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Books About Police Brutality Books About Finding Your Voice Tyler Johnson Was Here The Poet X by Jay Coles by Elizabeth Acevedo Accompanying his twin to a party that is The daughter of devout immigrants thrown into chaos by a shooting, Marvin, a discovers the power of slam poetry and multicultural teen, is horrified when his begins participating in a school club as part brother goes missing and is found dead, of her effort to understand her mother's possibly at the hands of a racist police strict religious beliefs and her own officer. YF COLES developing relationship to the world. YF ACEVEDO Anger Is A Gift by Mark Oshiro Saints and Misfits A young adult debut by the popular social by S. K. Ali media personality and critic reflects the Janna Yusuf, the daughter of the only racial and economic struggles of today's divorced mother at their mosque, tries to teens in the story of high school junior make sense of the events that follow when Moss, who in the face of a racist school her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the administration decides to organize a Muslim community--attempts to assault protest that escalates into violence. her at the end of sophomore year. YF ALI YF OSHIRO The Education of Margot Sanchez I am Alfonso Jones by Lilliam Rivera by Tony Medina Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones working in her family's South Bronx grocery travels in a New York subway car full of the store, but she must make the right choices living and the dead, watching his family and about her friends, her family, and Moises, friends fight for justice after he is killed yb the good looking but outspoken boy from an off-duty police officer while buying a suit the neighborhood. YF RIVERA in a Midtown department store. YF MEDINA, Teen Graphic Novel Calling My Name by Liara Tamani Coming of age in Houston, an African- by American teen navigates her conservative When sixteen-year-old Rashad is family's strict rules about school, church mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate and dating while dreaming of stepping out Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the of her male sibling's shadow to pursue a hands of a police officer who happens to be college education and a more meaningful the older brother of his best friend. Told spiritual life. YF TAMANI through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints. YF REYNOLDS Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson Tired of being singled out at her mostly- by white private school as someone who needs Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther support, Jade would rather participate in King Jr., Justyce McAllister struggles to the school's Study Abroad program than face the reality of race relations today and join Women to Women, a mentorship how they are shaping him. YF STONE program for at-risk girls. YF WATSON

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Fresh ink : An Anthology by Lamar Giles An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance. YF FRESH

How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree. YF MAGOON

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed. YF SANCHEZ

American Street by Ibi Zoboi When Fabiola's mother is detained upon their arrival to the United States, Fabiola must navigate her loud American cousins, the grittiness of Detroit's west side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own. YF ZOBOI

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