Kids Book Index
Autumn Allen
All You Have To Do is a young adult novel about two Black students seeking success in prestigious American academic institutions. The students are activists whose personal struggles are connected across decades. The book considers what achievement demands of them while placing their individual experiences in a longer shared history. Their stories are presented together despite the decades between them.
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Your Plantation Prom Is Not OkayKelly McWilliamsIn Louisiana, Harriet confronts racism and struggles with her own anger after a white woman buys the plantation next door. The new owner turns the site into a venue for special events, forcing Harriet to face the romanticized treatment of a racist past. The novel brings together grief, rage, humor, and public conflict as Harriet responds to what is happening in her community.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Dark TestamentCrystal Simone SmithDark Testament collects the poems of civil rights activist Pauli Murray, bringing her only poetry volume back into print. The collection is described through comparisons to Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhythmic speech and Langston Hughes’s lyric poetry. Its 2018 Liveright edition appears amid renewed public attention to Murray’s life, including a New Yorker profile and other published work about her.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Warrior Girl UnearthedAngeline BoulleySixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch spends the summer as an intern in a tribal museum, where she learns about NAGPRA and the failure to return Native ancestral remains and sacred items. Disturbed by what she sees at a nearby college, Perry takes impulsive action while local Indigenous women disappear. A trustee’s murder leads her to a devastating discovery involving ancestral remains, exposing further secrets hidden on the land.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL720LATOS Book Level 5.09On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details