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All the colors we are
the story of how we get our skin color
Katie Kissinger
Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it. Includes notes for parents and teachers and activity ideas. Parallel text in English and Spanish.
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The Antiracist Kid
A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism
Tiffany Jewell
What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? The Antiracist Kid answers your questions about these words (and the big ideas behind them) and give you the tools to practice antiracism in your everday life!
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Can I Touch your Hair?
Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Irene Latham & Charles Waters
Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, present paired poems about topics including family dinners, sports, recess, and much more.
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Paula Young Shelton
Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Crown
An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Derrick Barnes
Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
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The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself, but later he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
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Don’t Touch My Hair!
Sharee Miller
Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without permission until, finally, she speaks up.
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Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.
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Goodnight Racism
Ibram X. Kendi
As children all over the world get ready for bed, the moon watches over them. The moon knows that when we sleep, we dream. And when we dream, we imagine what is possible and what the world can be. “Goodnight Racism” delivers important messages about antiracism, justice, and equality in an easy-to-read format that empowers readers both big and small.
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Our Skin
A First Conversation About Race
Megan Madison
An age-appropriate introduction to the concepts of race, gender, consent and body positivity.
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The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson
In 2007, Abigail Caldwell, the first female and African American city manager for the town of Lambert, South Carolina, was forced to resign after covertly digging up the municipal tennis courts in search of buried treasure. Now, a decade later, the late Abigail’s twelve-year-old granddaughter Candice is following the same arcane clues, hoping to uncover the Parker inheritance. But who was Parker?
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Something Happened in Our Town
A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard
After discussing the police shooting of a local Black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers that provides general guidance about addressing racism with children, child-friendly vocabulary definitions, conversation guides, and a link to additional online resources for parents and teachers.
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Sulwe
Lupita Nyong’o
When five-year-old Sulwe’s classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
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The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander
An ode to black American triumph and tribulation.