Awards search:Penn GSE's Best Books for Young Readers

Angel of Greenwood

by Randi Pink
Paperback, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, FICTION, historical fiction, Tulsa Race Massacre, civil rights, violence, racism, romance
Barcode
1762
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

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

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo
Paperback, 2021
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, LGBTQIA, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Chinese-American, coming of age, queer romance, Kirkus Starred Review, San Francisco, racism — 1 more, prejudice
Barcode
2007
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

The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art

by Cynthia Levinson
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, RELIGION, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NONFICTION, biography, Jewish, Judaism, Hebrew, Yiddish — 9 more, art, painting, protest, photography, poverty, court case, artist, Lithuania, deportation
Barcode
1655
Status
Available
Call number
759.13

I Sang You Down from the Stars

by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, mother, new baby, birth, love, Cree, Inniniwak
Barcode
1749
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dad Bakes

by Katie Yamasaki
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, FAMILIES, GENDER, PICTURE BOOK, gender roles, former incarceration, cooking, baking
Barcode
1751
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

by Paula Yoo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, TEEN, NONFICTION, civil rights, violence, court case, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1753
Status
Available
Call number
305.895

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

by Kwame Mbalia Editor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE GRADES, Short stories, boyhood, masculinity, self-esteem, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1640
Status
Available
Call number
813.0080896073

Amira's Picture Day

by Reem Faruqi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, RELIGION, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, Eid, PICTURE BOOK, Muslim
Barcode
1610
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
LGBTQIA, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Kirkus Starred Review, San Francisco, racism, prejudice
Barcode
1729
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Dragon Thief (Dragons in a Bag)

by Zetta Elliott
Paperback, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUVENILE, FICTION, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, indian-american, fantasy
Series
Dragons in a Bag (2)
Barcode
1605
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Rebecca Hall
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
ADULT, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, Kirkus Starred Review, history, NON-FICTION, graphic
Barcode
1592
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

Too Bright to See

by Kyle Lukoff
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUVENILE, LGBTQIA, GENDER, transgender, coming out, gender identity, Kirkus Starred Review, Stonewall Book Award, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
1587
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Unsettled

by Reem Faruqi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Refugees & immigrants, RELIGION, women & girls, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, Own Voices, Islam, Pakistan, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, bullying, coming of age — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1525
Status
Available

Sulwe

by Lupita Nyong'o
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, colorism, skin color, self-esteem, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1492
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Show Me a Sign

by Ann Clare LeZotte
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, BODIES AND ABILITIES, prejudice, racism, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, deafness, sign language, WOMEN AND GIRLS, historical fiction, ages 8 - 14, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Mary Lambert (1)
Barcode
1456
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Take Back the Block

by Chrystal D. Giles
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, FICTION, 9 - 13 years, community, Activism, gentrification
Barcode
1435
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Beautifully Me

by Nabela Noor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 7 years, body positivity, Muslim, Bangladeshi-American, Bengali, own voices — 2 more, Kirkus Starred Review, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
Barcode
1426
Status
Available

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, history, American History, black history, racial violence, 8 - 12 years
Barcode
1421
Status
Available
Call number
976.6

Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales, a DACA Recipient

by Areli Morales
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
LATINX, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, NON-FICTION, immigration, DACA, 4 - 8 years
Barcode
1420
Status
Available
Call number
305.23086

Internment

by Samira Ahmed
Paperback, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, RELIGION, TEEN, Muslim, Islam, Islamophobia, xenophobia, resistance, youth activism, protest — 2 more, FICTION, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2174
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!

by Jessica Kim
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, FICTION, comedy, Korean American, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2040
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Moon Within

by Aida Salazar
Paperback, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, GENDER, LGBTQIA, MIDDLE GRADES, FICTION, puberty, ritual, coming of age, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1842
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, slavery, enslavement, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1642
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

by Saundra Mitchell
Paperback, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, TEEN, Short stories, historical fiction, fantasy, queer, transgender, Asexual
Barcode
1618
Status
Available
Call number
813.608

