#BlackLivesMatter Stories & Resources for Teens

Please check your local store for the Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition of Children of Blood and Bone – while supplies last. Tomi Adeyemi conj...

A 2021 National Book Awards Longlist SelectionWith passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as milit...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! “Gripping and timely.” —People “The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly “A b...

"The Ultimate Resistance Guidebook." — Bustle "This book will be a light in the darkness for some, and help guide them from despair."— BooklistAn...

Meet Tajon. Tajon is sixteen and black. He's tall and skinny, and he has dreadlocks. Tajon works hard and tries his best to be good. He does O.K....

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New Yor...

No Choirboy takes readers inside America's prisons and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voice...

A New York Times bestseller A William C. Morris Award Finalist “Should be required reading in every classroom.” —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bes...

Notes From Your BooksellerThe Cost of Knowing follows Alex, a teenage boy with the power to see the future of everything he touches. When this po...

The instant New York Times bestseller!Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, N...

Bryan Stevenson's incredible fight to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality comes to life in this young adult adapt...

A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers's New York Times bestseller Monster. Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative comin...

"One of the Good Ones is magic.” —Damon Young, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You BlackerA shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting ...

*31st Annual Lammy Finalist for LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult category**2019 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Teen Winner**Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Bo...

Patrisse Khan-Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience wi...

This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.In the summer of 1964, ...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United ...

"Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times b...

"Powerful, wrenching.” –John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down"Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS, New York...

"Incredible and searing." —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet...

An NPR Best Book of the Year * The stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. An incarcerated teen wr...

Sixteen tales by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic. With storie...

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems ...

How could a country founded on the honorable ideals of freedom and equality have so willingly embraced the evils of enslavement and oppression? A...

James Meredith's 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man's peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South's most importan...

A young man searches for answers after the death of his brother at the hands of police in this striking debut novel, for readers of The Hate U Gi...

Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength—as w...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK “Meet Tomi Adeyemi—the new J.K. Rowling. (Yep, she’s that good).” —Entertainment WeeklyAfter battling the i...

Notes From Your BooksellerThe Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating and significant events in United States history, and yet student...

#1 New York Times bestseller · Seven starred reviews · Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book “For all the struggle in this book, Thomas rarely ...

Notes From Your BooksellerAn unflinching look inside the American criminal justice system told from the perspective of a boy incarcerated for a c...

Notes From Your BooksellerAngie Thomas has delivered yet another pitch-perfect return to Garden Heights, set seventeen years before The Hate U Gi...

A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 19...