47,000 Beads
By: Koja Adeyoha
4.49
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing le…
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1. Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)
By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to… read more
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- fiction
"Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past."-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)
2. And Tango Makes Three
By: Henry Cole , Justin Richardson , Peter Parnell
4.30
Format: None pages,
In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others… read more
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- picture books
- childrens
- banned books
- lgbt
3. Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1)
By: Rodman Philbrick
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - … read more
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- childrens
- fiction
4. Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
By: Qin Leng , Chieri Uegaki
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written picture book, Hana Hashimoto has signed up to play her violin at her sc… read more
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5. Bastard Out of Carolina
By: Dorothy Allison
3.99
Format: 32 pages,
Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more
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6. When Dimple Met Rishi
By: Sandhya Menon
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break f… read more
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7. Suki's Kimono
By: Stéphane Jorisch , Chieri Uegaki
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Suki's favorite possession is her blue cotton kimono. A gift from her obachan, it holds special mem… read more
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8. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
9. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.69
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the his… read more
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- picture books
- childrens
10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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11. Rez Dogs
By: Joseph Bruchac
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more
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- native american
- childrens
- fiction
- indigenous
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs
12. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- gender
- queer
- banned books
- lgbt
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
13. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
14. Answers in the Pages
By: David Levithan
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from t… read more
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- queer
- childrens
- fiction
- lgbt
"We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us."-David Levithan, Answers in the Pages
15. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
- indigenous
"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
16. Pride
By: Ibi Zoboi
3.74
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring … read more
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- fiction
"Late June in Brooklyn is like the very beginning of a party-when the music is really good, but you know that it's about to get way better, so you just do a little two-step before the real turn-up sta…"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
"We have more space and less time. And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. We don't know the people who live across the …"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
"Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. And when something rings true or if I still have a question, I outline it w…"-Ibi Zoboi, Pride
17. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
18. Rick
By: Alex Gino
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own… read more
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- queer
- childrens
- fiction
- lgbt
"Dad says I’m a late bloomer.' 'Maybe. Or maybe you’re blooming now, and you’re just not the kind of flower he was expecting."-Alex Gino, Rick
19. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
By: Darcie Little Badger
4.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more
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- fiction
- queer
- indigenous
- lgbt
"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
20. Ojiichan's Gift
By: Chieri Uegaki
4.24
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
When Mayumi was born, her grandfather created a garden for her. It was unlike any other garden she … read more
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- picture books
- childrens
- fiction
21. Black Buck
By: Mateo Askaripour
3.71
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780358380887 For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wa… read more
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- fiction
"My teeth are status quo and powerful, also known as white and straight..."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"The day that changed my life was like every other day before it, except that it changed my life."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"The media feeds off of black blood like vampires. They want more of it, and they’ll pit us against each other jus’ to see it fly like firecrackers on the Fourth of July."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential for failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many…"-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
22. My Rainbow
By: Trinity Neal
4.28
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transg… read more
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- childrens
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- picture books
- queer
23. If You’re a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist
By: Gavin Grimm
4.36
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A celebratory and empowering story from young trans activist Gavin Grimm, two-time Stonewall Award-… read more
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- childrens
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- picture books
- queer
24. Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
By: Aimée Craft
4.44
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work toget… read more
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- picture books
- childrens
- indigenous
"The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them."-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
"…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty."-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
"Every person was born with a set of spiritual instructions or understandings, my girl. It’s what we do with it that defines us as human beings."-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
"By having the sun rise every day, the earth and the sky are renewing their commitment to work together. And we in turn honor that relationship and directly benefit from it."-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow
25. The Secret of the Ravens
By: Joanna Cacao
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this charming middle grade graphic novel, orphan twins Elliot and Liza find themselves taking on… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
- lgbt
26. 47,000 Beads
By: Koja Adeyoha
4.49
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing le… read more
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- childrens
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- picture books
- native american
- banned books
- indigenous
- fiction
- queer
27. One Sweet Song
By: Jyoti Rajan Gopal
4.27
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
In an ode to the power of music and community, this vibrantly illustrated picture book steps out on… read more
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- picture books
- childrens
28. Lia & Luís: Who Has More?
By: Ana Crespo
3.93
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! Twins Lia and Luís argue over who has … read more
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- picture books
- childrens
- fiction
29. The Palace of Eros
By: Caro De Robertis
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her temp… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
30. Om Child: I Am Well: Mind, Body, and Healthy Habits (Om Child, 4)
By: Lisa Edwards
3.71
Format: 18 pages, Board Book
Yoga has many benefits as an ancient Indian mind-and-body practice, and it’s never too early to sta… read more
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- childrens
31. Jamie Is Jamie: A Book About Being Yourself and Playing Your Way
By: Afsaneh Moradian
4.24
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
There are so many fun things to play with at Jamie’s new preschool— baby dolls to care for, toy car… read more
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- gender
- picture books
- childrens
- lgbt
