Racial Tension Reading Plan

Kindergarten Books
Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds
Whoever You Are by Mem Fox
God Can You Hear Me? by Justine Simmons
1st Books
Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Lillians Right to Vote by Winter and Evans
The Gold Cadilac by Mildred. D. Taylor
2nd Grade
Chocolate Me by Taye Diggs
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
3rd grade:
Busting Brewster by Richard Michelson
Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? by
Sandy Lynn Holman
Skin Again by Bell Hooks
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
4th grade:
Desmond and the Very Mean Word by
Archbishop Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams
Friendship, Hope, and Apartheid in South
Africa by Phil Bildher
Mr. Lincoln's Way by Patricia Polacco
Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester
5th Grade
The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Cole
6th Grade
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine

Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood

7th Grade
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
8th Grade
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Monster by Walter Dean Myers

9th Grade
You Are Free by Danzy Senna
The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila
Stevenson
Black, White, Other by Joan Steinau Lester
10th Grade
Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pea
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain
11th grade
Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup
A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by
Ernest Gaines
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable
Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
by Mawi Asgedom
12th grade
Native Son by Richard Wright
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros