I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education
By Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland
March 2025
King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South
By Jeanne Theoharis
March 2025
Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
By Eve L. Ewing
February 2025
Hooray, It's Three Kings Day! A Picture Book for Epiphany
By Annette M. Clayton and Jone Leal (Illustrator)
Spanish: ¡Genial, Llegó El Día de Reyes!
November 2024
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
By Kate Masur and Elizabeth Clarke (Illustrator)
October 2024
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
By Maysa Odeh and Aliaa Betawi (Illustrator)
October 2024
Who Needs a Statue?
By Eve Laplante, Margy Burns Knight, and Alix Delinois (Illustrator)
October 2024
The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community
By Ibtihaj Muhammad
Also see The Kindest Red and The Proudest Blue
September 2024
Calling All Future Voters!
By Laura Atkins, Edward A. Hailes Jr., Jennifer Lai-Peterson, Srimalie Bassani (Illustrator)
September 2024
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom
By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
September 2024
Until We're Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Edited by Joseph Entin and Jeanne Theoharis
August 2024
Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills *
By Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman, and S. D. Nelson (Illustrator)
July 2024
Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park
By María Dolores Águila and Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)
June 2024
Soul Step
By Jewell Parker Rhodes, Kelly McWilliams, and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (Illustrator)
June 2024
Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School: Based on a True Story
By Traci Huahn and Michelle Jing Chan (Illustrator)
May 2024
Reflection, Perspective-Taking, and Social Justice
By Jacky Howell, Makai Kellogg, Magy Youssef, and Sabina Zeffler
May 2024
We Care: A First Conversation About Justice *
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Sharee Miller (Illustrator)
May 2024
Teachers Speak Up! Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Difficult Times
Edited by Sonia Nieto and Alicia López Nieto
April 2024
We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
By Joanna Ho and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (Illustrator)
April 2024
Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools
By Shamari Reid
March 2024
Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope
By Leila Boukarim and Sona Avedikian (Illustrator)
March 2024
Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five
By Phil Bildner and Daniel J. O'Brien (Illustrator)
February 2024
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
By Breanna J. McDaniel
February 2024
Do You Know Them? Families Lost and Found After the Civil War
By Shana Keller and Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
January 2024
Eleven Words for Love: A Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love *
By Randa Abdel-Fattah and Maxine Beneba Clarke (Illustrator)
November 2023
La historia del pueblo de Estados Unidos para jóvenes
By Howard Zinn, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff, and translated by Hugo García Manríquez
November 2023
Step by Step! How the Lincoln School Marchers Blazed a Trail to Justice
By Debbie Rigaud, Carlotta Penn
See: “Marching Mothers” Sue to Desegregate Schools
November 2023
Come and Join Us! 18 Holidays Celebrated All Year Long
By Liz Kleinrock and Chaaya Prabhat (Illustrator)
October 2023
There Was a Party for Langston
By Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey (Illustrator), and Jarrett Pumphrey (Illustrator)
October 2023
Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White, US Olympian and Long Jump Champion
By Alice Faye Duncan and Keith Mallett (Illustrator)
October 2023
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By Bettina L. Love
September 2023
Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter
By Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Candace Buford
September 2023
A Walk in the Woods
By Nikki Grimes, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator), and Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
September 2023
What Your Ribbon Skirt Means to Me: Deb Haaland's Historic Inauguration
By Alexis Bunten and Nicole Neidhardt (Illustrator)
July 2023
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
May 2023
Warrior Girl Unearthed
By Angeline Boulley
May 2023
21st Century Voices of a People's History of the United States: Documents of Resistance and Hope, 2000-2023
Edited by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin
April 2023
How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee *
By Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
April 2023
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
By Hannah Moushabeck
From Prism: Palestinian authors grapple with a wave of censorship
March 2023
The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Adapted for Young Readers)
By Heather McGhee
February 2023
Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel
By Marcus Rediker and David Lester (Illustrator)
February 2023
A Young People's History of the United States: Revised and Updated
By Howard Zinn, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff, additions by Ed Morales
January 2023
Together: A First Conversation about Love
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Anne/Andy Passchier (Illustrator)
December 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Monique Gray Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Nicole Neidhardt (Illustrator)
November 2022
Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children
Edited by Maurice Sykes and Kyra Ostendorf
November 2022
Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War
By Mónica Montañés, Eva Sánchez Gómez, (Illustrator), and Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
November 2022
Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children
By Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Patrick Dougher (Illustrator)
October 2022
How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter
By Laleña Garcia and Caryn Davidson (Illustrator)
October 2022
Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando
By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, Magdalena Mora (Illustrator), Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (Translator)
Author Interview
October 2022
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
By Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal (Illustrator)
October 2022
