RPL Social Justice Resources 2020

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1	Title	Author	Year	Description/Notes	Genre	Book Access	Audiobook Access	Topic	Experience	Notes

2	Simon vs.the Homo Sapiens Agenda	Abertalli, Becky	2015	Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or else his sexual identity will be exposed.	YA	Both	Both	LGBTQ+	LGBTQ+
3	The Poet X	Acevedo, Elizabeth	2018	When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join to school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mohter's expectations.	YA	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	Hispanic/Latinx	Explores "strong/angry" black woman" stereotypes
4	Americanah	Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi	2013	The story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
5	Chains	Anderson, Laurie Halse	2008	During the Revolutionary War a slave fights for freedom.	YA	Both	BCCLS	Racism	African American/Black
6	City of Saints and Thieves	Anderson, Natalie C.	2017	After fleeing the Congo as refuges, Tina and her mother arrive in Kenya and begin to work for a prominent family. Tina's mother is shot in the owner's personal study and she sets out for revenge.	YA	Both	n/a	Economic Inequality	African American/Black
7	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Baldwin, James	1953	A fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935	Adult	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
8	Crown	Barnes, Derrick	2017	Celebrates the magnificant feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.	Picture Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Ode to hairstyles for black boys
9	I Am Every Good Thing	Barnes, Derrick	2020	Homage to the strength, character and worth of a child.	Picture Book	Both	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Celebration of Black and brown children
10	Saving Savannah	Bolden, Tonya	2020	Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in DC until she meets a working class girl who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements.	YA	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
11	Summer Bird Blue	Bowman, Akemi Dawn	2018	After her sister dies in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.	YA	BCCLS	Libby	LGBTQ+	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
12	Grandma's Purse	Brantley-Newton, Vanessa	2018	When Grandma Mimi comes to visit, her granddaughter cannot wait to see what treasures she has hidden in her purse.	Picture Book	Both	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American families
13	All the Broken Piecs	Burg, Ann E.	2009	Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind.	YA	BCCLS	n/a	Immigration	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
14	Kindred	Butler, Octavia E.	1979	Dana, a modern Black woman, is transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned save him. Dana is drawn back, again and again, to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
15	Kindred	Butler, Octavia E.	2017	Dana, a modern Black woman, is transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned save him. Dana is drawn back, again and again, to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor.	Graphic Novel	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
16	This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story	Callender, Kacen	2018	Budding screenwriter Nate finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush moves back to town.	YA	BCCLS	Libby	LGBTQ+	Multiple/Other - See Notes	Black, LGBTQ+, Disability
17	King and the Dragonflies	Callender, Kacen	2020	In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond bayous of his backyard, to learn there is no right way to be yourself.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	LGBTQ+	African American/Black
18	Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice	Celano, Marianne	2018	Following a police shooting, two families - one white and one Black - discuss the event, its aftermath, and whatn they can do to help.	Picture Book	BCCLS	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
19	American Panda	Chao, Gloria	2018	A freshman at MIT tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations.	YA	Both	Both	First Generation American	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
20	Rent a Boyfriend	Chao, Gloria	2020	Chloe Wang hires a boyfriend to impress her parents and convince them she does not need to accept a proposal from a wealthy member of their community.	YA	Both	Libby	First Generation American	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
21	All Because You Matter	Charles, Tami	2020	An ode to Black and brown children that is filled with hope, assurance and love.	Picture Book	BCCLS	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Celebration of black and brown children
22	Hair Love	Cherry, Matthew A.	2019	A little girl's daddy steps her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful, self.	Picture Book	Both	Libby	Other - See Notes	African American/Black
23	Little Bee	Cleave, Chris	2008	Dual narrative story about a Nigerian asylum-seeker and a British magazine editor, who meet during the oil conflict in the Niger Delta, and are re-united in England several years later.	Adult	BCCLS	Both	Racism	African American/Black
24	Tyler Johnson Was Here	Coles, Jay	2018	When Marvin Johnson's twin brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by a police officer, Marvin must fight injustice to learn the true meaning of freedom.	YA	Both	BCCLS	Racism	African American/Black
25	New Kid	Craft, Jerry	2019	Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics.	YA Graphic Novel	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black family
