YA Books for Social Justice

Kids these days are so lucky! There so many great young adult (YA) books for them to choose from. Here are some of our favorites for social justice:

Social Justice

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj

From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1) by Janae Marks

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée

Dear Martin (Dear Martin #1) by Nic Stone

Dear Justyce (Dear Martin #2) by Nic Stone

The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1) by Angie Thomas

Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander

Linked by Gordon Korman

Ophie's Ghosts by Justina Ireland

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho

Voices of Justice: Poems about People Working for a Better World (Who Did It First?) by George Ella Lyon

March: Book One (March #1, #2, #3) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

Catherine's War by Julia Billet and Claire Fauvel

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

A Good Time to be a Girl by Leena Nair