Juvenile & Young Adult / Social Situations / Prejudice & Racism

Sugar

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack...

42: The Jackie Robinson Story: The Movie Novel

by Aaron Rosenberg

A movie tie-in novel about Jackie Robinson's life story. In theaters 4/12/13. A novel based on the movie 42--a biopic about Jackie Robinson's history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African...

Not a Chance

by Michelle Mulder

Dian is outraged when her fourteen-year-old Dominican friend announces that she is engaged to be married.

The Liberty Circle

by Phil Campagna

Life at home isn't easy for sixteen-year-old Corey. When he sees an ad for a retreat called Camp Liberty, he can't wait to get away. But Corey has no idea of what he's in for, as he and his fellow campers are...

Trial By Fire

by Sheila Dalton

Raised by a white mother and never having known his native father, Nathan must cope with prejudice and stereotypes. When he meets Sally, he finds someone who believes in him. But when Sally's house torched by...

Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel

by Gigi Amateau

An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser's Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man's life. In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia,...

Burning Up

by Caroline B. Cooney

Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare loves her Connecticut hometown, where her mother grew up and her grandparents still live, and she likes visiting her grandparents even more now that their neighbors’ handsome grandson,...

Fire in the Streets

by Kekla Magoon

What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie’s choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River.

Bad things happen in the heat, they say.

     Maxie knows all about...

Jump into the Sky

by Shelley Pearsall

Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's...

The Lynching of Louie Sam

by Elizabeth Stewart

Racism, murder, and injustice wreak havoc in a frontier town.

Copper Sun

by Sharon M. Draper

Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,

fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her...

Slave Day

by Rob Thomas

Keene Davenport has called for a student walkout to protest his school’s annual “Slave Day” fundraiser, but it’s not exactly working. Shawn Greeley, the first African American student council president...

Alice in Charge

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

It’s the beginning of Alice’s senior year and she finds herself facing some difficult situations. A sudden increase in vandalism at the school leads Alice to discover an angry and violent group of students—teenage...

Precious Bones

by Mika Ashley-Hollinger

Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her...

Crow

by Barbara Wright

The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his...

Freedom Train

by Evelyn Coleman & David Riley

Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boys struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South.

Its 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother...

Last Days in Africville

by Dorothy Perkyns

In mid-1960s Halifax, 12-year-old Selina is growing up in a tightly knit community of African-Canadians whose days are numbered when ugly rumours surface about the fate of Africville.

Something to Hold

by Katherine Schlick Noe

Can a white girl feel at home on an Indian reservation? Based on the author’s childhood experience in the early 1960s, this debut novel centers on Kitty, whose father is a government forester at Warm Springs...

The Tori Trilogy: Just Tori, Tori and the New Girl, and Tori's Wish

by Alicia Danielle Danielle Voss-Guillén

Now available in a single volume, Alicia Danielle Voss-Guillén's three book Tori trilogy is perfect for all middle-grade readers. This bundle includes the following books:

JUST TORI: Meet Tori Salinas. She's...

The Tori Trilogy: Just Tori, Tori and the New Girl, and Tori's Wish

by Alicia Danielle Voss-Guillén

Now available in a single volume, Alicia Danielle Voss-Guillén's three book Tori trilogy is perfect for all middle-grade readers. This bundle includes the following books:

JUST TORI: Meet Tori Salinas. She's...