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Books Matter™

Children's & Young Adult Literature

ADL’s online bibliography of recommended children’s and young adult books about bias, bullying, diversity and social justice.

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A Very Special Critter

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By Mercer Mayer

Ages:4-8

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All About My Brother

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By Sarah Peralta

Ages:4-8

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Anna and Natalie

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By Barbara H. Cole

Ages:6-10

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Armond Goes to a Party

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By Nancy Carlson

Ages:5-9

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Benny Doesn't Like to be Hugged

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Benny Doesn't Like to be Hugged
By Zetta Elliott

Ages:4-8

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Brayden Speaks Up: How One Boy Inspired the Nation

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Brayden Speaks Up: How One Boy Inspired the Nation
By Brayden Harrington

Ages:4-8

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Brian's Bird

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By Patricia Anne Davis

Ages:6-10

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Cameron Goes to School

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Cameron Goes to School
By Sheletta Brundidge

Ages:4-7

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Can You Hear a Rainbow?: The Story of a Deaf Boy Named Chris

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By Jamee Riggio Heelan

Ages:5-10

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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem

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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
By Amanda Gorman

Ages:4-8

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El Deafo

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By Cece Bell

Ages:8-12

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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By Jonathan Safran Foer

Ages:14 and up

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Families

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By Susan Kuklin

Ages:4-8

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Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon

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Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
By Simran Jeet Singh

Ages:4-8

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Featherless/Desplumado

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By Juan Felipe Herrera

Ages:6-10

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Fish in a Tree

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By Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ages:10 and up

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GreenBean: True Blue Family

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By Elizabeth Blake

Ages:4-8

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Hello, Universe

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Hello, Universe Bookcover
By Erin Entrada Kelly

Ages:8-12

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Henry the Boy

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Henry the Boy
By Molly Felder

Ages:5-9

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I Didn't Stand Up

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I Didn't Stand Up
By Lucy Falcone

Ages:5-8

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Summer Reading

Monthly Featured Book

Each month a book from Books Matter is featured. Each Monthly Featured Book has educator and parent discussion guides to expand upon young people's learning from the book. Suggested activities help to facilitate discussions about identity and diversity, understanding and challenging bias and promoting social justice.

See Monthly Featured Books here.

ADL recommends children’s and young adult books that educators, students, families and others can use to explore concepts including identity, diversity, bias, and bullying. We choose age-appropriate works of literature that have engaging plots, strong themes and relevant content topics.

A book recommendation should not be considered — and is most certainly not — an approval of everything the author may have said or done. Indeed, at times, we have featured books where we may vehemently disagree with the authors on other issues outside of the content of their books. We think this not only allows us to choose the best books for educational purposes, but it is an important lesson that you can value a work even if you disagree with the creator’s views expressed elsewhere. For more, please read our post on how we can value books and other content even when one disagrees with the author and how to engage young people in this conversation.

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