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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 Powells, an independent, union labor bookstore. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

By Kat Zhang, Charlene Chua

Bringing In the New Year

By Grace Lin

Dim Sum for Everyone!

By Grace Lin, Grace Lin (Illustrator)

Kite Flying

By Grace Lin

Landed

By Milly Lee, Yangsook Choi (Illustrator)

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

By Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)

La Tienda De Mama Y Papa

By Amelia Lau Carling

The Ugly Vegetables

By Grace Lin, Grace Lin (Illustrator)

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding

By Lenore Look

Yum Yum Dim Sum

By Amy Wilson Sanger

Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain

By Russell Freedman

Coolies

By Yin

Dragonwings

By Laurence Yep

Dragon's Gate

By Laurence Yep

The Great Wall Of Lucy Wu*

By Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean

By Sigrid Schmalzer, Melanie Linden Chan

Mountain Chef

By Annette Bay Pimentel, Rich Lo

Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America

By Helen Foster James

American Born Chinese

By Gene Luen Yang

Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America

By David H. T. Wong

Front Desk*

By Kelly Yang

Love from A to Z*

By S. K. Ali

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

By Maxine Hong Kingston

A Free Life

By Ha Jin

 

A Good Fall

By Ha Jin

The Last Communist Virgin

By Wang Ping

 

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