Awards search:Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
TEEN, LGBTQIA, JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, hate crime
Barcode
261
Status
Available
Call number
364.15

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

by Brandy Colbert
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, NON-FICTION, racism, American History, black history, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1648
Status
Available
Call number
976.6

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

by Richard Rodriguez
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
LATINX, JUSTICE, ADULT, NON-FICTION, American History
Barcode
1168
Status
Available
Call number
305.868073

Chicken Sunday

by Patricia Polacco
Paperback, 1998
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, RELIGION, PICTURE BOOK, Easter, Christianity, Judaism, Ukrainian character, Ukraine
Barcode
787
Status
Available
Call number
306.85

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

by Angela Joy
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, racism, civil rights, activism, Kirkus Starred Review, MIDDLE GRADES, graphic non-fiction, biography
Barcode
1988
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

by Margarita Engle
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Cuba, drums, feminism, gender equality, GENDER, music
Barcode
1297
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Escape from Aleppo

by N. H. Senzai
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, War, coming of age, FICTION, Syria, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
337
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Home Is Not a Country

by Safia Elhillo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, RELIGION, TEEN, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, Sudan, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, Friendship, Kirkus Starred Review — 1 more, Africa
Barcode
1876
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Landed

by Milly Lee
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, China, Chinese-American, 7 - 11 years, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
Barcode
715
Status
Available
Call number
493

Melissa (Previously Published as George)

by Alex Gino
Paperback, 2022
Tags
LGBTQIA, transgender, grades 4 - 6, chapter book, MIDDLE GRADES, GENDER, gender identity
Barcode
2069
Status
Checked out
Call number
813.6

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (Picture Puffin)

by Alan Schroeder
Paperback, 2000
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, historical fiction, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years
Barcode
398
Status
Available
Call number
305.567092

Mirror Season

by Anna-Marie Mclemore
Paperback, 2022
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, LGBTQIA, TEEN, sexual assault, consent, speaking out
Barcode
1720
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Outside In

by Deborah Underwood
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, nature
Barcode
1418
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Picture Us In The Light

by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
TEEN, FICTION, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, LGBTQIA, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, FAMILIES, adoption, 14 and up, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
507
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Smoky Night

by Eve Bunting
Paperback, 1999
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, 6 - 9 years
Barcode
342
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, biography, music, singing, civil rights, American History — 3 more, black history, opera, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2053
Status
Available
Call number
782.1092

Wonderstruck (Schneider Family Book Award - Middle School Winner)

by Brian Selznick
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, MIDDLE GRADES, FICTION, graphic novel, text, deafness, FAMILIES, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2042
Status
Available
Call number
813.6
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