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Read Woke Challenge: For Families

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Read one of these books together as a family
Watch Sesame Street and CNN's Coming Together: Standing Up To Racism
Take a look at Daniel Tiger's "Alike and Different" Learning Kit
Play an online game from Games for Change that engage topics in social issues (be sure to scroll down to browse to filter by age group)

African American and Black Voices

Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 92 Reeves
ISBN: 9780822567646
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 811 Ale
ISBN: 9781328780966
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
Call Number: J Fict Cra (Graphic Novel) or Middle Grade TEEN Cra. Available in multiple formats.
ISBN: 9780062691194
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
2020 Newbery Award Winner. From 8 Years to 12 Years.
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Number: J Fict Cur
ISBN: 9780385323062
Publication Date: 1999-09-07
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: J B Woodson
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28

Asian American Voices

A Big Bed for Little Snow by Grace Lin
Call Number: JP Fict Lin
ISBN: 9780316478366
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Drawn Together by Dan Santat (Illustrator, Cover Design by); Minh Lê
Call Number: JP Fict San
ISBN: 9781484767603
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Call Number: J Fict Yan
ISBN: 9781338157796
Publication Date: 2018-05-29
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
Call Number: J Fict Lai
ISBN: 9780061962783
Publication Date: 2011-02-22

Voices of Those Experiencing Poverty and Homelessness

Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt; Vin Vogel (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Bra
ISBN: 9781936261291
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
A Different Pond by Bao Phi; Thi Bui (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Phi
ISBN: 9781479597468
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
Call Number: J Fict App
ISBN: 9781250043238
Publication Date: 2015-09-22

Hispanic American Voices

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Qui
ISBN: 9780525553410
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Islandborn by Junot Díaz; Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Dia
ISBN: 9780735229860
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
Call Number: J Fict Beh
ISBN: 9780525516477
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera; Lauren Castillo (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Her
ISBN: 9780763690526
Publication Date: 2018-09-25

Native People's Voices

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell; Frané Lessac (Illustrator)
Call Number: Cherokee J 299.7 Sor
ISBN: 9781580897723
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Lin
ISBN: 9781250203557
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
Makoons by Louise Erdrich (Illustrator)
Call Number: J Fict Erd
ISBN: 9780060577933
Publication Date: 2016-08-09

Voices of Immigration

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Call Number: J Fict Rya
ISBN: 9780439120425
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Call Number: JB Morales
ISBN: 9780823440559
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
What Is a Refugee? by Elise Gravel
Call Number: J 305.9 Gra
ISBN: 9780593120057
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai
ISBN: 9781442401945
Publication Date: 2012-04-03
Paper Son: the Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung; Chris Sasaki (Illustrator)
Call Number: J B Wong
ISBN: 9781524771874
Publication Date: 2019-09-24

Social Justice

Woke by Mahogany L. Browne; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator); Jason Reynolds (Contribution by); Elizabeth Acevedo; Olivia Gatwood
Call Number: J 811.6 Bro
ISBN: 9781250311207
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
Call Number: J 305.8 Hig
ISBN: 9781948340007
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
This Book is Anti Racist by by Tiffany Jewell
Call Number: TEEN 305.8 Jew
ISBN: 9780711245211
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
Call Number: J 303.3 We
ISBN: 9780525580423
Publication Date: 2018-09-04

LGBTQA+ Voices

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff; Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Luk
ISBN: 9781620148372
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Bunnybear by Andrea J. Loney; Carmen Saldaña (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Lon
ISBN: 9780807509388
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
Call Number: J Fict Ost
ISBN: 9781338089516
Publication Date: 2017-10-31

Diverse Abilities

Tuesday Tucks Me In by Luis Carlos Montalván; Bret Witter; Dan Dion (Photographer)
Call Number: J 362.4 Mon
ISBN: 9781596438910
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca; Daniel Rieley (Illustrator)
Call Number: JB Grandin
ISBN: 9781943147304
Publication Date: 2017-08-29
Can You See Me? by Libby Scott; Rebecca Westcott
Call Number: J Fuct Sco
ISBN: 9781338608915
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Call Number: J Fict Pal
ISBN: 9780375869020
Publication Date: 2012-02-14
We're All Wonders by R. J. Palacio
Call Number: JP Fict Pal
ISBN: 9781524766498
Publication Date: 2017-03-28

Female Voices

Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor; Rafael López (Illustrator); Rafael López (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Fict Sot
ISBN: 9780525514121
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Girls Resist! by KaeLyn Rich; Giulia Sagramola (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 320.4083 Ric
ISBN: 9781683690597
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Greta and the Giants by Zoe Tucker
Call Number: JP Fict Tuc
ISBN: 9780876172773
Publication Date: 2020-03-01
I Dissent by Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator)
Call Number: J B Ginsburg
ISBN: 9781481465595
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz; Miriam Klein Stahl
Call Number: J 920 Sch
ISBN: 9780399578861
Publication Date: 2016-09-27

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