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• Dictionary for a Better World

  Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes From A to Z

  Latham, Irene,

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  Organized as a dictionary, entries in this book for middle-grade readers present words related to creating a better, more inclusive world.

• Genesis Begins Again

  Williams, Alicia, 1970-

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  A young girl named Genesis grapples with colorism, poverty, and her father's addictions, while learning to love herself despite her dark skin and the challenges her family faces.

• Front Desk

  Yang, Kelly,

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  A story about Mia Tang, a young Chinese-American girl who juggles managing a motel with her immigrant parents, navigating social issues like racism and poverty, while pursuing her dream of becoming a writer.

• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning.

• The Antiracist Kitchen

  21 Stories (and Recipes)

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  The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes) is a celebration of food, family, activism and resistance in the face of racism.

• Pirate Queen

  a Story of Zheng Yi Sao

  Becker, Helaine,

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  The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the early 1800s.

• Harbor Me

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world.

• A Good Kind of Trouble

  Ramée, Lisa Moore,

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  After attending a powerful 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.

• Look Both Ways

  a Tale Told in Ten Blocks

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school.

• Blended

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills),

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  Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

• Powwow

  a Celebration Through Song and Dance

  Pheasant-Neganigwane, Karen

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  Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series for middle readers. Illustrated with photographs, Powwow is a celebration of Indigenous song and dance in North America.

• Stella by Starlight

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

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  When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.

• Malala

  My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  Malala retells her story of speaking out for girls' education rights for chapter book readers.

• King and the Dragon Flies

  Callender, Kacen

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  Twelve-year-old Kingston James grapples with grief over his brother's death, his own emerging sexuality, and the secret of his best friend's abusive home life, while navigating a small Louisiana town and its secrets.

• How High the Moon

  Parsons, Karyn, 1968-

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  Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.

• Revenge of the Red Club

  Harrington, Kim, 1974-

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  When middle school journalist Riley Dunne learns that an important and beloved club is being shut down, she uses the power of the pen to instigate much-needed social change.

• For Black Girls Like Me

  Lockington, Mariama,

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  Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.

• Bud, Not Buddy

  Curtis, Christopher Paul,

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  Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.