano Young

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Areli is a Dreamer: A True Story By Areli Morales
    Illustrated By Luisa Aribe
  • The Cot in the Living Room By Hilda Eunice Burgos
    Illustrated By GaBy D'Alessandro
  • Dreamers By Yuyi Morales
  • Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story By Lesléa Newman
    Illustrated By Amy June Bates
  • Home is in Between By Mitali Perkins
    Illustrated By Lavanya Naidu
  • Maribel's Year By Michelle Sterling
    Illustrated By Sarah Gonzales

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Becoming Kid Quixote: A True Story of Belonging in America (A Young Readers' Companion) By Sarah Sierra and Stephen Haff
  • First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
    Illustrated By Agata Nowicka
  • Front Desk By Kelly Yang
  • Land of the Cranes By Aida Salazar
  • Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist By Julie Leung
    Illustrated By Chris Sasaki
  • Sugar in Milk By Thrity Umrigar
    Illustrated By Khoa Le

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen (Young Readers' Edition) By Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Efrén Divided By Ernesto Cisneros
  • Everything Sad is Untrue By Daniel Nayeri
  • In the Beautiful Country By Jane Kuo
  • Santiago's Road Home By Alexandra Diaz
  • When Clouds Touch Us By Thanhhà Lại

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Almost American Girl By Robin Ha
  • Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card By Sara Saedi
  • Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home edited By Adi Alsaid
  • Dream Country By Shannon Gibney
  • Sanctuary By Paola Mendoza and AbBy Sher
  • Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything By Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring By Matthew Burgess
    Illustrated By Josh Cochran
  • Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders By Sarah Prager
    Illustrated By Cheryl Thuesday
  • Phoenix Gets Greater By Marty Wilson-Trudeau, with Phoenix Wilson
    Illustrated By Megan Kyak-Monteith
  • Ritu Weds Chandni By Ameya Narvankar
  • A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, The Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington By Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
    Illustrated By Byron McCray

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Answers in the Pages By David Levithan
  • A High Five for Glenn Burke By Phil Bildner
  • Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World By Ashley Herring Blake
  • This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us Edited By Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
  • Twelfth By Janet Key

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Alice Austen Lived Here By Alex Gino
  • In the Key of Us By Mariama J. Lockington
  • The Insiders By Mark Oshiro
  • Nikhil Out Loud By Maulik Pancholy
  • A Queer History of the United States for Young People By Michael Bronski; adapted By Richie Chevat

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue By George M. Johnson
  • Felix Ever After By Kacen Callender
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo
  • Songs of Irie By Asha Ashanti Bromfield
  • Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights By Ann Bausum

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Beach Hair By Ashley Woodfolk
    Illustrated By Niña Mata
  • How to Code a Sandcastle By Josh Funk
    Illustrated By Sara Palacios
  • Natsumi’s Song of Summer By Robert Paul Weston
    Illustrated By Misa Saburi
  • Paletero Man By Lucky Diaz
    Illustrated By Micah Player
  • Saffron Ice Cream By Rashin Kheiriyeh
  • The Summer Nick Taught His Cats to Read By Curtis Manley
    Illustrated By Kate Berube

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Braid Girls By Sherri Winston
  • Caterpillar Summer By Gillian McDunn
  • Much Ado About Baseball By Rajani LaRocca
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan
  • Silver Meadows Summer By Emma Otheguy
  • Stand Up, Yumi Chung By Jessica Kim

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Camp Famous By Jennifer Blecher
  • My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich By Ibi Zoboi
  • Not Starring Zadie Louise By Joy McCullough
  • Samira’s Worst Best Summer By Nina Hamza
  • Starfish By Lisa Fipps
  • The Summer of June By Jamie Sumner

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Camp By L.C. Rosen
  • The Ghosts of Rose Hill By R.M. Romero
  • Give Me a Sign By Anna Sortino
  • The Queens of New York By E.L. Shen
  • The Summer of Bitter and Sweet By Jen Ferguson
  • Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous By Suzanne Park

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Day You Begin By Jacqueline Woodson
    Illustrated By Rafael López
  • First Day Jitters By Julie Danneberg
    Illustrated By Judy Love
  • Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School By Emily Jenkins
    Illustrated By Pete Oswald

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Boy at the Back of the Class By Onjali Q. Raúf
  • The Unteachables By Gordon Korman
  • Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen By Kate McGovern

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The 47 People You'll Meet in Middle School By Kristin Mahoney
  • Free Lunch By Rex Ogle
  • Muddle School By Dave Whamond

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Pretty in Punxatawney By Laurie Boyle Crompton
  • The Silence Between Us By Alison Gervais
  • Where You See Yourself By Clair Forrest

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln By Margarita Engle
    Illustrated By Rafael López
  • Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion By Shannon Stocker
    Illustrated By Devon Holzwarth
  • Mary Blair’s Unique Flair: The Girl Who Became One of the Disney Legends By Amy Novesky
    Illustrated By Brittney Lee
  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat By Javaka Steptoe

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Draw What You See: The Life and Art of Benny Andrews By Kathleen Benson
    Illustrated with paintings By Benny Andrews
  • In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage By Alan Schroeder
    Illustrated By JaeMe Bereal
  • Irving Berlin: the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing By Nancy Churnin
    Illustrated By James Rey Sanchez
  • My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey By Lesa Cline-Ransome
    Illustrated By James E. Ransome

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Art in Action: Make a Statement, Change Your World By Matthew “Levee” Chavez
  • Lights, Camera, Disaster By Erin Dionne
  • Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers’ Edition) By Misty Copeland
  • Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein By Susan Goldman Rubin

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Blood Water Paint By Joy McCullough
  • If I Ever Get Out of Here By Eric Gansworth
  • On The Come Up By Angie Thomas
  • This Is What I Know About Art By Kimberly Drew
    Illustrated By Ashely Lukashevsky