The Poet X

by Elizabeth Acevedo
Paperback, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, RELIGION, poetry, grade 8 and up, TEEN, FICTION
Barcode
1472
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

by George M. Johnson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, ADULT, memoir, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1457
Status
Available
Call number
306.76

The Paper Kingdom

by Helena Ku Rhee
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
FAMILIES, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 7 years, working parents, imagination, night shift
Barcode
1279
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

My Rainbow

by DeShanna Neal
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, BODIES AND ABILITIES, own voices, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, transgender, autism, hair, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1265
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Your Name Is a Song

by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, names, own voices, Kirkus Starred Review, Muslim family
Barcode
1248
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

We Are Water Protectors

by Carole Lindstrom
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices, environmentalism, environmental justice, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1249
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Nibi is Water

by Joanne Robertson
Board book, 2020
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, BOARD BOOK, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Ojibwe, own voices, water rights, environmentalism
Barcode
1207
Status
Available
Call number
333.91

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, freedom, reading, civil rights
Barcode
1179
Status
Available
Call number
306.3

Kingdom of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, 1)

by Rena Barron
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, fantasy, orisha
Series
Kingdom of Souls (1)
Barcode
1955
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Bridge Home

by Padma Venkatraman
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, FICTION, FAMILIES, BODIES AND ABILITIES, sisters, loss, loss of sibling, homelessness, domestic violence — 5 more, India, friendship, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, intellectual disability, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1888
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Indian No More

by Charlene Willing McManis
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, DIVERSITY, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, reservation, Indian Relocation Program, tribal termination, Native American, Native author, moving, Umpqua — 5 more, racism, prejudice, civil rights, MIDDLE GRADES, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1873
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds
Paperback, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, 12 and up, Social issues, Family Life, TEEN, FAMILIES, loss, loss of sibling
Barcode
1471
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

by Erika L. Sánchez
Paperback, 2019
Tags
FICTION, TEEN, LATINX, grade 10 and up, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES
Barcode
1470
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People)

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Paperback, 2019
Tags
JUSTICE, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, 12 and up, history, American History, NON-FICTION, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Series
ReVisioning American History for Young People
Barcode
1314
Status
Available
Call number
970.004

Booked (The Crossover Series)

by Kwame Alexander
Paperback, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, sports, Soccer, divorce, MIDDLE GRADES, grades 5 - 7, poetry
Series
The Crossover (2)
Barcode
1171
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

Bilal Cooks Daal

by Aisha Saeed
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, 4 - 8 years, Kirkus Starred Review, food, cooking, South Asian
Barcode
1174
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

by Tahereh Mafi
Paperback, 2019
Tags
RELIGION, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, 12 - 18 years, TEEN, Islam, Islamophobia, racism, coming of age
Barcode
1151
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

by Adib Khorram
Paperback, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, BODIES AND ABILITIES, TEEN, 12 - 17 years, mental illness, Depression, Iran, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, series
Series
Darius the Great (1)
Barcode
1157
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

This Place: 150 Years Retold

by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Paperback, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, TEEN, grade 9 and up, graphic memoir, graphic novel, own voices, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, First Nations — 2 more, indigenous, Canada
Barcode
1181
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

With the Fire on High

by Elizabeth Acevedo
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, DIVERSITY, LGBTQIA, TEEN, grade 9 and up, coming of age, teen parent, grandmother — 2 more, Puerto Rico, cooking
Barcode
1194
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

SHOUT

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, sexual assault, rape, memoir, poetry, survival
Barcode
1109
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

The Undefeated

by Kwame Alexander
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, 6 - 12 years, poetry, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1120
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 6 years, Native American, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native author, own voices
Barcode
1117
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

by Eloise Greenfield
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, grades 3 - 6, midwives, birth
Barcode
1124
Status
Available
Call number
618.2
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