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Reading levels are indicated: “beginning” is for readers who are starting to learn English, while “intermediate” and “advanced” are for readers with some experience in the language. Click on the cover art to order the title from Amazon.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You
​by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
This reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's, Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. (advanced)
Lies My Teacher Told Me, Young Readers Edition: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong 
by Rebecca Steffoff & James Loewen
 Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen’s lively, provocative telling of American history is a “counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past” (The Nation). (advanced)
They Called Us Enemy
 by George Takei
Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Told in a black and white graphic novel format. (intermediate)
Torpedoed! The True Story of the WWII Sinking of “The Children’s Ship”
by Deborah Heiligman
In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. The boat and It’s passengers  never made it to Canada, but out of the tragedy, many heroes emerged. (intermediate)
Lost series
​by Tod Olson
Lost in the Amazon
On Christmas Eve, 1970, when flying over the Andes mountains, lightning strikes her plane and 17-year-old Juliane finds herself alone in the largest rainforest on Earth. (intermediate)
Through My Eyes                                
by Ruby Bridges
What would it be like to have to enter school every day through a crowd of people shouting at you, to be the only student in your first grade class? Ruby Bridges tells what it was like for her to be the first to integrate a school in New Orleans in 1960. (nonfiction) (intermediate)
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem 
by Rosalyn Schanzer
Examines the famous Massachusetts witch hunt that took more than a dozen lives and ruined hundreds more. (nonfiction) (advanced)
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