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Lillian’s Right to Vote By Jonah Winter
    Illustrated By Shane W. Evans
  • Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women’s Right to Vote By Dean Robbins
    Illustrated By Nancy Zhang
  • The President of the Jungle By Andre Rodrigues, Larissa Ribeiro, Paula Desgualdo, Pedro Markun
  • V is for Voting By Kate Farrell
    Illustrated By Caitlin Kuhwald
  • Vote for Our Future By Margaret McNamara
    Illustrated By Micah Player

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote By Alice Faye Duncan
    Illustrated By Charly Palmer
  • Finish the Fight: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote By Veronica Chambers and the Saff of the New York Times
  • For Which We Stand: How Our Government Works and Why it Matters By Jeff Foster
    Illustrated By Julie McLaughlin
  • How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    Illustrated By Ziyue Chen
  • When You Grow Up to Vote: How Our Government Works for YOU By Eleanor Roosevelt with Michelle Markel
    Illustrated By Grace Lin

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Drawing the Vote: A Graphic Novel History for Future Voters By Tommy Jenkins
    Illustrated By Kati Lacker
  • Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box By Evette Dionne
  • The Woman’s Hour: Our Fight for the Right to Vote (Adapted for Young Readers) By Elaine Weiss
  • This is Our Constitution: What It Is and Why it Matters By Khizr Khan
  • You Call This Democracy? By Elizabeth Rusch

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America By Russell Freedman
  • One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (A Young Adult Adaptation) By Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
  • Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights By Lawrence Goldstone
  • Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot By Winifred Conkling
  • Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections By Jeff Fleischer

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • And Tango Makes Three By Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
    Illustrated By Henry Cole
  • I Am Jazz By Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
    Illustrated By Shelagh McNicholas
  • The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq By Jeannette Winter

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Baseball Saved Us By Ken Mochizuki
    Illustrated By Dom Lee
  • Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson
  • Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan By Jeannette Winter

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Drama By Raina Telgemeier
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry By Mildred D. Taylor
  • The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue By George M. Johnson
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank
  • Looking for Alaska By John Green

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Areli is a Dreamer, By Areli Morales
    Illustrated By Luisa Aribe
  • The Cot in the Living Room, By Hilda Eunice Burgos
    Illustrated By GaBy D'Alessandro
  • If Your BaBysitter is a Bruja, By Ana Siqueira
    Illustrated By Irena Freitas
  • Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, By Monica Brown
    Illustrated By Julie Paschkis

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Frizzy, By Claribel A. Ortega
  • Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers, By Juliet Menendez
  • Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family's Fight for Desegregation, By Duncan Tonatiuh
  • The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, By Adrianna Cuevas

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Isla to Island, By Alexis Castellanos
  • Iveliz Explains It All, By Andrea Beatriz Arango
  • The Last Cuentista, By Donna Barba Higuera
  • The Other Half of Happy, By Rebecca Balcárcel

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Cemetery Boys, By Aiden Thomas
  • Clap When you Land, By Elizabeth Acevedo
  • The Distance Between Us, By Reyna Grande
  • Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora, edited By Saraciea J. Fennel

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel By Dan Yaccarino
  • The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano By Elizabeth Rusch
    Illustrated By Marjorie Priceman

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop By Tamar Meir
    Illustrated By Yael Albert
  • The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became America’s Hero By Barb Rosenstock
    Illustrated By Terry Widener

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Granny Torrelli Makes Soup By Sharon Creech
  • Penny From Heaven By Jennifer L. Holm

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Blood Water Paint By Joy McCullough
  • The Long Run By James Acker

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • 10 Spooky Pumpkins By Gris Grimley
  • The Ghostly Carousel By Calef Brown
  • Gustavo, the Shy Ghost By Flavia Z. Drago
  • Zombelina By Kristyn Crow
    Illustrated By Molly Idle

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Ghoul Next Door By Cullen Bunn and Cat Farris
  • Scritch Scratch By Lindsay Currie
  • The Sleepover By Michael Regina
  • Witches of Brooklyn By Sophie Escabasse

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Hoodoo By Ronald L. Smith
  • Spirit Hunters By Ellen Oh
  • Thirteens By Kate Alice Marshall
  • The Witch Boy By Molly Knox Ostertag

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Burn Down, Rise Up By Vincent Tirado
  • Cemetery Boys By Aiden Thomas
  • The Taking of Jake Livingston By Ryan Douglass
  • These Witches Don’t Burn By Isabel Sterling

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote By Barb Rosenstock
    Illustrated By Sarah Green
  • I Voted: Making a Choice Makes a Difference By Mark Shulman
    Illustrated By Serge Bloch
  • Vote for Our Future By Margaret McNamara
    Illustrated By Micah Player

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
    Illustrated By Courtney A. Martin
  • Grace for President! By Kelly S. DiPucchio
    Illustrated By LeUyen Pham
  • When You Grow Up to Vote: How Our Government Works for YOU By Eleanor Roosevelt with Michelle Markel
    Illustrated By Grace Lin

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Drawing the Vote: A Graphic Novel History for Future Voters By Tommy Jenkins
    Illustrated By Kati Lacker
  • Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box By Evette Dionne
  • Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote By Susan Zimet and Todd Hasak-Lowy

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for their Rights By Mikki Kendall; A. D’Amico
  • One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (A Young Adult Adaptation) By Carole Anderson and Tonya Bolden
  • Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March By Lynda Blackmon-Lowery

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Coquí
    In the City
    By Nomar Perez
  • ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines By Dean Robbins
    Illustrated By Eric Velásquez
  • Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates By Jonah Winter
    Illustrated By Raúl Colón
  • Where Are You From By Yamile Saied Méndez
    Illustrated By Jamie Kim

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Grip By Marcus Stroman
  • Parrots Over Puerto Rico By Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Illustrated By Eric Velásquez
  • Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family’s Fight for Desegregation By Duncan Tonatiuh

