Dance - Social Justice Books

Elementary | Middle and High School

Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Bookshop (an indie bookstore platform) and / or Powells.com (an independent, unionized bookstore). A small percentage from book sales through these links goes to Teaching for Change.

Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).

Elementary

By Carmen Bernier-Grand

By Mahak Jain and Anu Chouhan (Illustrator)

Bowwow Powwow *

By Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder (Illustrator), and Gordon Jourdain (Translator)

Boys Dance! *

By John Robert Allman and Luciano Lozano (Illustrator)

By Linda J. Acevedo and Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

By George Ancona

By Srividhya Venkat and Kavita Ramchandran (Illustrator)

By Debbie Allen, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

By Duncan Tonatiuh

By Nicole McCandless and Byron Gramby (Illustrator)

By Kelly J. Baptist and Darnell Johnson (Illustrator)

By Ria Thundercloud and Kalila J. Fuller (Illustrator)

By Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers (Illustrator)

By Connie Schofield-Morrison

By Cynthia L Smith

By Denise Lajimodiere and Angela Erdrich (Illustrator)

By Maurie J. Manning

By Lesa Cline Ransome, James Ransome

By Raquel M. Ortiz, Maria Dominguez (Illustrator), Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Translator)

By Jewell Parker Rhodes, Kelly McWilliams, and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (Illustrator)

By Kaija Langley and Keith Mallett (Illustrator)

Middle and High School

By Randi Pink

A Time to Dance *

By Padma Venkatraman

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