This list of titles on race, racism, and social justice was assembled from suggestions by library staff throughout Vermont.
Books for Ages 5-12
- A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner (2008)
- Antiracist Baby (board book) Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
- Armstrong & Charlie by Steven Frank (2017)
- Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2017)
- Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2008)
- Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (1999)
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014)
- Can I Touch Your Hair? by Irene Latham (2018)
- Chasing Freedom by Nikki Grimes (2015)
- Color Me Dark by Pat McKissack (2000)
- Daisy and the Doll by Angela Shelf Medearis (2000)
- Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (2012)
- Freedom Over Me by Ashley Brian (2016)
- Genesis begins again by Alicia D. Williams (2019)
- Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson (2018)
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (2011)
- It Ain’t so Awful Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas (2016)li>
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (2005)
- Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport (2001)
- Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan (2018)
- March Forward, Girl by Melba Beals (2018)
- Mississippi Bridge by Mildred Taylor (1990)
- Momma, Did you Hear the News? By Sanya Whittaker Gragg (2017)
- Mr. Lincoln’s Way by Patricia Polacco (2001)
- My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver (2018)
- New Kid by Jerry Craft (2019)
- Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017)
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham (2018)
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams (2010)
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga (2019)
- Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim (2016)
- Racism by Jane Lacey (2018)
- Remember: The Road to School Integration by Toni Morrison (2004)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (1976)
- Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Ramsey (2010)
- Same Sun Here by Silas House (2012)
- Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney (2010)
- Some Places More than Others by Reene Watson (2019)
- Something Happened in our Town by Marianne Celano, Maietta Collins and Ann Hazzard (2018)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stampedfrom the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
- Teammates by Peter Golenbock (1990)
- That is My Dream by Langston Hughes and Daniel Miyares (2017)
- The Case for Loving by Selina Alko (2015)
- The First Step by Susan Goodman (2016)
- The Friendship by Mildred Taylor (1987)
- The Journal of Biddy Owens by Walter Dean Myers (2001)
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (2001)
- The Power Book by Claire Saunders, Georgia Amson-Bradshaw, Minna Salami, Mik Scarlet, Hazel Songhurst, and Joelle Avelino (2019)
- The Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce (2019)
- The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon (2018)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (1995)
- The Wind Called My Name by Mary Louise Sanchez (2018)
- This Is The Dream by Diane ZuHone Shore (2005)
- Two Friends by Dean Robbins (2016)
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery (2015)
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (2008)
- White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman (1996)
- Wishtree by K.A. Applegate (2017)
Books for Ages 12-18
- Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée (2015)
- Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon (2012)
- Full Cicada Moon by Mary Hilton (2015)
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker (2018)
- March Graphic Novels by John Lewis (2015)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (2018)
- The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon (2009)
- We are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden (2018)