Friday Book Talk
by Margaret Daley | June 5, 2020
Book Recommendations

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