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Social Justice in Children's and Young Adult Literature

This Libguide shares books and materials that hit on social justice topics

Picture Books

Civil Rights

Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world by Cynthia Chin-Lee; Megan Halsey (Illustrator); Sean Addy (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 920.72 Chi Curric Lib
ISBN: 1570915229
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
Call Number: j McC Curric Lib
ISBN: 0803718276
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Brave Girl by Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 921 LEM
ISBN: 9780061804427
Publication Date: 2013-01-22
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport; Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Sta Curric Lib
ISBN: 9780786851423
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Only Passing Through: the story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator); Nancy Siscoe (Editor)
Call Number: j 921 Tru Curric Lib
ISBN: 0679891862
Publication Date: 2000-12-26
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Par Curric Lib
ISBN: 0805071067
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 323.09 Wea Curric Lib
ISBN: 9780763665319
Publication Date: 2015-08-04

Education

The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 921 BAS
ISBN: 0152054456
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Kerascoët (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 920 YOU
ISBN: 9780316319577
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 331.3 WIN
ISBN: 9781481422949
Publication Date: 2014-11-04
Nasreen's Secret School by Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 958..1 WIN
ISBN: 9781416994374
Publication Date: 2009-10-06

Other

Art from Her Heart: folk artist Clementine Hunter by Kathy Whitehead; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Hun Curric Lib
ISBN: 9780399242199
Publication Date: 2008-09-18
Beautiful Warrior: the legend of the Nun's kung fu by Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
Call Number: j McC Curric Lib
ISBN: 0590374877
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Buffalo Bird Girl: a Hidatsa story by S. D. Nelson
Call Number: j 978.04 Nel Curric Lib
ISBN: 9781419703553
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: j All Curric Lib
ISBN: 0803725019
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
Call Number: j Eng
ISBN: 9780544102293
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Harlem's Little Blackbird by Renée Watson; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Mil Curric Lib
ISBN: 9780375869730
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
Miss Mary Reporting: the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy; C. F. Payne (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Gar Curric Lib
ISBN: 9781481401203
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jonah Winter; Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Gin Curric Library
ISBN: 9781419725593
Publication Date: 2017-08-08
Wilma Unlimited: how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman by Kathleen Krull; David Diaz (Illustrator)
Call Number: j 921 Rud Curric Lib
ISBN: 0152012672
Publication Date: 1996-04-01