Racial Justice Reading Guide
Lower School
Primary (Jr. K, PreK, 1)
- I Walk With Vanessa: A Story About A Simple Act of Kindness by Kerascoët
- All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
- Skin Like Mine by Latishia M. Perry
- We’re Different, We’re the Same by Bobbi Kates, Joe Mathieu
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
- Get Up, Stand Up by Cedella Marley
Intermediate (2, 3, 4)
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
- Not Quite Snow White - Ashley Franklin
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- Lailah’s Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi
- The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Middle School
Middle Grade (5,6)
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Blended by Sharon Draper
- For Black Girls like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
- Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
- The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
- Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood, and illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
Young Adult (7,8)
- Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall and illustrated by A. D’Amico
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
- Just Mercy (Adapted for Young People): A True Story of the Fight for Justice, by Bryan Stevenson
- Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and illustrated by Aurélia Durand
*Many titles available through MackinVIA
Upper School Students, Parents, Educators and Alumnae
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Waking up White by Debby Irving
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Dr. Bettina Love