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Iveliz Explains It All By Andrea Beatriz Arango
  • Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish By Pablo Cartaya
  • Silver Meadows Summer By Emma Otheguy
  • Tight By Torrey Maldonado

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Juliet Takes a Breath GabBy Rivera
  • Never Look Back By Lilliam Rivera
  • The Moonlit Vine By Elizabeth Santiago
  • When I Was Puerto Rican By Esmerelda Santiago

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Fry Bread By Kevin Noble Maillard
    Illustrated By Juana Martinez-Neal
  • On the Trapline By David Alexander Robertson
    Illustrated By Julie Flett
  • Powwow Day By Traci Sorell
    Illustrated By Madelyn Goodnight
  • We Are Water Protectors By Carole Lindstrom
    Illustrated By Michaela Goade

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Birchbark House By Louise Erdrich
  • JoJo Makoons: The Use-To-Be Best Friend By Dawn Quigley
    Illustrated By Tara Audibert
  • Sisters of the Neversea By Cynthia Leitich Smith
  • We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know By Traci Sorell
    Illustrated By Frané Lessac

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited By Cynthia Leitich Smtih
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) By Anton Trueur
  • The Sea in Winter By Christine Day
  • The Sea-Ringed World By María García Esperón
    Illustrated By Amanda Mijangos; translated By David Bowles

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted By Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza
  • Elatsoe By Darcie Little Badger
    Illustrated By Rovina Cai
  • Firekeeper’s Daughter By Angeline Boulley
  • Rez Ball By Byron Graves

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Boogie Boogie, Y’all By C. G. Esperanza
  • Feivel’s Flying Horses By Heidi Smith Hyde
    Illustrated By Joanna van der Sterre
  • Lost in the Library By Josh Funk
    Illustrated By Stevie Lewis
  • Our Subway BaBy By Peter Mercurio
    Illustrated By Leo Espinosa
  • Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Illustrated By R. Gregory Christie

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Bolivar By Sean Rubin
  • Dragons in a Bag By Zetta Elliot
  • From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler By E.L. Konigsburg
  • Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph By Roxanne Orgill
    Illustrated By Francis Vallejo
  • Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure By Nadja Spiegelman
    Illustrated By Sergio García Sánchez

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Long Ride By Marina Budhos
  • Remember Us By Jacqueline Woodson
  • Some Places More Than Others By Renée Watson
  • The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street By Karina Yan Glaser
  • When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • 145th Street: Short Stories By Walter Dean Myers
  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim By Patricia Park
  • The Making of Yolanda la Bruja By Lorraine Avila
  • They Both Die at the End By Adam Silvera
  • Vinyl Moon By Mahogany L. Browne

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer By Traci Sorell
    Illustrated By Natasha Donovan
  • Coding Capers: Luci and the Missing Robot By Angela Cleveland and Tamara Zentic
    Illustrated By Juan Manuel Moreno
  • A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon By Suzanne Slade
    Illustrated By Veronica Miller Jamison

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer By Emily Arnold McCully
  • Grace Hopper, Queen of Computer Code By Laurie Wallmark
    Illustrated By Katy Wu
  • Lauren Ipsum By Carlos Bueno

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Emmy in the Key of Code By Aimee Lucido
  • Jinxed By Amy McCulloch
  • Secret Coders By Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Girl Code By Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
  • Google It, A History of Google: How Two Students’ Mission to Organize the Internet Changed the World By Anna Crowley Redding
  • Warcross By Marie Lu

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History By Charlotte Nebres
    Illustrated By Alea Marley
  • Ice Cycle: Poems About the Life of Ice By Maria Gianferrari
    Illustrated By Jieting Chen
  • My Footprints By Bao Phi
    Illustrated By Basia Tran
  • The People Remember By Ibi Zoboi
    Illustrated By Loveis Wise
  • Winter Walk in the City By Cathy Goldberg Fishman
    Illustrated By Melanie Hall

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Escape from Aurora By Jamie Littler
  • The Forgotten Girl By India Hill Brown
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe By C.S. Lewis
  • The Lost Frost Girl By Amy Wilson
  • The Storyteller’s Candle By Lucía González
    Illustrated By Lulu Delacre

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Grace of Wild Things By Heather Fawcett
  • Greenglass House By Kate Milford
    Illustrated By Jaime Zollars
  • One Way or Another By Kara McDowell
  • The Stars Beneath Our Feet By David Barclay Moore
  • Tilly and the Bookwanderers By Anna James

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • The Enchanted Sonata By Heather Dixon Wallwork
  • Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
  • Recommended for You By Laura Silverman
  • Stealing Snow By Danielle Paige
  • Whiteout By Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Illustrated by James E. Ransome
  • Coretta By Coretta Scott King
    Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
  • Let the Children March By Monica Clark-Robinson
    Illustrated by Frank Morrison
  • March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World By Christine King Farris
    Illustrated by London Ladd
  • Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Doreen Rappaport
    Illustrated by Bryan Collier

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Martin Rising: Requiem for a King By Andrea Davis Pinkney
    Illustrated by Brian Pinkney
  • Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 By Alice Faye Duncan
    Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
  • More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom By Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
  • My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement By Willie Mae Brown
  • A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation By Barry Wittenstein
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day By Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
    Illustrated by Steffi Whitehall
  • Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours By Ann Bausum
  • Threads of Peace By Uma Krishnaswami
  • Troublemaker for Justice By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long
  • We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 By Shelia P. Moses

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • And We Rise By Erica Martin
  • Dear Martin By Nic Stone
  • Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States By Marke Bieschke
  • March: Book One By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March By Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, and Susan Buckley

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Lunar New Year Surprise By Jade Wang
    Illustrated By Tammy Do
  • Ruby’s Chinese New Year By Vickie Lee
    Illustrated By Joey Chou
  • Tomorrow is New Year’s Day By Aram Kim
  • Two New Years By Richard Ho
    Illustrated By Lynn Scurfield

