Civil Rights. Voting Rights.
Particular person Rights.
These are among the many points in our society the place individuals are moved past voicing opinions to “doing one thing” to affect change. Sadly, whereas they might appear “new” to our kids’s consciousness, these ills are usually not new to us. For higher or worse, since 2016, almost 100 Cybils-nominated books have centered round a social trigger, historic injustice, and/or folks decided to alter the world.
Younger readers need to perceive the problems and work for change, so it’s not a shock that books initially printed for adults are evolving to incorporate “Younger Readers Editions.” Instance: Cybils 2020 Excessive Faculty Nonfiction Winner Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi is a “remix of Kendi’s 2017 guide Stamped from the Starting: The Definitive Historical past of Racist Concepts in America, which gained the Nationwide Guide Award.”
Simply final month, an elementary-level model was printed: Stamped (For Youngsters): Racism, Antiracism, and You.
Whereas Stamped stands out as the most well known title, two different Cybils 2020 finalists additionally handle social points: Younger Grownup Fiction finalist Expensive Justyce by Nic Stone; and Center-Grade Nonfiction finalist The Speak: Conversations about Race, Love & Fact, edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Hudson.
The books chosen for this assortment are meant to supply historical past and heroism throughout an array of social points throughout audiences from elementary via highschool. As you may anticipate, the checklist skews closely towards non-fiction, however not solely. Value noting: This can be a consultant sampling of books nominated for the Cybils Awards by readers who believed they deserved award consideration. We welcome any further ideas within the feedback!
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists:
A Graphic Historical past of Girls’s Struggle for Their Propers by Mikki Kendall, illustrated by A. D’Amico
2020 Nominee |
Antiracist Child
by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
2020 Nominee |
Be the Change:
A Grandfather Gandhi Story Arun Gandhi
2016 Nominee |
Past Gender Binaries:
The Historical past of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender People (Historical past of the LGBTQ+ Rights Motion) by Rita Santos 2019 Nominee – Center Grade Nonfiction |
Expensive Justyce by Nic Stone 2020 Finalist |
Displacement
written and illustrated by Kiku Hughes 2020 Finalist |
Efrén Divided
by Ernesto Cisneros 2020 Finalist |
Unbelievable Failures:
True Tales of Individuals Who Modified the World by Falling Down First by Luke Reynolds
2108 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
Unbelievable Fugitives:
Criminals, Cutthroats, and Rebels Who Modified Historical past (Whereas on the Run!) Brianna DuMont
2016 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
A Few Crimson Drops:
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
2018 Nominee |
Struggle Like a Woman:
50 Feminists Who Modified the World Laura Barcella
2016 Nominee Excessive Faculty Nonfiction |
Ladies Resist!:
A Information to Activism, Management, and Beginning a Revolution by KaeLyn Wealthy
2018 Nominee |
In Actual Life
by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang 2014 Winner |
Jane Towards the World:
Roe v. Wade and the Struggle for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal 2020 FInalist |
A Woman Has the Ground:
Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Girls’s Rights by Kate Hannigan, illustrated by Alison Jay
2018 Nominee Elementary Nonfiction |
Locked Up for Freedom:
Civil Rights Protesters on the Leesburg Stockade by Heather E. Schwartz
2017 Finalist |
March (trilogy)
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell 2016 Winner Younger Grownup Graphic Novel (B00k 3) |
No Voice Too Small: 2020 Finalist |
One Individual, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Handled Equally
(YA version) 2019 Finalist |
Our Tales, Our Voices:
21 YA Authors Get Actual About Injustice, Empowerment, and Rising Up Feminine in America Amy Reed, ed.
2018 Nominee Excessive Faculty Nonfiction |
Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species
by
2020 Finalist |
Placing Peace First:
7 Commitments to Change the World
by Eric Dawson
2018 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
Queer, There, and In every single place:
23 Individuals Who Modified the World by Sarah Prager
2017 Finalist Excessive Faculty Nonfiction |
Racial Profiling: On a regular basis Inequality
by Alison Marie Behnke 2017 Nominee |
Resist! Peaceable Acts That Modified Our World
Written & illustrated by Diane Stanley
2020 Nominee Elementary Nonfiction |
Shaking Issues Up:
14 Younger Girls Who Modified the World Susan Hood
2018 Nominee Poetry |
Spring After Spring:
How Rachel Carson Impressed the Environmental Motion written and illustrated by Stephanie Roth Sisson
2018 Nominee |
Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folks Music, and the Path to Justice
written by Susanna Reich,
2017 Nominee Elementary Nonfiction |
The Speak: Conversations about Race, Love & Fact
Wade Hudson and Cheryl Hudson, eds. 2020 Finalist |
Votes for Girls!:
American Suffragists and the Battle for the Poll BY Winifred Conkling
2018 Finalist |
We Are Energy:
How Nonviolent Activism Modifications the World Hasak-Lowy, Todd
2020 Nominee Center Grade Nonfiction |
We Will Not Be Silent:
The White Rose Scholar Resistance Motion That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman 2016 Finalist |
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Younger Civil Rights Activist
written by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
2017 Nominee |
The Cybils Awards has an affiliate relationship with Amazon.com and Bookshop.org.
Purchases made via the hyperlinks on this web page can present revenue to our group.