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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.
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We also recommend this article at Rethinking Schools - The Story of One Union’s Journey Toward Disability Justice.
A Head Full of Birds
By Alexandra Garibal, Sibylle Delacroix (Illustrator), and Vineet Lal (Translator)
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion *
By Shannon Stocker and Devon Holzwarth (Illustrator)
My City Speaks
By Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron
Braille edition available here - My City Speaks (Braille edition)
Nosotros S? Podemos Hacerlo!
By Laura Dwight
Ray Charles
By Sharon Bell Mathis
Sam's Super Seats
By Keah Brown and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)
We Can Do It!
By Laura Dwight
We Move Together
By Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos (Illustrator)
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
By Mem Fox, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
By Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
By Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
By Sheila Black (Editor), Jennifer Bartlett (Editor), Michael Northen (Editor)
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
Typed Words, Loud Voices
By Amy Sequenzia (Editor), Elizabeth J. Grace (Editor), Melanie Yergeau (Foreword by)
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets Psychiatric Drugs & the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
By Robert Whitaker
Source documents: Mad in America - Anatomy Source Documents
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Edited by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, Allison C. Carey, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, & the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
By Robert Whitaker
Documents and more information at: Mad in America.com