Elementary and Middle School | Young Adult and Adult Nonfiction | Fiction & Poetry
Below are books Teaching for Change recommends on Washington, D.C. Our offices are located in D.C., where we work locally with schools via our Tellin Stories approach to community building and parent engagement. Additionally, through Teach the Beat, we bring go-go, D.C.'s distinctive music, to the classroom.
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Adventures in Ana Park (Books by Teens #23)
By Kahliya Ruffin, Trevon Evans, Liu Light (Illustrator)
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
By Eloise Greenfield, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator), Lessie Jones Little
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its
By Kathleen M. Lesko, Samuel Harvey (Foreword by), Valerie Babb (With)
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
By Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
By Paula C. Austin
NYU Press article written by the author: Tracing Black Lives Matter Back in Time