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Boys Don’t Fry By Kimberly Lee
    Illustrated By Charlene Chua
  • Dragon Noodle Party: A Story of Chinese Zodiac Animals By Ying Chang Compestine
    Illustrated By Paula Pang
  • Friends are Friends, Forever By Dane Liu
    Illustrated By Lynn Scurfield
  • Nian, the Chinese New Year Dragon By Virginia Loh-Hagan; Timothy Banks

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Paper Dragons By Siobhan McDermott
  • The Year of the Dog By Grace Lin
  • When You Trap a Tiger By Tae Keller
  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon By Grace Lin

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Lunar New Year Love Story By Gene Luen Yang
    Illustrated By LeUyen Pham
  • Six Crimson Cranes By Elizabeth Lim
  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea By Axie Oh
  • The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet By Elizabeth SuneBy
    Illustrated By Rebecca Green
  • Our Green City By Tanya Lloyd Kyi
    Illustrated By Colleen Larmour
  • Solar Story: How One Community Lives Alongside the World’s Biggest Solar Plant By Allan Drummond

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth By Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
  • Earth Hour: A Lights-Out Event for Our Planet By Nanette Heffernan
    Illustrated By Bao Luu
  • Planet Power: Explore the World’s Renewable Energy By Stacy P. Clark
    Illustrated By Annalisa Beghelli

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
  • Forest World By Margarita Engle
  • Nowhere Better than Here By Sarah Guillory

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives By Albert Martin
  • Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality By Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
  • The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the US Government Over Climate Change By Elizabeth Rusch

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
  • Ellie May on Presidents’ Day By Hillary Homzie
    Illustrated By Jeffrey Ebbeler
  • Revolutionary Friends: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette By Selene Castrovilla
    Illustrated By Drazen Jozjan<
  • The Superlative A. Lincoln: Poems About Our 16th President By Eileen R. Meyer
    Illustrated By Dave Szalay

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon By Leonard S. Marcus
  • The Next President By Kate Messner and Adam Rex
  • President of the Whole Fifth Grade By Sherri Winston
  • Speaking of America By Jared Cohen
    Illustrated By Vivian Shih

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Exploring the White House By Kate Andersen Brower
  • Foundations of Our Nation: George Washington and the American Presidency By Michael Regan
  • The Making of America: Abraham Lincoln By Teri Kanefield
  • Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher By Jon Meacham

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty By Tonya Bolden
  • FDR and the American Crisis By Albert Marrin
  • The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (Young Reader's'Edition) By Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
  • Running By Natalia Sylvester

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage By Selina Alko
    Illustrated By Sean Qualls and Selina Alko
  • Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 By Helaine Becker
    Illustrated By Dow Phumiruk
  • Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams By Lesa Cline-Ransome
    Illustrated By James E. Ransome
  • When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop By Laban Carrick Hill
    Illustrated By Theodore Taylor III
  • The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist By Cynthia Levinson
    Illustrated By Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World By Charles R. Smith, Jr.
    Illustrated By Shane W. Evans
  • My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey By Lesa Cline-Ransom
    Illustrated By James Ransome
  • Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Illustrated By Eric Velasquez
  • Stitch By Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly Sews Her Way to Freedom By Connie Schofield-Morrison
    Illustrated By Elizabeth Zunon
  • Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas By Gwendolyn Hooks
    Illustrated By Colin Bootman

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from Slavery By Winifred Conkling
  • Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist & Civil Rights Activist By Rosita Stevens-Holsey and Terry Catasús Jennings
  • Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler By Ibi Zoboi
  • Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York By Amy Hill Hearth
  • This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality By Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre By Brandy Colbert
  • Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man By Tonya Bolden
  • The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer Activist, Spy By Peggy Caravantes
  • March By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
    Illustrated By Nate Powell
  • Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater By Ted Fox
    Illustrated By James Otis Smith

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • A Bear Called Paddington By Michael Bond
    Illustrated By Peggy Fortnum
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox By Roald Dahl
    Illustrated By Quentin Blake
  • Where the Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak
  • The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams
    Illustrated By William Nicholson

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • How to Train Your Dragon By Cressida Cowell
  • Mary Poppins By P.L. Travers
  • The Tale of Despereaux By Kate DiCamillo
    Illustrated By Timothy Basil Ering
  • The Wild Robot By Peter Brown

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Holes By Louis Sachar
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret By Brian Selznick
  • Out of My Mind By Sharon M. Draper
  • Wonder By R.J. Palacio

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
  • The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas
  • The Hobbit By J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Turtles all the Way Down By John Green

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots By Michael Rex
  • Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down By Andrea Davis Pinkney
    Illustrated By Brian Pinkney
  • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez By Andrea Beaty
    Illustrated By David Roberts
  • V is for Voting By Kate Farrell
    Illustrated By Caitlin Kuhwald
  • What Do You Do with A Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan By Chris Barton
    Illustrated By Ekua Holmes

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything By Annette Bay Pimentel
    Illustrated By Nabi H. Ali
  • Free for You and Me; What Our First Amendment Means By Christy Mihaly
    Illustrated By Manu Montoya
  • No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History edited By Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley
    Illustrated By Jeanette Bradley
  • A Small History of Disagreement By Claudio Fuentes
    Illustrated By Gabriela Lyon
  • Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez By Larry Dane Brimner
    Illustrated By Maya Gonzalez

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • A Good Kind of Trouble By Lisa Moore Ramée
  • March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine By Melba Pattillo Beals
    Illustrated By Frank Morrison
  • Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote By Susan Zimet and Todd Hasak-Lowy
  • The Constitution Decoded: A Guide to the Document that Shapes Our Nation By Katie Kennedy
    Illustrated By Ben Kirchner
  • Together We March: 25 Protest Movements that Marched into History By Leah Henderson
    Illustrated By Tyler Feder

