Early Childhood

Christmas Makes Me Think

By Tony Medina, Chandra Cox

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Eric Larkin

How to Heal a Broken Wing

By Bob Graham, Bob Graham (Illustrator)

Letters to a Prisoner

By Jacques Goldstyn

One*

By Kathryn Otoshi

One Duck Stuck: A Mucky Ducky Counting Book

By Phyllis Root, Jane Chapman (Illustrator)

The Subway Sparrow

By Leyla Torres, Leyla Torres (Illustrator)

Swimmy *

By Leo Lionni

We Are Water

Protectors *

By Carole Lindstrom, Michaela Goade (Illustrator)

What We Believe

By Laleña Garcia, Caryn Davidson (Illustrator)

Aani & the Tree Huggers

By Jeannine Atkins, Venantius J. Pinto (Illustrator)

Alejandria Fights Back! / ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!

By Leticia Hernández-Linares,  The Rise-Home Stories Project, and  Robert Liu-Trujillo (Illustrator)

The Bobbin Girl

Emily Arnold McCully; Illustrator-Emily Arnold McCully

Book Uncle and Me

By Uma Krishnaswami

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

ByDoreen Cronin

Destiny's Gift*

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley

For All / Para Todos *

By Alejandra Domenzain, Katherine Loh (Illustrator), and Irene Prieto de Coogan (Translator)

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue  (Illustrator)

Grandpa's Corner Store

By DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

The Harvey Milk Story

By Kari Krakow and David Gardner (Illustrator)

If You're a Kid Like Gavin

By Gavin Grimm,  Kyle Lukoff, and  J Yang (Illustrator)

Joelito's Big Decision*

By Ann Berlak, Daniel Camacho (Illustrator), Jose Antonio Galloso

Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong *

By Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta

Kid Blink Beats the World

By Don Brown, Don Brown (Illustrator)

Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice

By Michael G. Long

Love Is Powerful

By Heather Dean Brewer and LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights (for Young Readers)

By Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick, abridged and adapted by Sarah J. Robbins

Milo’s Museum*

By Zetta Elliott, Purple Wong (Illustrator)

Nadarin

By Leo Lionni, Teresa Mlawer (Translator)

Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

By Doreen Rappaport, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)

Nour's Secret Library

By Wafa' Tarnowska and Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)

Oh, The Things We're For!

By Innosanto Nagara

Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott*

By Dee Romito

The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

By Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin, Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)

Rise Up and Write It: With Real Mail, Posters, and More!

By Nandini Ahuja and Anoosha Syed (Illustrator)

Rise Up! The Art of Protest

By Jo Rippon

Rosa

By Nikki Giovanni, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!

By Diana Cohn, Francisco Delgado (Illustrator), Luis J. Rodriguez (Essay by)

Side by Side / Lado a Lado*

By Monica Brown, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator)

Sofia Valdez Future Prez

By Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

Someday is Now*

By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

That's Not Fair!/No Es Justo!: Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice/La Lucha de Emma Tenayuca Por La Justicia

By Carmen Tafolla, Sharyll Teneyuca, Terry Ybanez (Illustrator)

Undocumented: A Worker's Fight

By Duncan Tonatiuh

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer*

By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes

Vicki and A Summer of Change! ¡Vicki y un verano de cambio! *

By Raquel M. Ortiz and Iris Morales 

The Water Walker*

By Joanne Robertson

We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin

By Larry Dane Brimner

Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song

By George Ella Lyon

Young Native Activist: Growing Up in Native American Rights Movements

By Aslan Tudor

Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock *

By Aslan Tudor, Kelly Tudor

The Assignment *

By Liza Wiemer

Different Kinds of Fruit

By Kyle Lukoff

The Kid's Guide to Social Action

By Barbara A. Lewis

Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Community Organizing, Second Edition

By Eric Shragge

Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

By Andrew Boyd, Dave Oswald Mitchell

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

By Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner

Building Power, Sharpening Minds

By School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL)

Building Powerful Community Organizations

By Michael Jacoby Brown

Catch the Fire: An Art-Full Guide to Unleashing the Creative Power of Youth, Adults and Communities

By Peggy Taylor, Charlie Murphy

Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution *

Edited by Josh MacPhee

Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World

By Sue Hyde

Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice

By Si Kahn

Doing Democracy: The Map Model for Organizing Social Movements

By Bill Moyer, JoAnn MacAllister, Mary Lou Finley Steven Soifer

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

By George Lakey

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

By Charles M. Payne

"Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!" Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement

By Mark R. Warren, David Goodman

Love Is a Revolution

By Renée Watson

Making All Black Lives Matter

By Barbara Ransby

A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing for School Reform

By Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp

Occupation: Organizer — A Critical History of Community Organizing in America

By  Clément Petitjean

On the Freedom Side

By Wesley C. Hogan

Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activist in the 1990's - Fourth Edition

By Kim Bobo

Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer

By Eric Mann

Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth *

By Robert Shetterly

The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

By Jay Gillen

Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001

Edited by Dan Berger and Emily K. Hobson

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

By Saul Alinsky

Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth

By Matt Hern (Editor), Noam Chomsky (Contribution by), Dan Savage (Contribution by)

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy

By Rinku Sen, Kim Klein (Editor)

Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community

By Joan Minieri, Paul Getsos, Kim Klein

Troublemaker for Justice The Story of Bayard Rustin the Man Behind the March on Washington*

By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By Mariame Kaba

We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States

By Michael Long, Chris Hedges

When We Fight, We Win

By Greg Jobin-Leeds, Agitarte

The Worker Center Handbook: A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement

By Kim Bobo, Marien Casillas Pabellon

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