Find more recommendations on our extended list of social justice titles available at your local library through World Cat.
Picture Books and Elementary
Climate Action: What Happened and What We Can Do by Seymour Simon
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
For all/Para todos by Alejandra Domenzain
The Great Banned Books Bake Sale by Aya Khalil
IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council, and Carolyn Choi
Sí, se puede!/Yes, we can! Janitor Strike in L.A. by Diana Cohn
Speak Up by Miranda Paul
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist by Philip Dray
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
We Want to Go to School! The Fight for Disability Rights by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Middle Grade
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Marley Dias Gets It Done and So Can You! by Marley Dias
Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling
Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York by Amy Hill Hearth
Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles
We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia by P. O'Connell Pearson
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade & Cheryl Willis Hudson
Young Adult
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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