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir By Malaka Gharib
  • Run (Book 1) By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
    Illustrated By L. Fury and Nate Powell
  • Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance edited By Bethany C. Morrow
  • Vote! Women’s Fight for Access to the Ballot Box By Coral Celeste Frazer
  • Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections By Jeff Fleischer

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Fiona’s Lace By Patricia Polacco
  • How to Catch a Leprechaun By Adam Wallace
    Illustrated By Andy Elkerton
  • The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic By Jennifer Thermes
  • Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children By Jonah Winter
    Illustrated By Nancy Carpenter

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Leprechaun in Late Winter By Mary Pope Osborne
  • My Journey to the Stars By Scott Kelly
    Illustrated By André Ceolin
  • The Storm Keeper’s Island By Catherine Doyle
  • Ten Days a Madwoman By Deborah Noyes

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11’s Third Man By Alex Irvine
    Illustrated By Ben Bishop
  • The Monsters of Rookhaven By Pádraig Kenny
    Illustrated By Edward Bettison
  • The Night Gardener By Jonathan Auxier
  • A Slip of a Girl By Patricia Reilly Giff

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Black &
    Irish: Legends, Trailblazers, and Everyday Heroes
    By Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons
    Illustrated By Jessica Louis
  • Hunger: A Tale of Courage By Donna Jo Napoli
  • The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist By Luciana Cimino
    Illustrated By Sergio Algozzino
  • Love and Luck Jenna Evans Welch

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, By Helaine Becker
    Illustrated By Dow Phumiruk
  • Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper, By Candace Fleming
    Illustrated By Julie Downing
  • Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX, By Jen Bryant
    Illustrated By Toshiki Nakamura
  • Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge, By Rachel Dougherty

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909, By Michelle Markel
    Illustrated By Melissa Sweet
  • Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story, By Paula Yoo
    Illustrated By Lin Wang
  • A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, By Michelle Y. Green
  • Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells, By Philip Dray
    Illustrated By Stephen Alcorn

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win World War II, By P. O’Connell Pearson
  • Go With the Flow, By Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
  • Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America, By Karen Blumenthal
  • Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, By Evette Dionne

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights, By Mikki Kendall
    Illustrated By A. D’Amico
  • Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich, By Annie Boochever and Roy Peratrovich, Jr.
  • Girls Save The World in This One, By Ash Parsons
  • Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, By Rebecca Hall
    Illustrated By Hugo Martínez

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Egyptian Lullaby By Zeena M. Pliska
    Illustrated By Hatem Aly
  • Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story By Reem Faruqi
    Illustrated By Lea Lyon
  • Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers By Lina al-Hathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery
    Illustrated By Rebecca Green
  • Salma the Syrian Chef By Danny Ramadan
    Illustrated By Anna Bron
  • These Olive Trees By Aya Ghanameh

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Farah Rocks Fifth Grade By Susan Muaddi Darraj
    Illustrated By Ruaida Mannaa
  • Nour’s Secret Library By Wafa’ Tarnowska
    Illustrated By Vali Mintzi
  • Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria By George Jreije
  • Silverworld By Diana Abu-Jaber
  • The Turtle of Oman By Naomi Shihab Nye

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Escape from Aleppo By N.H. Senzai
  • The Green Bicycle By Haifaa al Mansour
  • Habibi By Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Listen, Layla By Yassmin Abdel-Magied
  • Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria By Muhammad Najem and Nora Neus
    Illustrated By Julie Robine

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow By Zoulfa Katouh
  • Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine By Ibtisam Barakat
  • A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, to Return By Zeina Abirached
  • Here We Are Now By Jasmine Warga
  • Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion By Shannon Stocker
    Illustrated By Devon Holzwarth
  • The Sound of Silence: Growing Up Hearing with Deaf Parents By Myron Uhlberg
  • Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott By Joyce Scott and Brie Spangler
    Illustrated By Melissa Sweet
  • The William Hoy Story By Nancy Churnin
    Illustrated By Jez Tuya

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Deaf Child Crossing By Marlee Matlin
  • El Deafo By Cece Bell
    Illustrated By David Lasky
  • Wonderstruck By Brian Selznick
  • You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! By Alex Gino

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Feathers By Jacqueline Woodson
  • Hear Me By Kerry O’Malley Cerra
  • Show Me a Sign By Ann Clare LeZotte
  • Song for a Whale By Lynne Kelly

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Give Me a Sign By Anna Sortino
  • A Quiet Kind of Thunder By Sara Barnard
  • The Words in My Hands By Asphyxia
  • You’re Welcome, Universe By Whitney Gardner

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
    Illustrated By R. Gregory Christie
  • Dear Librarian By Lydia M. Sigwarth
    Illustrated By Romina Galotta
  • Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built, By Angela Burke Kunkel
    Illustrated By Paola Escobar
  • A Library By Nikki Giovanni
    Illustrated By Erin K. Robinson
  • Library Lion By Michelle Knudsen
    Illustrated By Kevin Hawkes
  • Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré By Anika Aldamuy Denise
    Illustrated By Paola Escobar

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Ban This Book By Alan Gratz
  • Behind My Doors: The Story of the World's Oldest Library By Hena Khan
    Illustrated By Nabila Adani
  • Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller By Breanna J. McDaniel
    Illustrated By April Harrison
  • Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams By Katherine Paterson
    Illustrated By Sally Deng
  • Keeper of Stories By Caroline Kusin Pritchard
    Illustrated By Selina Alko
  • Library on Wheels By Sharlee Glenn

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Answers in the Pages By David Levithan
  • Attack of the Black Rectangles By Amy Sarig King
  • Finally Seen By Kelly Yang
  • The Library of Ever By Zeno Alexander
  • The Lost Library By Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
  • The Secret Library By Kekla Magoon

