8 best-selling poetry books like The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

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The Unboxing of a Black Girl

By: Angela Shanté

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfict…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Black Girl You Are Atlas book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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2. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • audiobook
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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5. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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6. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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7. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

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  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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9. Wild Dreamers

By: Margarita Engle

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring young adult romance from award-winning author Margarita Engle, love and conservati… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's Wild Dreamers book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
"As if moonlight has been transformed into music"

-Margarita Engle, Wild Dreamers

"Always say unhoused instead of homeless so i'll know that its temporary and not an intrinsic aspect of my character, but i'm pretty sure that when she drives home at the end of each day she returns t…"

-Margarita Engle, Wild Dreamers

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10. The Unboxing of a Black Girl

By: Angela Shanté

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfict… read more

Similar categories in Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Four Eids and a Funeral

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.71

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Mid-Air

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wa… read more

Similar categories in Alicia D. Williams's Mid-Air book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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14. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Free Period

By: Ali Terese

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

*National Book Award Longlist Title *School Library Journal Starred Review *Audiofile Earphones A… read more

Similar categories in Ali Terese's Free Period book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • audiobook
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16. Jupiter Rising

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.59

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Where Wolves Don't Die book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • audiobook
Cover of The Color of a Lie by Kim  Johnson

18. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Age 16

By: Rosena Fung

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing dow… read more

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20. It's Elementary

By: Elise Bryant

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too in… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's It's Elementary book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • audiobook
"The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter."

-Elise Bryant, It's Elementary

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21. Not About a Boy

By: Myah Hollis

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Euphoria meets Girl in Pieces in this coming-of-age story of a girl trying to put a grief-stricken … read more

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  • audiobook
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22. Louder Than Words

By: Ashley Woodfolk

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This amazing collaboration brings together two inspirational Black artists, NYT bestselling author … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

23. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

24. Kareem Between

By: Shifa Saltagi Safadi

4.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh grade Syrian-Amer… read more

Similar categories in Shifa Saltagi Safadi's Kareem Between book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • poetry
Cover of We Are Big Time by Hena Khan

25. We Are Big Time

By: Hena Khan

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

SWISH! Cheer courtside for a Muslim teen as she joins an all-girls, hijab-wearing basketball team a… read more

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26. Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

By: George M. Johnson

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essay… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pearl by Sherri L. Smith

27. Pearl

By: Sherri L. Smith

3.94

Format: None pages, None

In a beautifully crafted and captivating graphic novel from award-winning writer Sherri L. Smith an… read more

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28. How It All Ends

By: Emma Hunsinger

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Tara lives inside the nonstop adventure of her imagination. It’s far more enterta… read more

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29. Buffalo Dreamer

By: Violet Duncan

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family his… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Guava and Grudges by Alexis Castellanos

30. Guava and Grudges

By: Alexis Castellanos

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a world-famous pastry chef, but dreams have a cost. Her family … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan

31. Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back

By: Ruth Chan

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of New Kid and A First Time for Everything, a joyful and tearful debut middle grad… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Chan's Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back book and Angela Shanté's The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

24 Top audiobook books like The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl You Are Atlas

Renée Watson

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Tree. Table. Book.

Lois Lowry

4.39

Transform Your Habits

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

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16 best-selling fiction books like Age 16 by Rosena Fung

Transform Your Habits

The Worst Ronin

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Vera Brosgol

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Freshman Year

Sarah Mai

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Deep Dark

Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

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