Social Justice Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Best selection of multicultural, social justice books for children, YA, educators. Project of @teachingchange Home to See What We See (SWWS) reviews database.
My Brother Is Away
Sara GreenwoodSocial Justice Books#NewBook Alert! Associate director Keesha Ceran gives a thumbs up to the new book, "My Brother is Away" by Sara Greenwood, about a young girl whose brother is incarcerated. Illustrated by Luisa Uribe, the story is based in the author's childhood experience. (1/) https://t.co/xCIGOtzeJK
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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Ibi ZoboiSocial Justice BooksSome middle school 2022 favorites are @JohnTheCho 's Troublemaker and Ibi Zoboi's Star Child. https://t.co/btPOhbkQNw
Paperback, 2023
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition
Louise Derman-SparksSocial Justice Books@pernilleripp Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, authors of "Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves" via @NAEYC. See below. https://t.co/lMfnv45fAX
Paperback, 2020
$45.00Member price:$42.75 + Free shipping5% off
The Life of / La Vida de Llort: A Bilingual Picture Book Biography
Cynthia GonzalezSocial Justice BooksCelebrating a new board book on Salvadoran artist Fernando Llort is great way to spend #LatinxHeritageMonth, especially w/our friends @ElTamarindoDC 😊 Cynthia Gonzalez' "The Life of - La Vida de Llort" is out next month, just in time for #TeachCentralAmericaWeek 🎉🎉 https://t.co/yfxiPAVigD
Board Book, 2022
$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Big Mooncake for Little Star (Caldecott Honor Book)
Grace LinSocial Justice BooksWishing you were in a book club? Check out this virtual series with many sessions hosted by @readingspark and @EdiCottonQuilts Books include "Impossible Moon," "A Big Mooncake for Little Star," "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," and more. ⬇️ https://t.co/G1M27DD9qw
Hardcover, 2018
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Impossible Moon
Breanna J. McDanielSocial Justice BooksWishing you were in a book club? Check out this virtual series with many sessions hosted by @readingspark and @EdiCottonQuilts Books include "Impossible Moon," "A Big Mooncake for Little Star," "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," and more. ⬇️ https://t.co/G1M27DD9qw
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall KimmererSocial Justice BooksWe round out this thread with one of our young adult favorites of 2022. Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass YA version. Don't forget the full link to our NEW booklist is next! https://t.co/ci9AZV4Ku9
Paperback, 2015
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is My America
Kim JohnsonSocial Justice Books"The book centers the complexity of a family navigating the injustice they have experienced and their persistence for justice..." Check out associate director Keesha's (@njc89) recommended review of #ThisisMyAmerica by @KCjohnsonwrites https://t.co/idYAWgiyde
Paperback, 2022
$13.99Member price:$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee: (A Picture Book Biography of an African American Girl in the Era of Segregation
Carole Boston WeatherfordSocial Justice BooksA history lesson for all ages in the picture book, "How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee" by @poetweatherford & illustrated by @frankmorrison_ #TeachTruth April release, available for pre-order now via @Bookshop_Org, here: https://t.co/tVniuf86ND https://t.co/IGYuYcm7Qj
Hardcover, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mother of the Sea
Zetta ElliottSocial Justice BooksRecommended: "Mother of the Sea" by @zettaelliott When her village is raided, a teenage girl finds herself on a brutal journey to the coast of Africa and across the Atlantic. A child warns that her mother — a fierce warrior — is coming to claim them all. https://t.co/zCme5dVfoa
Paperback, 2017
$7.00Member price:$3.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book