Book — Non-fiction. By Robert Cohen. 2018. 312 pages.
A historical overview and diary entries from Howard Zinn's years as an activist professor at Spelman College.
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Book — Non-Fiction. By Howard Zinn. 1959. Reprinted in 2010. 302 pages.
The life and career of New Deal era New York politician Fiorello LaGuardia.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Alex Wheatle. 2020. 192 pages.
Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky's War in Jamaica in 1760.
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Book — Historical fiction. By María Dolores Águila. 2025. 304 pages.
A middle grade novel in verse based on the true story of Roberto Alvarez and the fight for education equity in Lemon Grove.
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Book — Fiction. By Beverley Naidoo 2022. 220 pages.
Without the mention of Palestine, Beverley Naidoo introduces young readers to Palestinian social reality, and the song of defiance that resonates from the Time Before until today.
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Book — Historical fiction. Written and illustrated by Pablo Leon. 2025. 240 pages.
A graphic novel about Guatemalan immigrant youth who learn about the dictatorship in Guatemala through conversations with their mother.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Debra J. Stone. 2025. 104 pages.
A young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Amina Luqman-Dawson. 2023. 416 pages.
A lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children‘s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.
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Book — Historical Fiction. By Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 2024. 208 pages.
A portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in poems and artwork.
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Book — Fiction. By Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and illustrated by John Jennings. 2021. 288 pages.
A graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel about unattended environmental and economic crises.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2012. 320 pages.
A historical middle grade story about a young Revolutionary War soldier.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2017. 320 pages.
A historical fiction middle grade adventure about a struggle for freedom during the Revolutionary War.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2025. 416 pages.
A historical fiction middle grade adventure about a girl struggling to survive amid a smallpox epidemic, the public’s fear of inoculation, and the seething Revolutionary War.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Jewell Parker Rhodes. 2025. 208 pages.
A chapter book on the experience of a late 19th century era Black family participating in the Oklahoma Land Rush.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kevin A. Young. 2024. 264 pages.
Offers lessons for building a multiracial, working-class climate movement that can win a global green transition that’s both rapid and equitable.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Marcus Rediker and David Lester, with Paul Buhle. 2024. 176 pages.
This book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social order.
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Book — Fiction. By Nadine Pinede. 2024. 432 pages.
This story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self-determination in 1930s Haiti.
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Book — Fiction. By Nora Lester Murad. Illustrated by Kate Cosgrove. 2022. 223 pages.
A coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging through a Palestinian-American girl named Ida.
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Book — Historical fiction. By Tananarive Due. 2023. 576 pages.
Follow 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr., who journeys into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
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Book — Fiction. By Kelly McWilliams. 2023. 320 pages.
This young adult novel introduces readers to the history of slavery and its legacy today, challenging the Lost Cause narrative offered to visitors at most plantations (prison labor camps).
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Book — Historical fiction. By Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell. 2016. 224 pages.
This award-winning children's book follows a young Indigenous girl's quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
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Book — Fiction. By Lesa Cline-Ransome. 2021. 256 pages.
The final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy, this novel examines mid-twentieth century America through the eyes of Clem, a young boy whose family is torn apart after his father's untimely death.
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Book — Fiction. By Natalia Sylvester. 2020. 328 pages.
A story that celebrates young people who find themselves as they come to political consciousness and commitment.
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Book — Fiction. By Michelle Coles. Illustrations by Justin Johnson. 2021. 368 pages.
A powerful coming-of-age story and an eye-opening exploration of the Reconstruction era.
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Book — Fiction. By Jewell Parker Rhodes. 2023 paperback release. 256 pages.
A powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change.
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