8 must-read biography books like Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold …

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1. How to Become a Planet

By: Nicole Melleby

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorit… read more

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2. Swim Team

By: Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • sports
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3. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

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4. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

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  • historical
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6. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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8. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

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  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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10. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • sports
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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11. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

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12. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

By: Muhammad Najem

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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13. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

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  • sports
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14. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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15. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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16. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By: Susan Hood

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

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18. Falling Short

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more

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  • sports
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19. The Tryout (The Tryout #1)

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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20. The Golden Hour

By: Niki Smith

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that ge… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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21. Cracking the Bell

By: Geoff Herbach

3.79

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author … read more

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  • sports

5 Best historical books like Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

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The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith

4.46

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Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

Muhammad Najem

4.56

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Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

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Allergic

Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.25

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Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

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Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.17

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