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Banned Together, edited By Ashley Hope Pérez
    Illustrated By Debbie Fong
  • The Book That Made Me, edited By Judith Ridge
  • Ink Girls By Marieke Nijkamp
    Illustrated By Sylvia Bi
  • The Library of Lost Things By Laura Taylor Namey
  • This Book Won’t Burn By Samira Ahmed
  • Where the Library Hides By Isabel Ibañez

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems By Calef Brown
  • How to Write a Poem By Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido
    Illustrated By Melissa Sweet
  • Poetree By Shauna LaVoy Reynolds
    Illustrated By Shahrzad Maydani
  • Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook By Shel Silverstein

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Color of My Words By Lynn Joseph
  • Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks By Suzanne Slade
    Illustrated By Cozbi A. Cabrera
  • Rhyme Schemer By K.A. Holt
  • Words with Wings By Nikki Grimes

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • A Maze Me By Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Land of the Cranes By Aida Salazar
  • Turtle Under Ice By Juleah del Rosario
  • When Clouds Touch Us By Thanhhà Lại

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • The Black Flamingo By Dean Atta
  • Forever is Now By Mariama J. Lockington
  • When We Make It By Elisabet Velasquez
  • Wings in the Wild By Margarita Engle

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants By Norman H. Finkelstein
    Illustrated By Vesper Stamper
  • Bubbie and Rivka’s Best-Ever Challah (So Far!) By Sarah Lynne Ruel
  • Hannah’s Way By Linda Glaser
    Illustrated By Adam Gustavson
  • The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs By Chana Stiefel
    Illustrated By Susan Gal

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come By Sue Macy
    Illustrated By Stacy Innerst
  • Dear Mr. Dickens By Nancy Churnin
    Illustrated By Bethany Stancliffe
  • Hedy’s Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust By Michelle Bisson
    Illustrated By El Primo Ramon
  • Shira and Esther's Double Dream Debut By Anna E. Jordan

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Almost Flying By Jake Maia Arlow
  • Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword By Barry Deutsch
  • Linked By Gordon Korman
  • Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein By Susan Goldman Rubin

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto By David Safier
  • The City Beautiful By Aden Polydoros
  • It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Storiesedited By Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
  • The Judgement of Yoyo Gold By Isaac Blum

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Cannonball By Sacha Cotter
    Illustrated By Josh Morgan
  • Love in the Library By Maggie Tokuda-Hall
    Illustrated By Yas Imamura
  • Meena Can't Wait By Farida Zaman
  • The Most Beautiful Thing By Kao Kalia Yang
    Illustrated By Khoa Le
  • The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story ;By Tina Cho
    Illustrated By Jess X. Snow
  • Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom By Teresa Robeson
    Illustrated By Rebecca Huang

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Dara Palmer's Major Drama By Emma Shevah
  • Fred Korematsu Speaks Up By Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi
    Illustrated By Yutaka Houlette
  • Front Desk By Kelly Yang
  • Lei and the Fire Goddess By Malia Maunakea
  • Samira Surfs By Rukhsanna Guidroz
    Illustrated By Fahmida Azim
  • A Thousand Questions By Saadia Faruqi

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Amina’s Voice By Hena Khan
  • The Best at It By Maulik Pancholy
  • Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen (Young Readers’ Edition) By Jose Antonio Vargas
  • The Legend of Auntie Po By Shing Yin Khor
  • Troublemaker By John Cho
  • When You Trap a Tiger By Tae Keller

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • After the Shot Drops By Randy Ribay
  • Dragonfruit Makiia Lucier
  • Himawari House By Harmony Becker
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo
  • The Magic Fish By Trung Le Nguyen
  • The Weight of Our Sky By Hanna Alkaf

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs By Kate Messner
    Illustrated By Matthew Forsythe
  • Else B. in the Sea By Jeanne Walker Harvey
    Illustrated By Melodie Stacey
  • Ocean Soup: A Recipe for You, Me, and a Cleaner Sea By Meeg Pincus
    Illustrated By Lucy Semple
  • Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret By Jess Keating
    Illustrated By Katie Hickey
  • The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation By Alice B. McGinty
    Illustrated By Shonto Begay

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Frozen in Time: What Ice Cores Can Tell Us About Climate Change By Carmella Van Vleet
  • The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist By Patricia Daniele
    Illustrated By Junyi Wu
  • Gracie Under the Waves By Linda Sue Park
  • Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee
  • The New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea By Bryn Barnard

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Line Tender By Kate Allen
  • Oceans of Plastic: Understanding and Solving a Pollution Problem By Tracey Gray
  • Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean By Patricia Newman; photographs By Annie Crawley
  • Safe Harbor By Padma Venkatraman
  • World Without Fish By Mark Kurlansky
    Illustrated By Frank Stockton

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Dry By Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
  • Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change By Bren Smith
  • Into The Deep: Science Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean By Christy Peterson
  • Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan Fought for their Lives and Warned the Nation By Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson
  • Whale Quest: Working Together to Save Endangered Species By Karen Romano Young

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Alphabreaths By Christopher Willard and Daniel Rechtschaffen
    Illustrated By Holly Clifton-Brown
  • Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective By Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett
    Illustrated By Marissa Valdez
  • The Noise Inside Boys By Pete Oswald
  • The Princess and the Fog By Anthony Lloyd Jones
  • When a Friend Needs a Friend By Roozeboos

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • All the Feelings Under the Sun By Leslie Davenport
    Illustrated By Jessica Smith
  • Five Things About Ava Andrews By Margaret Dilloway
  • The Grip By Marcus Stroman
  • A Mind Like Mine By Rachael Davis
    Illustrated By Islenia Mil
  • Moonflower By Kacen Callender

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Good Enough By Jen Petro-Roy
  • How to Become a Planet By Nicole MelleBy
  • Iveliz Explains it All By Andrea Beatriz Arango
  • Mid-Air By Alicia D. Williams
  • The Summer of June By Jamie Sumner

