5 must-read middle grade books like Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time…

"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

If you liked the middle grade plot in Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Crossover

By: Kwame Alexander

4.24

Format: 245 pages, ebook

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's The Crossover book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • middle grade
"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

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2. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • audiobook
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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3. Dear Martin

By: Nic Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Dear Martin book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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4. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more

Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • middle grade
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

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6. Lift Off

By: Melissa de la Cruz , Lamar Giles , Daniel José Older , Gene Luen Yang , Malinda Lo , Walter Dean Myers , Nicola Yoon , Eric Gansworth , Jason Reynolds , Sara Farizan , Thien Pham , None

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

The young adult anthology, Lift Off, is scheduled for release in Summer 2018 and will be edited by … read more

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7. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

8. Brown Girl Dreaming

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesme… read more

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9. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

Similar categories in Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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10. Punching the Air

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exo… read more

Similar categories in Ibi Zoboi's Punching the Air book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"They call it free time and it's the biggest lie because we are still here"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"This is the first time my feet are bound where the fuck am I supposed to run anyway"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"Blank Canvas I have a crayon and paper I didn't know that I could hold this little bit of freedom in my hands"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

"They believed those lies about me and made themselves a whole other boy in their minds and replaced me with him"

-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air

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11. Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • audiobook
"Who knew death must be so damn polite?"

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"All these lies that we've all swallowed, they're probably rotting in our stomachs."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

"I have my fingerprints all over you. & I don't need the world to see them to know that they're there."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

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12. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren’t Blue book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • banned books
  • audiobook
"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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13. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • middle grade
  • banned books
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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14. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

Similar categories in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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15. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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16. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)

By: Nic Stone

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the stunning and hard-hitting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, incarcerated … read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2) book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise."

-Nic Stone, Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)

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17. On the Come Up

By: Angie Thomas

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780062498564 can be found here. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants … read more

Similar categories in Angie Thomas's On the Come Up book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • audiobook
"All right now, y’all,"

-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

"That’s what we call our goal, the come up."

-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

"I'll always be my dad’s daughter if nothing else."

-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

"Done up. The good news? A lot rhymes with “done up."

-Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

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18. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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19. Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Sonja Cherry-Paul

4.39

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This chapter book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jaso… read more

Similar categories in Sonja Cherry-Paul's Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • banned books
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Look out, also, for the many powerful stories that depict us all as we truly are- human."

-Sonja Cherry-Paul, Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

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20. Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are in… read more

Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. We Don't Have Time for This

By: Brianna Craft

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lemonade Mouth meets climate change activism in this enemies-to-lovers YA romance. A tied election … read more

Similar categories in Brianna Craft's We Don't Have Time for This book and Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

  • social justice

16 Best audiobook books like Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Dashka Slater

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Ghost Boys

Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

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Transform Your Habits

Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds

4.25

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