Friday Book Talk

Children Picks

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• Separate Is Never Equal:  Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Ghost by Jason Reynolds
• We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
• Separate Is Never Equal:  Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Sit-In:  How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkey
• Frederick’s Journey: the life of Frederick Douglass

Teen Picks

• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• American Street by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
• Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
• I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Alexie Sherman
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Between the Lines by Nikki Grimes
• Another Day In the Death of America by Gary Younge
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas 

Adult Picks

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Sundown Towns by James Loewen
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Velvet Rope Economy by Nelson Schwartz
• Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle
• Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Truths we Hold by Kamala Harris
• White Kids by Margaret Hagerman