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • 10 Things I Can See from Here By Carrie Mac
  • (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health edited By Kelly Jensen
  • The Edge of Anything By Nora Shalaway Carpenter
  • Turtles All the Way Down By John Green
  • We Are All So Good at Smiling By Amber McBride

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa By Veronica Chambers
  • Haiti A to Z By M.J. Fievre
    Illustrated By Anastasia Khmelevska
  • Love, Lah Lah By Nailah Blackman
    Illustrated By Jade Orlando
  • Starting Over in Sunset Park By José Pelaez and Lynn McGee
    Illustrated By Bianca Diaz
  • A Story about Afiya By James Berry
    Illustrated By Anna Cunha

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Ana María Reyes Does Not Live in a Castle By Hilda Eunice Burgos
  • Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings By Francie LaTour
    Illustrated By Ken Daley
  • Coming Up Cuban By Sonia Manzano
  • Nightmare Island By Shakirah Bourne
  • Patchwork Prince By Baptiste Paul

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Behind the Mountains By Edwidge Danticat
  • Josephine Against the Sea By Shakirah Bourne
  • Rooting for Rafael Rosales By Kurtis Scaletta
  • Singing With Elephants By Margarita Engle
  • When Life Gives You Mangos By Kereen Getten

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Analee, in Real Life By Janelle Milanes
  • Learning to Breathe By Janice Lynn Mather
  • Hold Tight, Don't Let Go By Laura Rose Wagner
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez
  • Hurricane Summer By Asha Ashanti Bromfield

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • America, My New Home By Monica Funning
    Illustrated By Ken Condon
  • Areli is a Dreamer: A True Story By Areli Morales
    Illustrated By Luisa Uribe
  • Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story By Lesléa Newman
    Illustrated By Amy June Bates
  • Home is in Between By Mitali Perkins
    Illustrated By Lavanya Naidu
  • Maribel's Year By Michelle Sterling
    Illustrated By Sarah Gonzales
  • Watch Me By Doyin Richards
    Illustrated By Joe Cepeda

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
    Illustrated By Agata Nowicka
  • Front Desk By Kelly Yang
  • Land of the Cranes By Aida Salazar
  • A Long Pitch Home By Natalie Dias Lorenzi
  • One Good Thing About America By Ruth Freeman
  • Sugar in Milk By Thrity Umrigar
    Illustrated By Khoa Le

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen (Young Readers' Edition) By Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Everything Sad is Untrue By Daniel Nayeri
  • Illegal By Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
    Illustrated By Giovanni Rigano
  • Santiago's Road Home By Alexandra Diaz
  • Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy By Jonathan Hill
  • Tethered to Other Stars By Elisa Stone Leahy

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Almost American Girl By Robin Ha
  • Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card By Sara Saedi
  • The Cat I Never Named By Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan
  • Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home edited By Adi Alsaid
  • Living Beyond Borders edited By Margarita Longoria
  • Sanctuary By Paola Mendoza and AbBy Sher

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • And Tango Makes Three By Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
    Illustrated By Henry Cole
  • Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring By Matthew Burgess
    Illustrated By Josh Cochran
  • Kapaemahu By Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson
    Illustrated By Daniel Sousa
  • Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders By Sarah Prager
    Illustrated By Cheryl “Ras” Thuesday
  • Sewing the Rainbow: The Story of Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag By Gayle E. Pitman
    Illustrated By Holly Clifton-Brown

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Ana on the Edge By A.J. Sass
  • Different Kinds of Fruit By Kyle Lukoff
  • The Ribbon Skirt By Cameron Mukwa
  • This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Usedited By Katherine Locke and Nicole MelleBy
  • The Witch Boy By Molly Knox Ostertag

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Alice Austen Lived Here By Alex Gino
  • Nikhil Out Loud By Maulik Pancholy
  • A Queer History of the United States for Young People By Michael Bronski; adapted By Richie Chevat
  • The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ+ Rights By Archie Bongiovanni
    Illustrated By A. Andrews
  • Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue By George M. Johnson
  • All Out: The No Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Agesedited By Saundra Mitchell
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  • A Scatter of Light By Malinda Lo
  • Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke, The First Openly Gay MLB Player and Inventor of the High Five By Andrew Maraniss

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Anna Strong: A Spy During the American Revolution By Sarah Glenn Marsh
    Illustrated By Sarah Green
  • Blue Sky, White Stars By Sarvinder Naberhaus
    Illustrated By Kadir Nelson
  • On the Fourth of July By Maggie C. Rudd
    Illustrated By Elisa Chavarri
  • Revolutionary Friends By Selene Castrovilla
    Illustrated By Drazen Kozjan

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • The Constitution Decoded By Katie Kennedy
  • How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps By Gretchen Woelfle
    Illustrated By John O’Brien
  • Judy Moody Declares Independence By Megan McDonald
    Illustrated By Peter H. Reynolds
  • Lafayette and the American Revolution By Russell Freedman

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution By Gretchen Woelfle
    Illustrated By R. Gregory Christie
  • For Which We Stand By Jeff Foster
    Illustrated By Jule McLaughlin
  • History Smashers: The American Revolution By Kate Messner
    Illustrated By Justin Greenwood
  • Rebellion 1776 By Laurie Halse Anderson

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • 1776 By David McCullough
  • Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary By Martha Brockenbrough
  • Code Breakers and Spies of the American Revolution By Cassandra Schumacher
  • The First Conspiracy (Young Readers’ Edition) By Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • A Costume for Charly By C.K. Malone
    Illustrated By Alejandra Barajas
  • Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! By Lindz Amer
    Illustrated By Kip Alizadeh
  • My Maddy By Gayle E. Pitman
    Illustrated By Violet Tobacco
  • Neither By Airlie Anderson
  • Not He or She, I’m Me! By A.M. Wild
    Illustrated By Kah Yangni

