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Recommended Teen Reads Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter Recommended Teen Reads Recommended Teen FICTION The Crossover by Kwame Alexander He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander Rumor Central Series by Reshonda Tate Billingsley Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana Davis Fire From the Rock by Sharon M. Draper Panic by Sharon M. Draper Fake ID by Lamar Giles Overturned by Lamar Giles Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon Ahgottahandleonit by Donovan Mixon Black Lives Matter Recommended Teen Reads Recommended Teen Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Monster by Walter Dean Myers Loving Vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell Show and Prove by Sofia Quintero All American Boys by Jason Reynolds The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds Ghost by Jason Reynolds Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Miles Morales: A Spider-man Novel by Jason Reynolds X: A Novel by Ilyash Shabazz and Kekla Magoon Down By Law by Ni-Ni Simone Hollywood High Series by Ni-Ni Simone Dear Martin by Nic Stone Calling My Name by Liara Tamani The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Next (D-Bow’s High School Hoops #1) by Kevin Waltman Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson Black Lives Matter Recommended Teen Reads Recommended Teen This Side of Home by Renee Watson If You Come Softly and Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon NON-FICTION I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power by Ann Bausum We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Re-segregation by Jeff Chang Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PhD. Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America by Russell Freedman Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Ful- ton and Tracy Martin A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 by Claire Hart- field The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Black Lives Matter Recommended Teen Reads Recommended Teen GRAPHIC NOVELS Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Stefa- no Caselli, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, illustrated by Caanan White Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Vol 1: Dawn of the Midnight An- gels by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay March: Book 1 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson, and John Jennings Luke Cage, Vol 1: Sins of the Father by David F. Walker, Nelson Blake II, Marcio Menyz, and Joe Sabino .
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