8 must-read education books like Identity Affirming Classrooms: Spaces that Center Humanity by Erica Buchanan-Rivera

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Identity Affirming Classrooms: Spaces that Center Humanity

By: Erica Buchanan-Rivera

4.42

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how to create identity affirming classroom environments that honor the humanity of students. …

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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2. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

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"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

3. Inside Out & Back Again

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more

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4. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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7. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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8. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

By: Jayne Allen

3.91

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

The first novel in a captivating three-book series about modern womanhood, in which a young Black w… read more

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"Not yet, but people get what they don't deserve all of the time. Don't get so hung up on things that don't matter..."

-Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

"The attempted comforts around death are sometimes the worst part of the experience—the heaviness of the conversations, the expectations of sadness, and the careful word choices."

-Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

"Eles nunca haviam me oferecido nada antes, nenhuma ajuda com a faculdade, nada. Pelos comentários feitos depois que as filhas deles nasceram, tinha ficado muito claro para mim como os recursos seriam…"

-Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

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9. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

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"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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10. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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11. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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12. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

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13. Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the T… read more

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14. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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15. One of Our Own

By: Lucinda Berry

3.93

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge… read more

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16. Starfish

By: Lisa Fipps

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more

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"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

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17. The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more

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18. 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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19. 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

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20. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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21. When Clouds Touch Us

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #… read more

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22. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

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"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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23. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

By: Shane Safir

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more

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24. A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)

By: Judy I. Lin

3.61

Format: 352 pages, None

The enthralling conclusion to Judy I. Lin's Book of Tea duology—A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Ven… read more

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"The bond of family is a kind of magic all its own."

-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)

"To be human is to be vulnerable. To be human is to have more power than the gods will ever wield"

-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)

"We all believe we are the center of the universe, but we forget we are merely specks among the stars. Moving through the streams of possible futures, sometimes colliding."

-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)

"Magic does not belong to Shénnóng. It is not unique to one god or the other. Those are human terms, human rules. All magic is the same. It is only the vessel that shapes it."

-Judy I. Lin, A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea, #2)

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25. I Am You: A Book about Ubuntu

By: Refiloe Moahloli

4.35

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

We may be different, but our hearts beat the same. In southern Africa, there is a belief called … read more

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26. Literacy Is Liberation: Working Toward Justice Through Culturally Relevant Teaching

By: Kimberly N Parker

4.49

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Literacy is the foundation for all learning and must be accessible to all students. This fundamenta… read more

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27. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction

By: Gholdy Muhammad

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more

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28. Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership

By: Paul Gorski

4.51

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Six principles for leading unequivocally in ways that disrupt inequity at its roots. Fix Injustice,… read more

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29. Identity Affirming Classrooms: Spaces that Center Humanity

By: Erica Buchanan-Rivera

4.42

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how to create identity affirming classroom environments that honor the humanity of students. … read more

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30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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31. The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

By: Michelle MiJung Kim

4.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Waking Up to Our Capacity to Transform Ourselves and the World   As we become more aware of various… read more

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4.41

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4.27

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4.49

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