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• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a story about police violence and racism, and a sixteen-year-old girl caught between two worlds. Angie Thomas has emerged as a powerful voice in YA, tackling issues facing African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piecing Me Together

  Watson, Renée

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  A thoughtful coming of age story about a teenage girl from a poor neighbourhood striving for success. Jade attends a mostly-white private school on a scholarship and is tired of being singled out as an ‘at-risk’ student in need of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tyler Johnson Was Here

  Coles, Jay

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  A powerfully emotional examination of police brutality. When Marvin’s twin Tyler goes to a party, he decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun, turns into a shooting and a police raid. Tyler…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic, pseud., 1985-

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  Justyce McAllister is aiming for an Ivy League college, balancing friendships and school, and navigating life as a young African American man. To cope with the injustices he faces, he studies the writing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poet X

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth

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  This novel utilises poetry to convey an emotional coming-of-age story about developing your voice and identity. When Xiomara is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Street

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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  Ibi Zoboi intertwines mysticism and realistic grit to create a breath-taking story about holding onto your values as your find your place in the world. After they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Race relations and police brutality are key themes in this story told from alternating viewpoints. Rashad has been falsely accused of stealing, and Quinn is a witness to the brutal beating Rashad suffered at the hands of a police officer -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How It Went Down

  Magoon, Kekla

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  The facts are these: Tariq Johnson, African American, was shot dead by white Jack Franklin, who then fled the scene. Everything else is in dispute. Told through the perspectives of eyewitnesses, family members, and a senatorial candidate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black, White, Other

  in Search of Nina Armstrong

  Lester, Joan Steinau, 1940-

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  Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbehaviour, while learning of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hypnotist

  Anholt, Laurence

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  Set in the Deep South of America in the 1960s, it is a story of black orphan Pip who is adopted by a white farming family, only to find that their son has links with the Ku Klux Klan. This historical novel has elements of mystery and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreamland Burning

  Latham, Jennifer

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  Told in two interwoven stories of the past and the present. 100 years ago, Will Tillman lived in a town separated by Jim Crow segregation laws and violence against blacks. In the present, Rowan finds s a skeleton buried on her family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Dove, White Raven

  Wein, Elizabeth E., 1964-

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  A captivating and atmospheric historical novel. Emilia and Teo's mothers are stunt pilots - but when Teo's mother is killed, Em's mother takes him in. In 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lies We Tell Ourselves

  Talley, Robin

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  Two compelling teenage voices present a story of self-exploration from either side of a segregated community. In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patron Saints of Nothing

  Ribay, Randy

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  A powerful coming-of-age story about grief and the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and the immigrant identity. When seventeen-year-old Jay Regeuro learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Aurora

  Kasmer, Elizabeth

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  A succinctly, but sensitively, told Australian coming-of-age story about racism, asylum seekers, friendship, treatment of the elderly, and the ties that bind families. Sixteen-year-old Rory proudly takes the fall for her gang’s attack on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  An award winning, hilarious and heart-breaking look at race in America. Junior, a budding cartoonist, leaves his school on the Native American Reservation to go to an all-white farm town school, where the only other Indian is the school…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bugs

  Hereaka, Whiti

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  A gritty coming-of-age story that follows the unfolding lives of three teens in a small New Zealand town. Main character Bugs is raised by single mother, Nikki, who works long hours to support them. She knows Bugs is smart and doesn't want…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

  Nwaubani, Adaobi

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  Based on the real-life experiences of Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a radicalist group. Told through poetical but emotionally powerful vignettes, the unnamed narrator vividly describes growing up in a Nigerian village, and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Enough

  Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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  This short story collection features stories from stand-out writers like Ibi Zoboi, Lamar Giles, Nic Stone, Jason Reynolds, and many more. The stories delve into the thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Born Chinese

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  This graphic novel presents three interrelated stories about the challenges Chinese Americans face participating in pop culture. It examines how stereotypes – often purported in pop culture – result in racial alienation.