Social Justice Resources

Social Justice Resources

Seattle Schools’ Teacher Librarians have identified these titles in support of Black Lives Matter. Browse through the tabs below. Click on a book cover to read a description on the Seattle Public Library catalog.

Books for Primary Grades K-3

28 Days book cover

Astro Girl book cover

Before She Was Harriet book cover

Black is a Rainbow Color book cover

Brave Ballerina book cover

Counting on Katherine book cover

Crown book cover

The Day You Begin book cover

Enough book cover

Grandma's Purse book cover

Hair Love book cover

I Am Enough book cover

Jabari Jumps book cover

Just Like a Mama book cover

Let the Children March book cover

Let's Talk About Race book cover

Little Leaders Bold Women book cover

Little Leaders Exceptional Men book cover

Mama Did You Hear book cover

Not Quite Snow White book cover

The Oldest Student book cover

The Other Side book cover

Pies from Nowhere book cover

The Proudest Blue book cover

Saturday book cover

Something Happened in Our Town book cover

Sulwe book cover

Trombone Shorty book cover

The Undefeated book cover

Whoosh book cover

The Youngest Marcher book cover

Books for Middle Grades 4-6

Betty Before X book cover

Black Brother Black Brother book cover

Blended book cover

Brown Girl Dreaming book cover

Clean Getaway book cover

Crossover book cover

Dictionary for a Better World book cover

From the Desk of Zoe Washington book cover

Genesis Begins Again book cover

Ghost book cover

Ghost Boys book cover

A Good Kind of Trouble book cover

The Harlem Charade book cover

It All Comes Down to This book cover

King and the Dragon Flies book cover

The Last Last Day of Summer

Look Both Ways book cover

New Kid book cover

The Parker Inheritance book cover

The Road to Paris book cover

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry book cover

The Season of Styx Malone book cover

The Stars Beneath Our Feet

Tristan book cover

The Watsons Go to Birmingham book cover

Ways to Make to Sunshine

We Are Not Yet Equal book cover

What Lane? book cover

Books for Young Adults, Grades 7-12

Akata Witch book cover

All American Boys book cover

All Boys Aren't Blue book cover

American Street book cover

Anger is a Gift book cover

Between the World and Me book cover

Binti book cover

Black Enough book cover

Black Flamingo book cover

Children of Blood and Bone book cover

Clap When You Land book cover

Dear Martin book cover

Felix Ever After book cover

The Hate U Give book cover

How It Went Down book cover

I Am Alfonso Jones book cover

I'm Not Dying With You Tonight book cover

Let Me Hear a Rhyme book cover

Light It Up book cover

Long Way Down book cover

March book cover

Miles Morales Spider Man book cover

Monster book cover

On the Come Up book cover

Pet book cover

Piecing Me Together book cover

The Revolution of Birdie Randolph book cover

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Slay book cover

So You Want to Talk About Race book cover

Stamped book cover

This Book is Anti-Racist book cover

Tyler Johnson Was Here book cover

We Can't Breathe book cover

Who Put This Song On? book cover

A Wreath for Emmett Till book cover

You Should See Me in a Crown book cover

Yummy book cover

Barracoon book cover

Born a Crime book cover

Eloquent Rage book cover

Emergent Strategy book cover

The Fire This Time book cover

Heavy book cover

Homegoing book cover

Hood Feminism book cover

How to be An Anti-Racist book cover

How We Fight for Our Lives book cover

I'm Still Here book cover

Just Mercy book cover

Me and White Supremacy book cover

Nickel Boys book cover

One Person, No Vote book cover

The Other Wes Moore book cover

Sing, Unburied, Sing book cover

So You Want to Talk About Race book cover

Stamped book cover

The Sun Does Shine book cover

The Can't Kill Us All book cover

This Will Be My Undoing book cover

The Underground Railroad book cover

Washington Black book cover

What Doesn't Kill You book cover

When They Call You a Terrorist book cover

White Fragility book cover

White Rage book cover

Why I'm No Longer Talking book cover