26	Parker Looks Up	Curry, Parker	2019	A visit to Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry's young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait.	Picture Book	Both	BCCLS	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Michelle Obama as role modelfor young Black girls
27	Elijah of Buxton	Curtis, Christopher Paul	2007	Elijah uses his wits and skis to try to bring justice to the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.	Chapter Book	BCCLS	Libby	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Set in Black community in Canada during American slavery
28	Bud, Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul	1999	Ten-year-old Bud escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black protagonist
29	Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963	Curtis, Christopher Paul	2006	The everyday routines of the Watsons are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.	Chapter Book	BCCLS	BCCLS	Racism	African American/Black
30	Something in Between	de la Cruz, Melissa	2016	After learning of her family's illegal immigration status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and deportation is a real threat.	YA	Both	BCCLS	Immigration	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
31	Last Stop on Market Street	de la Peña, Matt	2015	A young boy rides the bus across town with his Grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.	Picture Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Intergenerational African Americans
32	Magnificent Homespun Brown	Doyon, Samara Cole	2020	Joyful young narrators celebrate feeling at home in one's own skin.	Picture Book	Both	BCCLS	Other - See Notes	African American/Black
33	Blended	Draper, Sharon	2018	Piano-prodigy Isabella whose Black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions effect school, her parents both become engaged and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Blended families, racial tension
34	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Ford, Jamie	2009	The plot centers around the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to internment camps; the book depicts the pain and trauma of separation through the friendship of the Chinese-American Henry and his Japanese-American friend Keiko	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
35	Picture Us in the Light	Gilbert, Kelly Loy	2018	Daniel must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend and his discovery of a family secert that could shatter everything.	YA	Both	n/a	LGBTQ+	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
36	The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street	Glaser, Karina Yan	2017	When their landlord decides not to renew their lease, five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	Multiple/Other - See Notes	Biracial family, diverse neighbors
37	Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel	Grimes, Nikki	2009	Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood but when she befriens a boy named Free she finally starts to feel at home.	Chapter Book	BCCLS	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black female protagonist
38	Bedtime for Sweet Creatures	Grimes, Nikki	2020	A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.	Picture Book	BCCLS	Libby	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black main character
39	Homegoing	Gyasi, Yaa	2016	Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, the novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
40	Delicious Foods	Hannaham, James	2015	A young widow with an addiction is lured away to a remote farm by a shady company called Delicious Foods, where she is held captive and forced into hard labor while she struggles to be reunited with her young son.	Adult	BCCLS	Both	Racism	African American/Black
41	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Hurston, Zora Neale	1937	The story of Janie who was married to a man she did not love and was not yet forty when Joe died. Then she found true happiness.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
42	Allegedly	Jackson, Tiffany	2017	Mary B. Addison, a nine year old Black girl, killed a white baby. Allegedly. She wants to set the record straight.	YA	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
43	Grown	Jackson, Tiffany	2020	Legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition and takes her under his wing. Then she wakes up with blood on her hands and no memory of the previous night.	YA	Both	BCCLS	Intersectional - See Notes	African American/Black	Racism, Sexism
44	Monday's Not Coming	Jackson, Tiffany	2018	When her friend Monday Charles goes missign and her mother refuses to give a straight answer, Claudia digs into her disappearance.	YA	Both	Libby	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Issues of race, class, gentrification
45	Henna Wars (The)	Jaigirdar, Adiba	2020	When a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, Flavia and Nishat both decide to showcase their talent as henna artists	YA	Both	Libby	LGBTQ+	Multiple/Other - See Notes	Indian, Brazilian
46	Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery	Johnson, Mat	2018	Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother -- and himself.	Graphic Novel	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black	Available on Hoopla
47	Incognegro: Renaissance	Johnson, Mat		When a Black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as a white man to find the true killer. Prequel to Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery	Graphic Novel	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black	Available on Hoopla
