The books on this list would be great for use with a book club with a civics twist.
Middle grade
Young Adult
Middle grade
- Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus
- Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet by Barbara Dee
- Turn the Tide by Elaine Dimopoulos
- Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
- The First Rule of Climate Club by Carrie Firestone
- Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles
- Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino
- Nowhere Better Than Here by Sarah Guillory
- Revenge of the Red Club by Kim Harrington
- Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan
- Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King
- Me and Marvin Gardens by Amy Sarig King
- Linked by Gordon Korman
- Answers in the Pages by David Levithan
- From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks (whole series)
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
- The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed
- Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper
- Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
- Front Desk by Kelly Yang (whole series)
- A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser
Young Adult
- How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce
- Greta's Story by Valentina Camerini
- Kids Fight Climate Change: Act now to be a #2minutesuperhero by Martin Dorey
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices edited by Cheryl Hudson and Wade Hudson
- How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other (young readers’ edition) by Naomi Klein
- Dictionary for a Better World by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
- Girls Resist! by Kaelyn Rich
- Dear America: The story of an undocumented citizen (young readers' edition) by Jose Antonio Vargas
- The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (young readers’ edition) by Heather McGhee
- The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B Tyson
- Kent State by Deborah Wiles
- The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
- The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks (Revisioning History for Young People) by Brandy Colbert
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in America by Matthew Desmond
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi We already own the YA version
- March Trilogy by John Lewis Our copies are getting very well used
- Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly
- Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
- The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Act, and Die by Keith Payne
- How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
- Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court by Renee Newman Knake
- Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy by Eric Liu
- Drawing the Vote: The Illustrated Guide to the Importance of Voting in America by Tommy Jenkins, illustrated by Kati Lacker
- We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
- You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People by Elizabeth Rusch
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