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Bread and Roses, Too

Bread and Roses, Too

Katherine Paterson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2006
Photo of woman and child sitting in front of the Supreme Court holding newspaper after Brown v. Board of Education ruling

Brown V. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice

Susan Goldman Rubin
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2016
Butterfly Yellow

Butterfly Yellow

Thanhhà Lai
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2019
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2015
Al Capone Does My Shirts

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction, Mystery / Crime
Published:
2006
Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM

Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in Stem

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2020
Christo and Jeanne‑Claude: Through the Gates

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2008
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Philip M. Hoose
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2009
Code Talker

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II

Joseph Bruchac
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2006
Coming of Age in Mississippi

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

Anne Moody
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction
Published:
1968
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific

Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2018
Young person looking at the camera

Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices

Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir
Published:
2016
Dreamland Burning

Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2017
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2013
Stitched textile with beadwork

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition)

Anton Treuer
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2021
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2018
Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction
Published:
2002
Fever 1793

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2000
Chicago cityscape against red sky

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Claire Hartfield
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2018
Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Veronica Chambers, The Staff of the New York Times
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2020
Flying South

Flying South

L.M. Elliott
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2003
Young Civil Rights marchers carrying American flag

Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Bruce Watson, Rebecca Stefoff
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2020
 From Norvelt to Nowhere

From Norvelt to Nowhere

Jack Gantos
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2013