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend By Ben Kahn
  • Jamie and Bubbie By Afsaneh Moradian
    Illustrated By Maria Bogade
  • Moonflower By Kacen Callender
  • A Song for Nolan By Rushie Ellenwood
    Illustrated By Sally Chen
  • The Tea Dragon Society By Kay O’Neill

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Ana on the Edge By A.J. Sass
  • Gooseberry By Robin Gow
  • Green By Alex Gino
  • Jamie By L.D. Lapinski
  • Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost By Esme Symes-Smith

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • The Heartbreak Bakery By A.R. Capetta
  • I Wish You All the Best By Mason Deaver
  • Man o’ War By Cory McCarthy
  • The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester By Maya MacGregor
  • The Wicked Bargain By Gabe Cole Novoa

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • All the Way to the Top By Annete Bay Pimentel
    Illustrated By Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins
  • I Will Dance By Nancy Bo Flood
    Illustrated By Julianna Swaney
  • Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion By Shannon Stocker
    Illustrated By Devon Holzwarth
  • Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille By Jen Bryant
    Illustrated By Boris Kulikov
  • We Want to Go to School! The Fight for Disability Rights By Maryann Cocca-Leffler and Janine Leffler

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • A Boy Called Bat By Elana K. Arnold
    Illustrated By Charles Santoso
  • The Chance to Fly By Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz
  • El Deafo By Cece Bell
  • I Am Not a Label: 34 Disabled Artists, Thinkers, Athletes, and Activists from Past and Present By Cerrie Burnell
    Illustrated By Lauren Mark Baldo
  • Out of My Mind By Sharon M. Draper

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus By Dusti Bowling
  • It’s All or Nothing, Vale By Andrea Beatriz Arango
  • May B. By Caroline Starr Rose
  • Roll With It By Jamie Sumner
  • Show Me a Sign By Ann Clare LeZotte

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) edited By Alice Wong
  • How We Roll By Natasha Friend
  • Give Me a Sign By Anna Sortino
  • Not If I See You First By Eric Lindstrom
  • Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited By Marieke Nijkamp

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Aloha Everything By Kaylin Melia George
    Illustrated By Mae White
  • Beach Hair By Ashley Woodfolk
    Illustrated By Niña Mata
  • Everybelly By Thao Lam
  • Hot Dog By Doug Salati
  • Our Pool By Lucy Ruth Cummins
  • Sari-Sari Summers By Lynnor Bontigao
  • Beach Toys vs. School Supplies By Mike Ciccotello
  • Mabel By Rowboat Watkins
  • Mama’s Library Summers By Melvina Noel
    Illustrated By Daria Peoples
  • Saffron Ice Cream By Rashin Kheiriyeh
  • This Beach Is Loud! By Samantha Cotterill

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Farah Rocks Summer Break By Susan Muaddi Darraj
    Illustrated By Ruaida Mannaa
  • A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation By Pablo Cartaya
  • Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All By Chanel Miller
  • Mermaid Kenzie By Charlotte Watson Sherman
    Illustrated By Geneva Bowers
  • Speak Up, Santiago! By Julio Anta
    Illustrated By Gabi Mendez
  • The Summer of the Bone Horses By Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
    Illustrated By Steph Littlebird
  • The Best Worst Summer of Esme Sun By Wendy Wan-Long Shang
  • City Summer, Country Summer By Kiese Laymon
    Illustrated By Alexis Franklin
  • The Hero Two Doors Down By Sharon Robinson
  • Icy Fruit: How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across Taiwan By Charlotte Cheng
    Illustrated By Vivian Mineker
  • Zoe the Beach Dragon By Maddy Mara

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • The Forgotten Summer of Seneca By Camryn Garrett
  • Kaya of the Ocean By Gloria L. Huang
  • My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich By Ibi Zoboi
  • Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer By Waka T. Brown
  • Second Chance Summer By Sarah Kapit
  • Three Summers By Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan
  • Hurricane Season By Nicole MelleBy
  • Not Nothing By Gayle Forman
  • Operation Sisterhood By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
  • The Summer of Lost Letters By Hannah Reynolds
  • To Night Owl, From Dogfish By Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Brownstone By Samuel Teer and Mar Julia
  • Dragonfruit By Makiia Lucier
  • Take a Sad Song By Ona Gritz
  • The Counselors By Jessica Goodman
  • The Secret Summer Promise By Keah Brown
  • The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender By Leslye Walton
  • Island Creatures By Margarita Engle
  • It Waits in the Forest By Sarah Dass
  • The Summer I Remembered Everything By Catherine Con Morse
  • Time and Time Again By Chatham Greenfield
  • We Don’t Swim Here By Vincent Tirado

Early Readers (3K–Grade 2)

  • Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 By Michelle Markel
    Illustrated By Melissa Sweet
  • Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type By Doreen Cronin
    Illustrated By Betsy Lewin
  • Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children By Jonah Winter
    Illustrated By Nancy Carpenter
  • When Cesar Chavez Climbed the Umbrella Tree By Rachael Hanel
    Illustrated By Alex Herrerías

Elementary (Grades 3–5)

  • Bog Myrtle By Sid Sharp
  • Dolores Huerta Stands Strong By Malene Targ Brill
  • I’m Gonna Paint: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People By Anne Broyles
    Illustrated By Victoria Tentler-Krylov
  • The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins and Her New Deal for America By Kathleen Krull
    Illustrated By Alexandra Bye

Middle School (Grades 6–8)

  • Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman’s Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights By Mary Cronk Farrell
  • Kids on the March By Michael Long
  • The Pecan Sheller By Lupe Ruiz-Flores
  • Three Strike Summer By Skyler Schrempp

Upper Grades (Grades 9–12)

  • Fight to Win! Heroes of American Labor By Kim Kelly
  • The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coalfields By Steve Watkins
  • Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States By J. Albert Mann
  • Uprising By Margaret Peterson Haddix


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