YA / Adult Nonfiction | YA / Adult Fiction
Here are books for young adults and adults dealing with police brutality in the United States. This list demonstrates the lack of good tiles for children and families. Let us know if you have titles that you recommend that we add to this list.
In addition to the titles below, we recommend:
- Oakland Public Library: Evaluating Children’s Books about Police: a toolkit for librarians and other evaluators of children’s literature
- Zinn Education Project: Teach the History of Policing
Many Additional Titles on Policing Are on the Incarceration Book List.
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(*).
I Am Alfonso Jones *
By Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson (Illustrator), and John Jennings (Illustrator), foreword by Bryan Stevenson
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
By Zetta Elliott and Noa Denmon (Illustrator)
Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States
Edited by Jael Silliman and Anannya Bhatacharjee (Afterword by Angela Davis)
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
By Flint Taylor
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility *
By Marc Lamont Hill and Frank Barat, with a forward by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
