Activist Biographies

How Dare the Sun Rise

Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Claudette Colvin

Phillip Hoose

Crafting Change

Jessica Vitkus

King: a Life

Jonathan Eig

Mountains Beyond Mountains (adapted for Young People)

Tracy Kidder, Michael French

Being Jazz

Jazz Jennings

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

Andrea Warren

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (scholastic Focus)

Walter Dean Myers

Imaginary Borders

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

Hannah Testa

Food-related Stories

Gaby Melian

Girls Who Green the World

Diana Kapp

Defying China

Tsultrim Dolma, Rebecca Wei Hsieh

Champion

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld

When They Call You a Terrorist

Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele

No Barriers (the Young Adult Adaptation)

Erik Weihenmayer, Buddy Levy

Loudmouth

Deborah Heiligman

Messenger

Marc Bernardin

Victory. Stand!

Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes

Warriors Don't Cry

Melba Pattillo Beals

Beyond They/them

Em Dickson

I Have the Right to

Chessy Prout, Jenn Abelson

The Many Faces of Josephine Baker

Peggy Caravantes

The Book of Awesome Women

Becca Anderson

Wonderful Women of the World

Laurie Halse Anderson

Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri