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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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28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World

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By Charles R. Smith

Ages:6-10

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A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

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By David A. Adler

Ages:6-10

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A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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By David A. Adler

Ages:6-10

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A Picture Book of Rosa Parks

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By David A. Adler

Ages:6-10

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A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen

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By Kathryn Lasky

Ages:9-12

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Alejandria Fights Back!

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Alejandria Fights Back!
By Leticia Hernández-Linares

Ages:5-8

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Amal Unbound

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Amal Unbound
By Aisha Saeed

Ages:10 and up

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As Fast As Words Could Fly

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By Pamela M. Tuck

Ages:7-12

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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

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Brave Girl book cover
By Michelle Markel

Ages:5-8

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Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics

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Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics
By Margarita Engle

Ages:8-12

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Brown Girl Dreaming

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By Jacqueline Woodson

Ages:10 and up

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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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Change the World Before Bedtime

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By Mark Kimball Moulton

Ages:4-8

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement

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By Paula Young Shelton

Ages:4-8

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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
By Angela Joy

Ages:8-12

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Come to the Great World: Poems from Around the Globe

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By Wendy Cooling

Ages:6-12

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Dear America: With the Might of Angels

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By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Ages:8-12

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Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth

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By Rosa Parks

Ages:9-12

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Diego Rivera: His World and Ours

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By Duncan Tonatiuh

Ages:5-10

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Dinner at Aunt Connie's House

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By Faith Ringgold

Ages:4-8

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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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