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Characters looking for equity & justice

We the Resistance by Michael Long (Editor)
The Stonewall Riots by Gayle E. Pitman
Colorblind by by Johnathan Harris
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
#Notyourprincess by Lisa Charleyboy (Editor)
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar; Kathleen Van Cleve
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) by Bryan A. Stevenson
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Attucks! by Phillip Hoose
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
March (graphic) by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
American Born Chinese (graphic) by Gene Luen Yang
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Anne Frank's Diary by by Anne Frank

Great characters with different backgrounds

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
There's Something about Sweetie by Sandhya Menon
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh; Elsie Chapman
Iron River by Daniel Acosta
Swing by Kwame Alexander; Mary Rand Hess
Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Saints, Misfits, Monsters, and Mayhem by S. K. Ali
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds
The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling
ISBN: 9781454929246
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
ISBN: 9781534419292
ISBN: 9781616207007
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator)

People in other lands/Coming to America

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
In the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen
Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide
Voces Sin Fronteras by Latin American Youth Center Writers
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
29 Dates by Melissa De la Cruz
American Like Me by America Ferrera
They Call Me Güero by David Bowles
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
The Unwanted by Don Brown
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
Refugee by Alan Gratz
A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
Taking Flight: from War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela Deprince; Elaine Deprince
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Auma's Long Run by Eucabeth Odhiambo
Shahana by Rosanne Hawke
A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Learning about/from people who are different

Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi (Editor)
History vs Women: the Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know by Anita Sarkeesian & Ebony Adams (Editors)
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
The Color of Lies by C.J. Lyons