48	I'm Not Dying with You Tonight	Jones, Kimberly	2019	Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black and one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.	YA	Both	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
49	American Marriage (An)	Jones, Tayari	2018	The novel focuses on the marriage of a middle-class African-American couple, Roy and Celestial, who live in Atlanta and whose lives are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a rape he did not commit.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
50	Antiracist Baby	Kendi, Ibram	2020	Nine steps to improve equity such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences.	Picture Book	Both	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
51	I Walk with Vanessa	Kerasoet	2018	An elementary school girl witneses the bullying of another girl, but she is not sure how to help.	Picture Book	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
52	Namesake (The)	Lahiri, Jhumpa	2003	The story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States.	Adult	Both	BCCLS	Immigration	Indian American
53	Dreamland Burning	Latham, Jennifer	2017	The discovery of a skeleton connects the lives of two teens, a century apart, with the brutality and terror of the 1921 Tulsa race riots.	YA	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
54	The Downstairs Girl	Lee, Stacey	2019	Set in 1890, Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the daughter of one of the wealthest men in Atlanta. But at night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column.	YA	Both	Both	Racism	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
55	Going Down Home with Daddy	Lyons, Kelly Starling	2019	A young boy and his family take a trip down home to their grandparents' house for a reunion.	Picture Book	BCCLS	Libby	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American families
56	Light it Up	Magoon, Kekla	2019	Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing the community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.	YA	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
57	From the Desk of Zoe Washington	Marks, Janae	2021	Avid baker Zoe Washington recieves a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime.	Chapter Book	Both	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
58	Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky	Mbalia, Kwame	2019	Tristan Strong must entice the god Anasai to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American folk heros and West African gods
59	Lola at the Library	McQuinn, Anna	2006	Every Tuesday Lola dn her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.	Picture Book	BCCLS	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American families
60	Leo Loves Baby Time	McQuinn, Anna	2014	Leo loves to go to baby time where he sings, plays, and makes new friends.	Picture Book	BCCLS	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American families
61	Saturday	Mora, Oge	2019	When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.	Picture Book	BCCLS	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	African American families
62	Bluest Eye (The)	Morrison, Toni	1970	The story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grows up during the years following the Great Depression	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
63	Sulwe	Nyong'o, Lupita	2018	When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightenign herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.	Picture Book	Both	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Self love, colorism
64	There, There	Orange, Tommy	2018	The book explores the themes of Native peoples living in urban spaces (Urban Indians), and issues of ambivalence and complexity related to Natives' struggles with identity and authenticity.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	Native American
65	Anger is a Gift	Oshiro, Mark	2018	Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals in their own school.	YA	Both	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
66	Small Great Things	Picoult, Jodi	2016	The story of an African American labor and delivery nurse and the racism surrounding her care of a white supremacist couple's newborn son.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
67	Loretta Little Looks Back	Pinkney, Andrea Davis	2020	A Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927-1968.	Chapter Book	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
68	A Good Kind of Trouble	Ramee, Lisa	2019	After attending a protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.	Chapter Book	Both	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
69	Ruth and the Green Book	Ramsey, Calvin	2010	When Ruth and her parents take a trip from Chicago to Alabama they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them.	Picture Book	Both	BCCLS	Racism	African American/Black
70	Noteworthy	Redgate, Riley	2017	After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays, Jordan Sun auditions for an all-male octet hoping to perform internationally.	YA	Both	n/a	LGBTQ+	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
71	Such a Fun Age	Reid, Kiley	2019	The story of a young Black woman who is wrongly accused of kidnapping while babysitting a child and the events that follow it.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
72	All-American Boys	Reynolds, Jason	2015	A white woman trips over a Black boy and accusses him of stealing, resulting in the police being called. Both the boy and a white bystander have to deal with the fallout.	YA	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
73	Ghost	Reynolds, Jason	2016	Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black main characters
