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Black Lives Matter - Resource List: Children's & Young Adult Books - Graphic Novels

Library Resources that explore race and racism in history and in current culture.

Children's & Teen Books

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
ISBN: 9781481463331
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Antiracist Baby Picture Book by Ibram X. Kendi; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780593110508
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz; Renée Watson; Renée Watson
ISBN: 9780374306106
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson; Rafael López (Illustrator); Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399246531
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
ISBN: 9781984829665
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
ISBN: 9781101939499
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689828845
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN: 9780316262286
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525553366
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Harlem's Little Blackbird (eBook) by Renée Watson; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780375985379
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061730764
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439777339
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
I Am Enough by Grace Byers; Keturah A. Bobo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062667120
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ebony Wilkins; Steffi Walthall (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781338788921
I Like Myself! (board Book) by Karen Beaumont; David Catrow (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0544641019
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781479558209
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Kamala Harris by Nikki Grimes; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534462670
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781524740740
Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty; Bryan Collier (Artist)
ISBN: 9780316209175
Publication Date: 2013-12-17
Lillian's Right to Vote (eBook) by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780385390309
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780316475112
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780385734912
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 0064407314
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0786851759
Native Son by Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780060837563
Publication Date: 2005-08-02
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN: 9780060760908
Publication Date: 2011-12-27
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0803774737
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
Sewing Stories (eBook) by Barbara Herkert; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0385754620
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Skin Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry
ISBN: 9781734086560
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano; Marietta Collins; Ann Hazzard; Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781433828546
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
A Splash of Red: the Life and Art of Horace Pippin (eBook) by Melissa Sweet (Illustrator); Jen Bryant
ISBN: 0375867120
Publication Date: 2013-01-08
We March by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596435391
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson; Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618397525
You Are Enough: a book about inclusion by Margaret O'Hair; Sofia Cardoso (Illustrator); Sofia Sanchez
ISBN: 9781338630749

Graphic Novels

Art Masters: Basquiat by Julian Voloj (Text by); Søren Glosimodt Mosdal (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781910593653
Publication Date: 2019-07-02
Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith; Jared Reinmuth; Ameziane (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781684154791
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
Black by Kwanza Osajyefo; Jamal Igle (Artist); Robin Riggs (Artist); Derwin Roberson (Artist); Tim Smith (Artist)
ISBN: 162875186X
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Black Cotton Star by Yves Sente; Steve Cuzor; Allison Charette (Translator)
ISBN: 9781643132051
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
The Black Panther Party by David F. Walker; Marcus Kwame Anderson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781984857705
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Bttm Fdrs by Ben Passmore; Ezra Claytan Daniels
ISBN: 9781683962069
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story by Peter Bagge
ISBN: 9781770462694
Publication Date: 2017-03-21
Fire on the Water by Scott Macgregor; Gary Dumm (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419741166
Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys; Brittney Williams (Illustrator); Andrew Weiner
ISBN: 9780063029569
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
ISBN: 9781770463486
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
Incognegro: a Graphic Mystery (New Edition) by Mat Johnson; Warren Pleece (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781506705644
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
ISBN: 9781419709470
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
King by Ho Che Anderson
ISBN: 9781606993101
Publication Date: 2010-02-28
March: Book 1 by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
March: Book 2 by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin
ISBN: 9780606365475
Publication Date: 2015-01-27
March: Book 3 by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Medgar Evers and the NAACP by Gary Jeffrey
ISBN: 9781433974953
Publication Date: 2012-08-01
Monster by Guy A. Sims; Dawud Anyabwile (Illustrator); Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9780062274991
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant
ISBN: 9781549303050
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Parable of the Sower: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; Damian Duffy (Adapted by); John Jennings (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419731334
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
Represent! by Christian Cooper; Alitha Martinez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781779514196
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Run by L. Fury (Illustrator); Nate Powell (Illustrator); John Lewis; Andrew Aydin
ISBN: 9781419730696
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
ISBN: 9781469663272
Publication Date: 2021-03-08
The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long; Jim Demonakos; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250164988
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Strange Fruit by Joel Christian Gill; Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781938486296
Publication Date: 2014-05-01
To Kill a Mockingbird (graphic Novel) by Harper Lee; Fred Fordham
ISBN: 9780062798183
Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Two Dead by Van Jensen; Nate Powell
ISBN: 9781501168956
Publication Date: 2019-11-19
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
ISBN: 9781945509209
Publication Date: 2018-04-15

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Subjects: Controversial Issues, Digital Displays, History, Humanities, Literature

Tags: antiracism, antiracist, black lives matter, race, racism, white privilege