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement *
By Angela Joy and Janelle Washington (Illustrator)
September 2022
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about a People's History
By Howard Zinn and Ray Suarez
August 2022
Cultivating Joyful Learning Spaces for Black Girls: Insights Into Interrupting School Pushout
By Monique W. Morris
June 2022
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment
By Lawrence Goldstone
June 2022
Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World
Edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
June 2022
The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border *
By Stephen Briseño and Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)
June 2022
The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice (Young Readers)
By Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
June 2022
A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools
By Michael Hines
May 2022
Families With Power: Centering Students by Engaging With Families and Community
By Mary Cowhey
April 2022
Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History
Edited by Leslie M. Alexander, Brandon R. Byrd, and Russell Rickford
April 2022
Insurgent Social Studies: Scholar-Educators Disrupting Erasure and Marginality
Edited by Sarah B. Shear, Natasha Hakimali Merchant , and Wayne Au
April 2022
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives
By Donna Murch
March 2022
Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect *
By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)
February 2022
Yes! No! A First Conversation about Consent *
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas (Illustrator)
February 2022
Evicted! The Struggle for the Right to Vote *
By Alice Faye Duncan and Charly Palmer (Illustrator)
January 2022
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
By Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin Jr
January 2022
Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader
By Michelle Duster and Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
January 2022
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America - Young Adult Adaptation
By Candacy Taylor
January 2022
Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America
By Selene Castrovilla and E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
January 2022
Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution
By De Nichols
November 2021
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis *
By Vanessa Nakate
November 2021
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
By Kekla Magoon
November 2021
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
By Brandy Colbert
October 2021
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
By Wade Hudson
Video with author: Wade Hudson on Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
October 2021
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
By Adrienne Keene and Ciara Sana (Illustrator)
October 2021
Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators *
By Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective
September 2021
Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices
By Lorena Escoto German
September 2021
Alejandria Fights Back! / ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!
By Leticia Hernández-Linares, The Rise-Home Stories Project, and Robert Liu-Trujillo (Illustrator)
August 2021
Being You: A First Conversation about Gender
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Anne/Andy Passchier (Illustrator)
August 2021
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua
By Gloria Amescua and Duncan Tonatiuh (Illustrator)
August 2021
Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales, a Daca Recipient *
By Areli Morales and Luisa Uribe (Illustrator)
June 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By Clint Smith
June 2021
Parenting 4 Social Justice: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Conversations & Action with Kids
By Abigail Healey (Author), Leila Raven (Author), Angela Berkfield (Editor), and Rowan Parker (Editor)
June 2021
Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman *
By Sharice Davids, Nancy K. Mays, and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (Illustrator)
June 2021
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez (Illustrator)
June 2021
A Day for Rememberin' Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
By Leah Henderson and Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
May 2021
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
By Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura and Ross Ishikawa (Illustrator)
May 2021
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
By Aviva Chomsky
April 2021
For All / Para Todos *
By Alejandra Domenzain , Katherine Loh (Illustrator), and Irene Prieto de Coogan (Translator)
April 2021
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
By Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk (Illustrator)
April 2021
Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture *
By Marilisa Jiménez García
April 2021
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Patterson.
Learn more at the Colored Conventions Project
March 2021
Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice
By Michael G. Long
March 2021
Our Skin: A First Conversation
About Race *
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas (Illustrator)
Spanish edition: Nuestra Piel
March 2021
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By Kate Masur
March 2021
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
March 2021
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
February 2021
The Clothesline Code: The Story of Civil War Spies Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker
By Janet Halfmann and Trisha Mason (Illustrator)
February 2021
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
February 2021
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition *
By Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert
February 2021
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre *
By Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
February 2021
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By Mariame Kaba
February 2021
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
By Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon
January 2021
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
By Keila V. Dawson and Alleanna Harris (Illustrator)
January 2021
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men
By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace
January 2021
Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
By Michael Charney (Editor), Jesse Hagopian (Editor), Bob Peterson (Editor)
January 2021