74	Long Way Down	Reynolds, Jason	2017	As Will sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.	YA	Both	Both	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	story of Black on Black violence
75	Ghost Boys	Rhodes, Jewel	2018	After seventh grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
76	All Kinds of Families	Simon, Norma	2016	Explores in words and pictures what a family is and how families vary in makeup and lifestyles.	Picture Book	Both	n/a	Other - See Notes	Multiple/Other - See Notes	multicultural and multigenerational families
77	Flygirl	Smith, Sherri L.	2009	During WWII, a light skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.	YA	BCCLS	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
78	Dear Justyce	Stone, Nic	2020	Incarcertated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded with over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.	YA	BCCLS	Libby	Racism	African American/Black
79	Dear Martin	Stone, Nic	2017	Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McCallister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.	YA	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
80	Odd One Out	Stone, Nic	2018	High school juniors and best friends Courtney andJupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and budding attractions for each other.	YA	Both	Libby	LGBTQ+	LGBTQ+
81	Clean Getaway	Stone, Nic	2020	A road-trip story through American race relations past and present.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
82	It's Not Like It's a Secret	Sugiura, Misa	2017	When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smar Jamie Ramirez.	YA	Both	n/a	LGBTQ+	Asian/Asian American & Pacific Islander
83	Lies We Tell Ourselves	Talley, Robin	2014	In 1959 Virgina a Black student and the daughter of a vocal segregationist have to work together on a class project.	YA	Both	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
84	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Taylor, Mildred	1976	A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
85	Hate U Give (The)	Thomas, Angie	2017	After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died	YA	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
86	On the Come Up	Thomas, Angie	2019	Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least get some streams on her mix tape. But when her mom unexpectedly loses her job and homelessness stares her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it, she has to make it.	YA	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
87	Color Purple (The)	Walker, Alice	1982	The story of two sisters - one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife in the South - who remain loyal to each other across time, distance, and silence.	Adult	Both	BCCLS	Racism	African American/Black
88	Black Boy White School	Walker, Brian F.	2012	Anthony "Ant" Jones gets transported from his East Cleveland hood to an almost all-white prep school and has to figure out before he belongs...before he loses himself entirely.	YA	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black
89	Piecing Me Together	Watson, Renee	2017	Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she is ever to succeed, accepting a scholarship to a mostly white private school to do so.	YA	Both	n/a	Intersectional - See Notes	African American/Black	Economic Inequality, Racism
90	Some Places More Than Others	Watson, Renee	2019	Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself.	Chapter Book	Both	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	family history
91	In Your Hands	Weatherford, Carole Boston	2017	A praryer from mother to son that he will always be in safe hands.	Picture Book	BCCLS	n/a	Other - See Notes	African American/Black	Black families
92	Nickle Boys (The)	Whitehead, Colson	2019	The novel follows Elwood Curtis, a studious African American from Tallahassee with a sense of justice, who is adjudicated delinquent and sent to Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory in Eleanor, Florida, after riding in a stolen vehicle to attend university classes.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black	Pulitzer Prize winner
93	Underground Railroad (The)	Whitehead, Colson	2016	The story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad.	Adult	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black	Pulitzer Prize winner
94	One Crazy Summer	Williams-Garcia, Rita	2010	Three children from Brooklyn visit their mother, who they barely know, in Oakland in 1968. She wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
95	One Crazy Summer	Williams-Garcia, Rita	2010	In the summer of 1968 after travelling to visit a mother they barely know, three girls attend a Black Panthers summer camp.	Chapter Book	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
96	Genesis Begins Again	Williams, Alicia	2019	Thirteen-year old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as she is.	Chapter Book	BCCLS	Both	Racism	African American/Black
97	Beauty That Remains (The)	Woodfolk, Ashley	2018	Autumn, Shay and Logan, whose lives intersect in complicated ways, each lose someone close to them and must work through their grief.	YA	Both	Libby	LGBTQ+	LGBTQ+
98	Brown Girl Dreaming	Woodson, Jacqueline	2014	Poetry describing what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 70s.	YA	Both	Both	Racism	African American/Black
99	The Day You Begin	Woodson, Jacqueline	2018	Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezula, introduces himself but later he meets Angelina and discovershe is not the only one who feels like an outsider.	Picture Book	Both	Libby	Immigration	African American/Black
100	The Other Side	Woodson, Jacqueline	2001	Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship anyways.	Picture Book	BCCLS	n/a	Racism	African American/Black